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Billing for Advance Care Planning Conversations
This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned in the course.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Facilitating an Advance Care Planning Conversation
This 1-hour course delivers strategies for conducting advance care planning discussions with patients and families by focusing on their goals and what matters most to them. Learn when and how to confidently begin advance care planning conversations, and apply concepts and skills through interactive activities.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Working with POLST for Professionals
Developed in partnership with the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, this course helps health professionals understand the role and value of this document, and how to use it when documenting and honoring patient wishes.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Effective Advance Care Planning Fundamentals
Core Concepts in Palliative Care - All Health Professionals
The Evidence for Nutrition in Palliative Care
Learn about nutritional therapies in palliative care, including supportive nutrition, nutrition screening vs. assessment, the underlying dynamics of food-drug interactions, and how nutrition affects common symptoms of serious illness.
Cost: $76
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Food is Medicine Series - Nutrition in Palliative Care
For people with chronic or serious illness, good nutrition is an essential part of holistic palliative care. Developed by nutrition experts, with generous support from The Westreich Foundation, this two-course series explores the latest research and offers practical approaches for using nutrition to improve quality of life in any stage of illness. Purchase the full series or individual courses.
Cost: $109
Course Length: 5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Palliative Care for Care Managers
The Business Case for Palliative Care
Palliative care has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, reduce unnecessary readmissions, and lower costs for many hospitals and health systems. Clinical and administrative leaders need a framework for evaluating data that shows how palliative care services impact their organization.
Developed by a nationally recognized team of clinicians and analysts, this course provides a roadmap for gathering the data needed to make the case for creating, sustaining, or expanding your palliative care services.
Cost: $252
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Aromatherapy in Palliative Care
Applying Motivational Interviewing Techniques and Interventions in Palliative Care
What Every Health Professional Needs to Know About Palliative Care
Understanding Food Choices and Chronic or Complex Illness
In this course, you'll explore the role of nutrition in palliative care, the importance of food quality, how social determinants of health affect accessibility to healthy food options, and strategies for using healthy food choices to connect families to their culture and identity.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 2 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Pediatric Ethical Principles and Challenges
Foundational Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
In pediatric palliative care, honest, respectful, and open communication is essential to supporting children, teens, and young adults and their families, and to providing quality, compassionate care.
This course explores how to determine the right time for an initial home visit with a pediatric patient and family, help care for other children who may be present, build rapport with young patients and families, and have difficult conversations.
Cost: $65
Course Length: 4 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Foundational Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
The progressive illness or impending death of an infant, child, teen, or young adult can cause profound grief in the patient as well as the family. This self-paced online course prepares hospice and palliative care professionals to recognize and address the emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering of children, teens, and young adults nearing the end of life and their families.
Cost: $120
Course Length: 8 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Introduction to Pediatric Palliative Care
This course introduces you to the challenges, benefits, and value of pediatric palliative care and offers a starting point for building skills to effectively support infants, children, teens, or young adults with serious illness, and their families.
Cost: $39
Course Length: 5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Multidisciplinary Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care Series
Designed for social workers, chaplains, child life specialists, and other team members, our Pediatric Palliative Care Certificate curriculum features rigorous, interactive online education for hospice, palliative care, and home health professionals to get the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support infants, children, teens, and young adults with serious illnesses.
Cost: $549
Course Length: 37.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Pediatric Team Support
Basic Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
This course describes the challenges and joys of communicating with pediatric patients and their families, demonstrates how evidence-based communication tools can be applied in those populations, and reinforces how genuine communication is key in adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online
Self-Care and Resilience
This course provides practical tools and resources to help healthcare professionals recognize the warning signs of moral distress, identify their own beliefs and habits that may lead to burn-out or compassion fatigue, and utilize practical strategies for self-care and resilience-building.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Basic Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
Billing for Advance Care Planning Conversations CME
This online course explores strategies to encourage patient participation in advance care planning conversations. Case studies illustrate how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used in various scenarios, followed by an interactive exercise to help students apply the knowledge learned in the course.
Cost: $54
Course Length: 1 Hour
Format: Self-paced, Online
Excellence in Interprofessional Palliative Care Documentation
Explore discipline-specific and team-focused strategies for ensuring that your documentation facilitates communication and supports effective and productive relationships within the team and referral sources. If you are looking to build a more cohesive team and improve documentation and referral processes, this course is for you.
Cost: $186
Course Length: 3 Hours
Format: Self-paced, Online