Course Format: Self-Paced
This course explores the fundamentals of palliative care and delivers a number of tools to help PAs improve care delivery for patients with serious illnesses. Learn how to assess the need for palliative care, delivering bad news, and understand advance care planning.
Understand the role of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) process and how to appropriately use it for patients with advanced illnesses.