Palliative care education that accelerates your success
Advance your career with convenient, online coursework and evidence-based instruction. Health professionals looking to further their careers and organizations looking to develop their teams choose CSU Shiley Institute for Palliative Care. We offer exceptional CE and CME training guided by California State University’s best practices for adult learning.
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Physician Assistant Certificate in Palliative and Serious Illness Care
Learn evidence-based approaches essential to primary palliative care, including communication, advance care planning, prognostication, assessing, and treating common physical symptoms of serious illnesses, care at the end of life, and more.
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Free Course Offered in May to Celebrate National Nurses Week
Enroll in our self-paced What Every Nurse Needs to Know About Palliative Care course free for a limited time. Get a better understanding of palliative care, including which patients might benefit from it.
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Physician Assistants Pursue Larger Roles in Hospice and Palliative Care
The role of PAs in hospice and palliative care has been advancing over the past several years and is poised to keep growing, a great step in expanding access to palliative care to people who need it.
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Healing Through Art
Learn how creative self-expression promotes healing and how to guide others in art activities that help them ease anxiety, process grief, and build resilience.
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Keynote Speakers Announced for 2022 National Symposium
Legendary nurse, researcher, and innovator Jean Watson is among the inspiring clinicians and educators who will headline our 2022 National Symposium.
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Crucial Need to Expand Palliative Care in Rural Communities
Interest in palliative care appears to have grown during the pandemic, but one sector still lags: rural communities. The challenges in rural care delivery are significant, but so is the need, experts say.
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Coping With Moral Distress: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals
When you’re caring for people with serious illnesses, complex moral and ethical issues may arise that conflict with your beliefs about what’s right. This eBook examines the signs and symptoms of moral distress and provides key strategies to strengthen your personal resilience.
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Navigating Medical Cannabis Is Continuing Challenge in Hospice and Palliative Care
Medical cannabis continues to move into the mainstream across the United States, but in many places it’s a therapeutic option that patients with serious illnesses and their families must largely navigate on their own.
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We’re different
Unlike other palliative care career development programs that are either expensive in-person fellowships or short surface-level online courses, our programs are different. Our instructor-led courses rival the depth, richness, and rigor of in-person clinical training with the accessibility, flexibility, and convenience of online learning. Our interactive self-paced courses are full of evidence-based strategies you can immediately apply to your practice. Earn CE and CME credits, sharpen your skills, and advance your career from wherever you are.
Helping health professionals achieve
Find the learning path that’s right for you. We offer nearly 200 CE/CME online courses in palliative care and care management, with additional courses added periodically. Our courses and certificate programs apply to a variety of disciplines and areas of study. Whether you’re looking to improve serious-illness care or pursue hospice and palliative care certification, you’ve come to the right place to advance your career.
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Helping organizations succeed
We partner with healthcare organizations of all sizes to identify their strategic goals, so we can create customized education programs that meet quality metrics and desired outcomes with the overall goal of improving patient satisfaction and boosting staff resilience.
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Learning that fits your lifestyle
We understand that adding a training course to your already busy life can be challenging. We offer two convenient learning formats. Choose from interactive self-paced courses you can complete on your own schedule or in-depth instructor-led programs with small-group discussions and expert clinician guidance—all backed by the academic standards of California State University.
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Proven results.
Our students and alumni consistently praise the value of our education and recommend it to their peers. We’re proud of our record of success.
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Alumni met professional development goals
“I am so pleased to support a program that will ultimately benefit others the way I have been personally helped. My late husband’s experience with hospice and palliative care made me realize how specialized and important the field of palliative care is today and the growing need for such care in the future.”
