Expert Palliative Care Education for Clinicians in Any Practice Setting
Designed by an expert team of nationally recognized palliative care clinicians, this curriculum series delivers convenient and applicable tools designed for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners wishing to provide palliative care services for their patients.
Advanced Concepts in Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
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 course focuses on some of the most difficult emotional and spiritual aspects of...
Advanced Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
Effective communication is a cornerstone of quality palliative care. Communicating effectively with children, teens, and young adults with serious illness, and their families, requires a skilled approach that is attuned to the patient’s developmental age and stage.
This course explores topics...
Advanced Pediatric Care Delivery
This course explores the key clinical features of rare complex conditions seen in pediatric hospice and palliative care. Learn how you can help parents advocate for their child while recognizing the limits of medical interventions, and identifying medical and psychosocial...
Advanced Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
Assessing and managing pain is a fundamental part of high quality palliative care. There are important differences to consider when caring for infants, children, teens, or young adults. This self-paced course delivers robust clinical skills aimed at effectively assessing and...
Advanced Practice RN Certificate in Palliative Care
Transform your career. Learn evidence-based approaches in pain and symptom management to help support resilience and ease patients’ suffering. Help patients and families identify care goals of care. Build interdisciplinary teams.
Basic Pediatric Care Delivery
Many children, teens, and young adults with serious or life-limiting illness have been using medical devices since birth. Some pediatric patients may outgrow the need for such devices, while others will remain dependent on them throughout their lives.
This course examines...
Basic Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
Assessing and managing pain is a fundamental part of high quality palliative care and it requires a specialized approach when caring for infants, children, teens, or young adults. This course comprises four modules that highlight important considerations and effective clinical...
Care of the Patient at the End of Life
Caring for patients nearing end of life requires an increased level of knowledge and skills. This course delivers evidence-based tools and resources in prognostication, communication, and symptom management, helping you better identify and support these patients and their families. You’ll...
Communication and Advance Care Planning
Effective communication skills are essential to quality healthcare, and especially crucial for providers caring for patients with chronic or serious disease. This course delivers strategies for improving communication with patients and families while reducing barriers to effective communication about diagnosis,...
Communication Strategies for Shared and Informed Decision Making
Learn key strategies to enhance provider-patient communication, how to help patients understand where they are in the disease process, identify care goals, activate shared decision making, and more.
Cultural Aspects of Care
Widely ranging cultural backgrounds are present in most communities and frontline clinicians, including those in primary care and subspecialty practices, must be culturally aware on all levels. Serious illness presents even more complex challenges.
This course explores the cultural sensitivity tools,...
Foundational Pediatric Care Delivery
This self-paced course takes a deep dive into the differences between palliative care and hospice, and how they differ for adults and children. It reviews concurrent care for children, including how to identify patients who are eligible, exploring a wide...
Foundational Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
Assessing and managing pain in seriously ill infants, children, teens, or young adults is integral to high quality pediatric palliative care. This 7-hour course highlights key considerations and effective clinical strategies needed to address the physical symptoms of advanced illness...
Integrating Advance Care Planning Into Your Medical Practice
Advance care planning conversations help patients consider and document the treatment choices they would make if they could no longer speak for themselves. Such conversations are a routine part of healthcare, but guiding patients through them takes skill and a...
Integrating Palliative Care into Practice
Providers are responsible for running hectic office practices or specialty offices, seeing large volumes of patients with little time, and serving thousands of patients each year. Developing primary palliative care services can often enhance some care and services already being...
Introduction to Primary Palliative Care
This course delivers a clear and efficient overview of palliative care, how it’s delivered across a variety of settings, and how to identify patients who need it. You’ll explore the evidence base for palliative care, learn to identify common trajectories...
Physical Aspects of Care
This course equips providers in primary care, oncology, hematology, or other practice settings with the latest clinical strategies to effectively assess and manage pain and other distressing symptoms in patients with serious illnesses.
It includes in-depth content and guidelines on the...
PA Certificate in Palliative and Serious Illness Care
Learn evidence-based approaches essential to primary palliative care, including communication, advance care planning, prognostication, assessing, and treating common physical symptoms of serious illnesses, care at the end of life, and more.
