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  • Advanced Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
  • Fee: $87.00
    CE Hours: 5.5
     

    Effective communication is a cornerstone of quality palliative care. Communicating effectively with children, teens, and young adults with serious illness, and their families, requires a skilled approach that is attuned to the patient’s developmental age and stage. This course explores topics central to communicating with young patients and their families, including clarifying goals and values to facilitate decision making, responding to families that wish to limit information to young patients, and managing conflict.


 

  • Advanced Concepts in Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
  • Fee: $120.00
    CE Hours: 4.5
     

    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 course focuses on some of the most difficult emotional and spiritual aspects of caring for young patients at the end of life, including transference and countertransference, trauma-informed care, types of grief, caring for diverse families, and empowering patients and families in end-of-life decision making.


 

  • Advanced Pediatric Care Delivery
  • Fee: $65.00
    CE Hours: 2
     

    This course explores the key clinical features of rare complex conditions seen in pediatric hospice and palliative care. Learn how you can help parents advocate for their child while recognizing the limits of medical interventions, and identifying medical and psychosocial resources for families of children with rare/complicated diagnoses.


 

  • Advanced Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
  • Fee: $138.00
    CE Hours: 8.5
     

    Assessing and managing pain is a fundamental part of high quality palliative care. There are important differences to consider when caring for infants, children, teens, or young adults. This self-paced course delivers robust clinical skills aimed at effectively assessing and managing physical pain and understanding psychosocial factors that can impact physical suffering in seriously ill or terminally ill infants, children, teens, and young adults


 

 

  • Basic Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1.5
     

    Hospice and palliative care professionals work with many types of families in crisis and grief. Yet, even experienced clinicians may feel anxious when delivering care to infants, children, teens, or young adults. 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.


 

  • Basic Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
  • Fee: $50.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    The progressive illness and/or impending death of an infant, child, teen, or young adult can cause profound grief in the patient as well as the family. This course focuses on supporting those who are grieving and explores the importance of creating legacy so children and adolescents living with life-threatening illnesses know they will be remembered.


 

  • Basic Pediatric Care Delivery
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1.5
     

    Many children, teens, and young adults with serious or life-limiting illness have been using medical devices since birth. Some pediatric patients may outgrow the need for such devices, while others will remain dependent on them throughout their lives. This course examines the use of medical technology such as feeding tubes, central lines, and respiratory devices in young patients with serious illness. It covers how to maintain these devices, and how to support patients and families in device management.


 

  • Basic Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
  • Fee: $65.00
    CE Hours: 4
     

    Assessing and managing pain is a fundamental part of high-quality palliative care and it requires a specialized approach when caring for infants, children, teens, or young adults. This course comprises four modules that highlight important considerations and effective clinical strategies in assessing and managing pain in infants, children, teens, and young adults.


 

  • Billing for Advance Care Planning Conversations
  • Fee: $55.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    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.


 

  • Billing for Advance Care planning Conversations CME
  • Fee: $55.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    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.


 

  • Care of the Patient at the End of Life
  • Fee: $164.00
    CE Hours: 4
     

    Caring for patients nearing end of life requires an increased level of knowledge and skills. This course delivers evidence-based tools and resources in prognostication, communication, and symptom management, helping you better identify and support these patients and their families. You’ll also learn about regulatory and ethical issues, as well as hospice eligibility, coverage, and admission.


 

  • Communication and Advance Care Planning
  • Fee: $109.00
    CE Hours: 3
     

    Effective communication skills are essential to quality healthcare, and especially crucial for providers caring for patients with chronic or serious disease. This course delivers strategies for improving communication with patients and families while reducing barriers to effective communication about diagnosis, prognosis and serious illness.


 

  • Core Concepts in Palliative Care - Nurses
  • Fee: $435.00
    CE Hours: 17
     

    Developed for nursing professionals, this self-paced course delivers an in-depth overview of palliative care nursing, and provides practical tools and strategies to enhance your practice and effectiveness in caring for seriously-ill patients and families in any care setting.


 

  • Effective Advance Care Planning Fundamentals CME
  • Fee: $55.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    Advance care planning empowers patients to identify what gives their life meaning and articulate the kind of healthcare treatments they would want, or not want, if a catastrophic event or illness leaves them unable to speak for themselves. This course provides a comprehensive overview of advance care planning that can be used to orient and train all staff regarding the importance of documenting care preferences.


 

  • Facilitating an Advance Care Planning Conversation CME
  • Fee: $55.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    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.


 

  • Foundational Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
  • Fee: $120.00
    CE Hours: 8
     

    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.


 

  • Foundational Pediatric Care Delivery
  • Fee: $87.00
    CE Hours: 5.5
     

    This self-paced course takes a deep dive into the differences between palliative care and hospice, and how they differ for adults and children. It reviews concurrent care for children, including how to identify patients who are eligible, exploring a wide range of pediatric diagnoses, common medical devices used in children with serious illness, and important elements of care coordination.


