Advance Care Planning: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

Can Palliative Care Be Provided Entirely From Afar?

Palliative care is a humanistic, patient-centric form of healthcare that includes medical, emotional, and other supportive services for people who are confronting the impacts of a serious illness in many areas of their lives. Some have even called it “hand-holding,” although it involves much more than that.

3-by-3 for Effective Advance Care Planning/Directives

You’ll be hearing a lot all April about National Health Care Decisions Day (April 16) and the importance of doing your advance care planning and completing your advance medical directives. So here’s my wiki on advance care planning/directives, born of 20 years of study and teaching, giving and taking professional guidance, being a patient and a family member of patients many times over.

Palliative Care Education Scholarships Available for San Diego County Health Professionals 

To recognize National Health Care Decisions Day (April 16), the California State University Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care is offering $19,000 in scholarships to San Diego County health professionals seeking convenient, high-quality, online palliative care education.

Medical Cannabis Course Offers Information for Palliative Care Clinicians

As interest and use of cannabis-derived products for treating symptoms of illness grow across the country, hospice and palliative care practitioners are increasingly looking to understand how these products fit into the palliative approach for treating symptoms of serious illness.