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Easing Physical Symptoms: It's Not Just Hospice Anymore

Palliative care provides important support for people living with serious or life-limiting illnesses and their family caregivers. In this course, you will learn to use symptom assessment tools to better understand which symptoms are present and which are most distressing. In subsequent weeks you will learn about some of the most common and distressing symptoms such as anorexia (loss of appetite), dyspnea (shortness of breath), fatigue (weakness), delirium(confusion) and constipation and nausea/vomiting. For each of these symptoms, you will learn about the underlying cause and potential ways to support people and their families to manage the symptoms with simple practical and non-medical approaches as well as a review of medications as appropriate. In addition, you will learn to help people with their emotional response to symptoms and loss of function. You will be able to immediately use these insights, skills, and tools in your work with people living with serious illness. In other courses, you will learn communication skills, whole person assessment, how to ease physical pain and explore ways to ease psycho-social-spiritual distress.

Status: Pain Management
Status: Nutrition and Diet
BeginnerCourse14 hours

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SJ

5.0Reviewed Feb 24, 2026

Very informative, clear and the real-life examples provided facilitate the deeper understanding...

RF

5.0Reviewed May 1, 2019

All instructors are amazing. Additional videos were very valuable.

RJ

5.0Reviewed May 9, 2020

Very Informative and Easy to Understand.Would highly recommend to everyone interested in end of life issues.

AA

5.0Reviewed Feb 23, 2019

A great and a very useful course. I like that we are taught about the medicine.

NA

5.0Reviewed Nov 22, 2021

This course is very interesting I am looking to learn about the advanced symptoms management

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