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There are 6 modules in this course
The Palliative Care Always Capstone course is designed to let you test your knowledge about palliative and help others understand the value of palliative care, while showing your creative side. In this course, you will impact community awareness about palliative care, promote self-care and wellness, show-off your communication skills in a virtual environment, and finish the course off by proving your thoughts on ways to offer psychosocial support to a patient and family.
This module will introduce you to the exercises and projects you will be creating over the next four weeks. You will also explore how your opinion of palliative care has changed over the course of this specialization.
What's included
1 reading1 assignment
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1 reading•Total 2 minutes
Overview•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
Personal Reflection•15 minutes
Advocating for Palliative Care
Module 2•5 hours to complete
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This module focuses on creative ways to help your community, workplace, or family and friends learn what palliative care is, who can benefit, and how.
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1 peer review
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1 peer review•Total 300 minutes
Creative Communication•300 minutes
Promoting Self-Care and Wellness
Module 3•2 hours to complete
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In this module, we explore self-care and wellness. You’ve learned about compassion fatigue, burnout and caregiver burden in the previous courses, now it is time to create an action plan.
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1 peer review
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1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
Promoting Wellness•120 minutes
Communication Skills
Module 4•4 hours to complete
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Now we want to get back to basics with communication skills. Covid-19 has dramatically changed the way we interact with patients, family and friends. Many people have appointments now by phone or online. Families and friend often have to support each other remotely. This new way of interacting can make non-verbal communication and demonstrating empathy more difficult. In this module, you will explore virtual ways to “put a hand on another's shoulder to show support”.
What's included
1 reading3 discussion prompts
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1 reading•Total 120 minutes
Exercise Introduction•120 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 90 minutes
Conversation 1: Incurable Cancer•30 minutes
Conversation 2: Emotional Assessment•30 minutes
Conversation 3: Talking to a friend•30 minutes
Psychosocial Support for the Patient and Family
Module 5•3 hours to complete
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This module explores distress – emotional and psychosocial, and coping with that distress.
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1 peer review
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1 peer review•Total 150 minutes
Support beyond the Patient•150 minutes
Final Thoughts
Module 6•5 minutes to complete
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This module recaps the key learnings of the specialization Palliative Care Always.
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1 reading
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1 reading•Total 5 minutes
Specialization Summary•5 minutes
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