Stanford University
Palliative Care Always Specialization
Stanford University

Palliative Care Always Specialization

Integrate palliative care into your daily practice. Master complex communication skills and learn tools to screen for palliative needs and offer basic palliative care.

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Jan DeNofrio
Kavitha Ramchandran
Manuela Kogon

Instructors: Jan DeNofrio

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Specialization - 5 course series

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What you'll learn

  • The scope and role of palliative care as part of a patient and family's care plan

  • Components of a treatment plan for physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care, including screening, assessment and management of patient needs

  • Effective communication skills for responding to emotion, delivering difficult news, and discussing goals of care

  • Issues around transitions in care (e.g. survivorship or hospice transition)

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Specialization - 5 course series

Essentials of Palliative Care

Course 110 hours4.6 (62 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define the scope of palliative care and the roles of primary and specialist teams in comprehensive care for patients and families

  • Explain the components of an interdisciplinary patient treatment plan that includes physical, emotional, social and spiritual care

  • Discuss basic strategies for addressing psychosocial and relationship concerns in the context of serious illness

  • Engage in goals of care and advance care planning discussions with patients and families

Skills you'll gain

Category: patient-centered care
Category: Palliative Care
Category: Psychosocial Support
Category: Advance Care Planning

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

Course 29 hours4.5 (20 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Respond to the subjective experience of symptoms and side effects using assessment tools and communication skills

  • Conduct a pain assessment and provide basic pain management using medication and lifestyle modification

  • Describe several interventions to help with emotions and coping and the role the palliative care psychiatrist plays in caring for the patient

  • Define distress and common causes of emotional distress related to life-threatening illness

Skills you'll gain

Category: Survivorship
Category: Spiritual Distress
Category: Hospice

Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

Course 310 hours4.3 (15 ratings)

What you'll 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'll gain

Category: symptom management
Category: Communication
Category: patient-centered care
Category: Symptom Assessment

Supporting Families and Caregivers

Course 410 hours4.5 (25 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe several interventions to help with the emotions and coping of being a family member or caregiver of someone with serious illness.

  • Conduct a basic screen for appropriate adjustment in children.

  • Define caregiver burden and how to screen for it.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Caregiver Support
Category: Palliative Care
Category: Psychosocial Support
Category: Child Guidance

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

Course 513 hours4.4 (14 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain the scope of palliative care in comprehensive care for patients and families to a variety of audiences.

  • Outline ways to manage stress and nurture one's physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in a care plan.

  • Provide coping mechanisms or other methods to support patients and families.

  • Practice demonstrating empathy and compassion via a virtual or remote communication.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication
Category: Goals of Care/ACP
Category: Self-Care
Category: Palliative Care
Category: Psychosocial Support

Instructors

Jan DeNofrio
Stanford University
5 Courses7,082 learners
Kavitha Ramchandran
Stanford University
5 Courses7,082 learners

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