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- Advanced Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
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Fee: $79.00
CE Hours: 5.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Advanced Concepts in Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
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Fee: $109.00
CE Hours: 4.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Advanced Pediatric Care Delivery
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Fee: $59.00
CE Hours: 2
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Advanced Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
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Fee: $125.00
CE Hours: 8.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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
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- Advanced Practice RN Certificate in Palliative Care
- Cohort 29
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Fee: $3,900.00
CE Hours: 175
Dates: 2/15/2023 - 11/14/2023
Instructor: Karla Schroeder
Transform your career. Learn evidence-based approaches in pain and symptom management to help support resilience and ease patients’ suffering. Help patients and families identify care goals of care. Build interdisciplinary teams.Students enrolling in this course should be certified Nurse Practitioners (NP, APRN) in any specialty area. Nurses with an MSN or DNP may also be qualified if the
- May Course Start: Dahlin, C., Coyne, P.J., & Ferrell, B.R. (Eds). (2016). Advanced practice palliative nursing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- September and Beyond Start Dahlin, C., Coyne, P.J., & Ferrell, B.R. (Eds). (2022). Advanced practice palliative nursing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- McPherson, M. L. (2018). Demystifying opioid conversion calculations: A guide to effective dosing. 2nd Edition. (Links to an external site.) Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Cancellations may be made in writing up to the day before the first day of the course; a refund will be issued minus an administrative fee of $35. No refunds are possible for withdrawals once the course starts.
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- Basic Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
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Fee: $49.00
CE Hours: 1.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Basic Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
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Fee: $45.00
CE Hours: 1
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Basic Pediatric Care Delivery
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Fee: $49.00
CE Hours: 1.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Certificate in Clinical Pediatric Palliative Care
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Fee: $989.00
CE Hours: 66
Dates: Self-Paced
While palliative care is designed to ease suffering in patients at any age and stage of serious illness, caring for pediatric patients differs from palliative care for adults, and requires an extra level of skill. The Certificate in Clinical Pediatric Palliative Care delivers in-depth, evidence-based clinical skills, and strategies for pediatric specialists or hospice, palliative care, and home health professionals, who want to learn effective strategies for caring for infants, children, teens, and young adults with serious or terminal illnesses.
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- Foundational Communication Skills for Pediatric Patient and Family Support
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Fee: $59.00
CE Hours: 4
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Foundational Concepts of Easing Suffering and Promoting Healing for Pediatric Patients
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Fee: $109.00
CE Hours: 8
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Foundational Pediatric Care Delivery
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Fee: $79.00
CE Hours: 5.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Foundational Pediatric Pain and Symptom Assessment and Management
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Fee: $99.00
CE Hours: 7
Dates: Self-Paced
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.
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- Introduction to Pediatric Palliative Care
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Fee: $35.00
CE Hours: 0.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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
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- Multidisciplinary Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care
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Fee: $499.00
CE Hours: 37.5
Dates: Self-Paced
While palliative care is designed to ease suffering in patients at any age and stage of serious illness, caring for pediatric patients differs significantly from palliative care for adults and requires an extra level of skill. 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
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- Pediatric Ethical Principles and Challenges
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Fee: $89.00
CE Hours: 6.5
Dates: Self-Paced
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
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- Pediatric Team Support
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Fee: $89.00
CE Hours: 6
Dates: Self-Paced
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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- What Every APRN Needs to Know About Palliative Care
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Fee: $49.00
CE Hours: 1
Dates: Self-Paced
With the aging population and a shortage of palliative care practitioners, there has never been a more critical time for advanced practice nurses (APRNs) to expand their skill set and play a key role in this area. The presence of more APRNs in diverse care settings helps to expand access to palliative care to those who most need it. This fully online course offers a foundational understanding of palliative care including how to assess the need for palliative care, conducting an advance care planning discussion, and delivering difficult news. Start at any time and learn on your schedule.
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- What Every Nurse Needs to Know About Palliative Care
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Fee: $49.00
CE Hours: 1
Dates: Self-Paced
Palliative care is specialized care, an extra level of support, for people with serious or chronic illnesses. Appropriate from diagnosis onward, it focuses on relieving the symptoms and stress of a serious illness, going hand-in-hand with curative treatment and improving quality of life for both the patient and their family. Learn the fundamentals of palliative care, along with many tools that nurses can use to improve care delivery.
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