Pediatric Team Support – Pediatric Palliative Care Training

Pediatric Team Support

This 6 CE hour, self-paced online course supports hospice and palliative care professionals in their efforts to become effective, high-functioning, collaborative teams that deliver the best care possible to young patients with serious or life-limiting illness and their families.  

Why Take This Course?

Interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary teams are the gold standard of palliative care. Yet these teams can be vulnerable to dysfunction arising when infants, children, teens, and young adults experience intense suffering caused by serious or life-limiting illness. Team dysfunction can create fear of conflict and absence of trust, and can distract providers from giving comprehensive, thorough care.

This course provides the knowledge, tools, and resources to help hospice and palliative care teams create a culture in which all members can flourish in their work. Topics covered include creating a foundation of trust, willingness and tools to address conflict, a strong commitment to the work and to each other, and the ability to put aside individual egos and need for status so that the team can achieve their shared goals.

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 all members of the hospice or palliative care team – including RNs, NPs, APRNs, PAs, physicians, social workers, chaplains – and other clinicians and therapists who care for young patients with serious illness and their families and/or want to specialize in pediatric palliative care. 

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Fast Facts

Begins:	Immediately upon registration
Is taught:	Completely online and is available 24/7
Offers:	6 Continuing Education Hours
Costs:	$89
Requires:	Computing skills sufficient to complete graduate work, access to a computer with an Internet connection
Is ideal for:	Nurse Practitioners, APRNS, RNs, PAs, physicians, social workers, chaplains, and other members of the hospice or palliative care team who want to build their skills in providing palliative care to pediatric patients and their families
Cancellation Policy:	There are no refunds on our self-paced courses

Course Description

This course comprises three modules that demonstrate how to identify, build, and sustain effective high-functioning interdisciplinary teams, which are critical in caring for pediatric palliative care patients and their families and supporting the wellbeing and resilience of team members.

Modules and topics covered include:

Pediatric Palliative Care Teams

This module examines the:

• Rationale for developing effective teams in healthcare
• Characteristics of high-functioning teams
• Drawbacks of competitiveness versus the benefits of collaboration
• Reasons interdisciplinary teams have been recognized as the primary delivery method for quality palliative care
• Types of team support and the characteristics of “good enough” teams
• Ways to assess and solve these dysfunctions

Building a Pediatric Palliative Care Team

By the end of this module, learners will:

• Understand the fundamental strategies for building a pediatric palliative care (PPC) team
• List, define, and explain the most common barriers to effective PPC team outcomes, including communication breakdowns, insufficient time, geographic complaints, hierarchical organizational structure, and muddled team member roles

Sustaining a Pediatric Palliative Care Team

This module explores the importance of:

• Trust in team building and the roles vulnerability and authenticity play in developing trust
• Embracing conflict and how conflict can improve and benefit a team
• Proper ways of handling conflict
• Accountability and communication
• Strategies that support team needs

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

Glen Komatsu, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Providence TrinityCare Hospice and Regional Palliative Care  

Denise Hess, MA, MDiv, Chaplain at Providence St. Joseph Health and Executive Director of the Supportive Care Coalition

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