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Palliative Care Courses & Education
CSUSM Extended Learning offers high-quality, online palliative care education for healthcare professionals through our partnership with the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care. All courses are delivered online, providing flexible learning options for busy professionals. We offer both instructor-led cohorts and self-paced courses, with continuing education hours awarded upon completion.

Preparing all Case Managers to Succeed
Explore our online case management courses on our sister website, Care Excellence. Choose from dozens of targeted modules and courses to train and retain the best case managers, supervisors, and leadership. These courses are designed for nurse case managers, social work case managers, and all care managers and care coordinators.
Empowering your staff
As a California State University institute, we provide innovative palliative care education, delivered through a state-of-the-art online learning platform with customized programs and top-tier instructional support tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
Partnering with us couldn’t be easier. We collaborate closely with our corporate clients to understand their vision, assess their needs, deliver convenient and effective distance-learning solutions, and help measure results.
Adapting to Your Needs
Our instructor-led courses offer students rigorous content and personalized feedback that rivals clinical programs, all with the convenience and flexibility of online learning. Class sizes are limited, so students receive quality, personalized instruction. Students complete weekly lessons on their own schedule, participate in online discussions with their peers, and get guidance from their instructor on practical ways to apply their new skills.
Our self-paced courses allow students to work on their own time and schedule. Based on the latest research and skill-building practices, our courses are delivered through a state-of-the-art learning platform with interactive features designed to reinforce learning and retention.
Custom Training
- Special packaging and group pricing of all available courses
- Dedicated instructor-led courses reserved for your employees
- Custom-developed online or in-person training designed for your unique needs
- Courses customized to reflect your organization’s practices and policies
- Supplemental toolkits for team leaders and managers to reinforce staff learning
Building Strategic Skills
We offer convenient and effective workforce education programs designed to empower your team to deliver the best patient-centered care for individuals with serious illnesses.
Our self-paced and instructor-led courses deliver real-world clinical skills for nurses, social workers, physicians, chaplains, and other health professionals, helping employers build staff resilience, improve care delivery, boost quality metrics, and achieve operational goals.
Our customized training solutions deliver flexible, affordable, targeted learning that supports your employees and helps your organization meet strategic benchmarks.
Defining Excellence
Our online courses are packed with interactive exercises, evidence-based tools and resources, case studies, and other strategies designed to expertly engage adult learners and reinforce retention. Courses are tailored to help nurses, social workers, physicians, chaplains, and other busy health professionals make a measurable impact on care delivery.
Yielding Results
Research shows companies with strong staff development programs reap multiple benefits, including better employee retention, increased job satisfaction, and enhanced team performance. All are vital for healthcare organizations that care for people with serious illnesses. We are devoted to helping you reach your goals.