Learn the fundamentals of palliative care and enhance skills that help you build stronger and supportive connections with seriously ill patients and their families.

Ethics play an important role in all areas of healthcare and can present unique challenges in pediatric palliative care where healthcare decision making and family dynamics may be more complex. These factors, and the emotional toll of caring for a...

Interdisciplinary teams are the cornerstone of palliative care, but can be vulnerable to challenges that arise when patients experience intense suffering caused by serious or life-limiting illness. Those issues can be heightened when the patient is a child, creating fear...

Palliative care has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, reduce unnecessary readmissions, and lower costs for many hospitals and health systems. Clinical and administrative leaders need a framework for evaluating data that shows how palliative care services impact their organization. Developed...

Food choices have a significant impact on health and wellbeing at every stage of life. Learn about nutritional therapies in palliative care, including supportive nutrition, nutrition screening vs. assessment, the underlying dynamics of food-drug interactions, and how nutrition affects common...

Food choices have a significant impact on health and well being at every stage of life. For people with chronic or serious illness, good nutrition is an essential part of holistic palliative care. In this course, you’ll explore the role of...

Learn more about the principles of palliative care, the typical composition of the palliative care team, ways to identify patients who can benefit from palliative care, and key concepts in 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.