 

  • Foundational Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
  • Fee: $109.00
    CE Hours: 7
     

    Assessing and managing pain in seriously ill infants, children, teens, or young adults is integral to high quality pediatric palliative care. This 7-hour course highlights key considerations and effective clinical strategies needed to address the physical symptoms of advanced illness in young patients, including patients with medically complex conditions.


 

  • Introduction to Pediatric Palliative Care
  • Fee: $39.00
    CE Hours: 0.5
     

    Pediatric palliative care differs from palliative care for adults, especially as the end of life approaches. These differences affect not only patients and families, but the hospice and palliative care professionals delivering 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


 

  • PA Certificate in Palliative and Serious Illness Care
  • Fee: $1,595.00
    Dates: 5/1/2025 - 7/27/2025
    Times: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
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    Learn evidence-based approaches essential to caring for patients with serious illness, including communication, advance care planning, prognostication, assessment and treatment of common physical and psycho-social-spiritual symptoms of serious illnesses, care at the end of life, and more.

    Students enrolling in this course should be PA's in any specialty or practice area. Students must attend at least 9 of 12 live Grand Rounds Sessions, Wednesdays, 12:00PM to 1:30PM Pacific time. 

     


 

  • Pediatric Ethical Principles and Challenges
  • Fee: $98.00
    CE Hours: 6.5
     

    Ethics play an important role in all areas of healthcare and can present unique challenges in pediatric palliative care where healthcare decision-making and family dynamics may be more complex. These factors, and the emotional toll of caring for a child experiencing life-limiting illness, can lead to ethical dilemmas and cause moral distress. This course examines the complex ethical concerns that hospice and palliative care professionals may encounter and delivers important strategies to build


 

  • Transforming Communication with Motivational Interviewing: A Primer for Pediatric Palliative Care Clinicians Jan 16
  • Pediatric Webinar Series 2025
  • Fee: $0.00
  • CE Hours: 1
    Dates: 1/16/2025 

 

  • Physical Aspects of Care
  • Fee: $219.00
    CE Hours: 6
     

    This course equips providers in primary care, oncology, hematology, or other practice settings with the latest clinical strategies to effectively assess and manage pain and other distressing symptoms in patients with serious illnesses. It includes in-depth content and guidelines on the use of opioids, as well as integrative and complementary therapies that can ease symptom burden along the disease trajectory.


 

  • Primary Palliative Care Skills for Every Provider
  • Fee: $879.00
    CE Hours: 24.5
     

    This series of interactive online courses gives clinicians in any practice setting new skills and resources that can improve the quality of care delivered to patients with serious illnesses. You’ll learn new clinical approaches in pain and symptom management, as well strategies for improving communication, empowering patients in healthcare decision making, integrating key palliative care services into your practice, and billing for palliative care.


 

  • Self-Care and Resilience
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    Self-care and building resilience are essential for clinicians working with seriously ill patients—it guards against burnout, moral distress, and team dysfunction. 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.


 

  • Social Aspects of Care
  • Fee: $109.00
    CE Hours: 3
     

    Living with serious illness can be stressful for patients and families. Addressing psychosocial distress is critical to supporting patients and families through the journey of serious illness, and delivering quality whole-person care. Explore strategies and skills to assess how patients are coping with disease management and prognosis, and processing the prospect of dying.


 

  • Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1.5
     

    Living with a serious illness often changes the way individuals experience their world. Faith and spirituality can emerge as important elements of a person’s care plan. This course helps you develop an approach to identify, evaluate, and address spiritual, religious, and existential concerns, and presents assessment tools and strategies for coping, and referral guidelines to intertwine quality healthcare with spiritual care.


 

  • What Every PA Needs to Know About Palliative Care
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    Physician assistants are valued frontline providers who patients trust with their healthcare needs in varied clinical settings, including primary care practices, hospitals, and subspecialty medical clinics. This course offers PAs an introduction to palliative care and how it supports patients with serious illnesses. You’ll learn to conduct an advance care planning discussion and identify when patients could benefit from specialty palliative care


 

  • What Every Physician Needs to Know About Palliative Care CEs
  • Fee: $54.00
    CE Hours: 1
     

    Physician assistants are valued frontline providers who patients trust with their healthcare needs in varied clinical settings, including primary care practices, hospitals, and subspecialty medical clinics. This course offers PAs an introduction to palliative care and how it supports patients with serious illnesses. You’ll learn to conduct an advance care planning discussion and identify when patients could benefit from specialty palliative care


 

  • Pediatric Team Support
  • Fee: $98.00
    Item Number: FY2425SPP22024
    Dates: 7/1/2024 - 10/1/2025
    Times: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
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    Interdisciplinary teams are the cornerstone of palliative care, but can be vulnerable to challenges that arise when patients experience intense suffering caused by serious or life-limiting illness. Those issues can be heightened when the patient is a child, creating fear of conflict and team dysfunction. This course delivers the knowledge, tools, and resources to empower hospice and palliative care teams to create a culture of collaboration and support in which all members can thrive in their work.


 

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