Palliative care education for all health professionals

Explore convenient palliative care education designed for professionals in any setting. Learn online and on your own time.

Beyond Cultural Humility: Diversity, Inclusivity, and Navigating Bias in Care

Groups and Teams, Interdisciplinary Teams, All Professionals
Learners enrolled in this course explore aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion to develop self-awareness and build professional skills that promote a safe and welcoming workplace environment.

Excellence in Interprofessional Palliative Care Documentation

All Professionals
Explore discipline-specific and team-focused strategies for ensuring that your documentation facilitates communication and supports effective and productive relationships within the team and referral sources. If you are looking to build a more cohesive team and improve documentation and referral processes,...

Telemedicine Skills for Clinicians

Groups and Teams, Interdisciplinary Teams, All Professionals
In the era of COVID-19, the world of healthcare—including palliative care—experienced a sudden shift in how care is delivered: Almost overnight, clinicians across sectors and settings migrated their patient encounters online. As a result, a significant portion of healthcare encounters...

Self-Care and Resilience

All Professionals
Self-care and building resilience is essential for clinicians working with seriously ill patients—it guards against burnout, moral distress, and team dysfunction. This course provides practical tools and resources to help healthcare professionals recognize the warning signs of moral distress, identify...

Applying Motivational Interviewing Techniques and Interventions in Palliative Care

All Professionals
Gain a deeper understanding of motivational interviewing techniques and explore ways to integrate this method into your work with patients.

Aromatherapy in Palliative Care

All Professionals
Aromatherapy, or the use of essential oils to promote well-being, has a growing base of research in modern health care. Learn how aromatherapy can support palliative care patients and their families.

Basic Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support

All Professionals
Hospice and palliative care professionals work with many types of families in crisis and grief. Yet, even experienced clinicians may feel anxious when delivering care to infants, children, teens, or young adults. This course describes the challenges and joys of communicating...

Basic Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients

All Professionals
The progressive illness and/or impending death of an infant, child, teen, or young adult can cause profound grief in the patient as well as the family. This course focuses on supporting those who are grieving and explores the importance of...

Billing for Advance Care Planning Conversations

All Professionals
This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned...

Core Concepts in Palliative Care – All Health Professionals

Groups and Teams, Interdisciplinary Teams, All Professionals
This course provides all health professionals with a common framework to understand palliative care and equips them with essential tools to implement a unified, holistic, and patient-centered care plan.

Effective Advance Care Planning Fundamentals

All Professionals
Advance care planning empowers patients to identify what gives their life meaning and articulate the kind of healthcare treatments they would want, or not want, if a catastrophic event or illness leaves them unable to speak for themselves. This course provides...

Facilitating an Advance Care Planning Conversation

All Professionals
This 1-hour course delivers strategies for conducting advance care planning discussions with patients and families by focusing on their goals and what matters most to them. Learn when and how to confidently begin advance care planning conversations, and apply concepts and skills through interactive activities.

Food is Medicine Series – Nutrition in Palliative Care

All Professionals
Good nutrition is an essential part of holistic palliative care. This self-paced series explores the latest research, and teaches practical skills and approaches for using nutrition to improve quality of life at any stage of illness.

Foundational Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support

All Professionals
In pediatric palliative care, honest, respectful, and open communication is essential to supporting children, teens, and young adults and their families, and to providing quality, compassionate care. This course explores how to determine the right time for an initial home visit...

Foundational Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients

All Professionals
The progressive illness or impending death of an infant, child, teen, or young adult can cause profound grief in the patient as well as the family. This self-paced online course prepares hospice and palliative care professionals to recognize and address...

Healing Through Art

All Professionals
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.

Introduction to Pediatric Palliative Care

All Professionals
Pediatric palliative care differs from palliative care for adults, especially as the end of life approaches. These differences affect not only patients and families, but the hospice and palliative care professionals delivering care. This course introduces you to the challenges, benefits,...

Multidisciplinary Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care

Social Workers, All Professionals
While palliative care is designed to ease suffering in patients at any age and stage of serious illness, caring for pediatric patients differs significantly from palliative care for adults and requires an extra level of skill. Designed for social workers, chaplains,...