Easing Suffering – Basic Pediatric Palliative Care Training

Basic Concepts in Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients

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 1 CE hour course focuses on supporting those who are grieving, as well as creating legacy, which is important for children and adolescents who are living with life-threatening illnesses and need to know they are loved and will be remembered.

Why Take This Course?

Families who experience the pain of losing a child to terminal illness know that grief does not begin at death – it begins at the time of diagnosis. This course offers insights into the journey of chronic grief that young patients and their families often experience and outlines strategies that hospice and palliative care practitioners can employ to provide support.

This course can be taken on its own or as part of these comprehensive programs:

• Certificate in Clinical Pediatric Palliative Care – 66 CEs
• Multidisciplinary Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care – 37.5 CEs

 Who Should Take This Course?

This course is ideal for RNs, NPs, APRNs, physician assistants, physicians, social workers, chaplains, and other members of pediatric teams or hospice, palliative care, or home health teams who want the knowledge and skills to best support pediatric patients with serious illness and families.

Course Information

Fast Facts

Begins:	Immediately upon registration
Is taught:	Completely online and is available 24/7
Offers:	1 Continuing Education Hour
Costs:	$45
Requires:	Computing skills sufficient to complete graduate work, access to a computer with an Internet connection
Is ideal for:	Nurse Practitioners, APRNS, RNs, physicians, physician assistants, social workers, chaplains, child life specialists, therapists and others on the hospice, palliative care, or home health teams who want to build skills necessary to support pediatric patients and families
Cancellation Policy:	There are no refunds on our self-paced courses

Course Description

This course comprises two modules that focus on supporting grieving children, teens, and young adults with serious illness, and their families:

Bereavement Support

This module prepares learners to:

• Understand the chronic nature of grief for those impacted by the illness and death of a child
• Assess bereavement support needs of parents and other adult family members
• Apply recommended methods that help meet those needs
• Differentiate the unique bereavement needs of children
• Use age-appropriate techniques to provide support

Evolving Creation of Legacy

This module equips learners to:

• Understand perceptions about legacy and how they may differ within families
• Assess individual patient and family needs regarding the creation of legacy
• Integrate such needs into the plan of care
• Describe options for creating keepsakes

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

The Institute’s Pediatric Palliative Care curriculum was developed by expert clinicians in pediatric palliative care from leading children’s hospitals and hospice programs, with support from:

• Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition/Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
• Providence TrinityCare Hospice and Trinity KidsCare

COURSE AUTHOR

Susan Montgomery, RN, BSN, MA, a medical writer whose clinical career as a registered nurse included caring for children and adults in both critical care and hospice. She is the former Director of Interdisciplinary Practice at Suncoast Hospice.

COURSE REVIEWERS

Rev. Kathleen Ennis-Durstine, MDiv, BCC, Senior Chaplain/Manager, Children’s National Health System, and faculty member of the Pediatric Chaplains Institute.

Rev. Mark Bartel, MDiv, BCC, Chaplain Manager, Spiritual Care, Arnold Palmer Medical Center, Orlando Health, and faculty member of the Pediatric Chaplains Institute.

Course Information