Course Topic: Communication and Advance Care Planning
Self-Care and Resilience
Gain expert skills in palliative care social work and learn how to navigate the diverse demands of your role, assess psychosocial distress, apply appropriate interventions to support patients and families, and emerge as a leader on a palliative care team.
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.
Gain a deeper understanding of motivational interviewing techniques and explore ways to integrate this method into your work with patients.
This self-paced, online education series explores concepts and strategies integral to pediatric palliative care to help hospice and palliative care clinicians expertly support young patients with serious illnesses and their families.
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.
Master the full-circle model of spiritual care in this 8-week, instructor-led course. Learn to support patient goals and quality of life, manage physical and spiritual pain, practice cultural humility, support religious differences, and more.