This course should be taken after the Symptom Management course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support, goals of care, and symptom management. You will explore transitions in care such as survivorship and hospice. You will learn how to create a survivorship care plan and how to best support a patient. The course also covers spiritual care and will teach you how to screen for spiritual distress. Finally, you will learn the requirements for hospice care and practice discussions difficult conversations related to end-of-life care.
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About this Course
We highly suggest taking the first two courses in Palliative Care Always before this course but it is not required as core concepts are reviewed.
What you will learn
Describe how a patient’s needs change as the prognosis changes
Identify the benefits of spiritual screening and assessment
Define survivorship and specific survivorship needs for patients
Define hospice care and how it differs from palliative care
Skills you will gain
- Survivorship
- Spiritual Distress
- Hospice
We highly suggest taking the first two courses in Palliative Care Always before this course but it is not required as core concepts are reviewed.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Introduction and Overview
Review of Palliative Care
Survivorship
Spiritual Care
Hospice Care
Final Steps
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