Hospice and Palliative Care Edition 2
Online palliative care CME
Terminal illness impacts everyone involved in caring for the patient, including you. This hospice and palliative care training shares proven strategies and best practices to help patients and their families navigate the often-overwhelming journey toward end-of-life care.
- Tailor hospice and palliative care conversations to each patient.
- Recognize when a patient may benefit from hospice care earlier.
- Have clearer, more supportive conversations with patients and families about hospice care.
- Navigate billing and coding details for advance care planning conversations.
Plus, engage in symptom management scenarios with WebXR for immersive learning.
- Advance care planning
- Communication
- Grief and bereavement
- Hospice versus palliative care
- Nutrition and hydration
- Pain management
- Constipation and non-pain symptoms
Terminal illness impacts everyone involved in caring for the patient, including you. This hospice and palliative care training shares proven strategies and best practices to help patients and their families navigate the often-overwhelming journey toward end-of-life care.
- Tailor hospice and palliative care conversations to each patient.
- Recognize when a patient may benefit from hospice care earlier.
- Have clearer, more supportive conversations with patients and families about hospice care.
- Navigate billing and coding details for advance care planning conversations.
Plus, engage in symptom management scenarios with WebXR for immersive learning.
- Advance care planning
- Communication
- Grief and bereavement
- Hospice versus palliative care
- Nutrition and hydration
- Pain management
- Constipation and non-pain symptoms
Learning Objectives
Identify patients with hospice and/or palliative care needs well in advance of imminent death to promote optimal quality of life during the end stages of disease.
Determine individual practice model of care for provision of hospice and palliative care.
Effectively communicate with patients and families in areas including ethical and legal issues, disease progression, and shared decision-making by provision of medical expertise with regard to risks/benefits of treatment options and effect on quality and quantity of life.
Provide palliative care and symptom management throughout the continuum of illness with consideration of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
Provide adequate comfort measures and anticipatory guidance to patients and their families at the time of imminent death.
Course details
Hospice Versus Palliative Care—An Overview
Morgan Unruh, DO
Advance Care Planning and the Role of the Family Medicine Provider
David B. Brecher, MD
Communication
Morgan Unruh, DO; Erin Nielsen, LCSW; Lucy Stasi, RN
The Referral
Johnson Wu, DO, MBe
Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill
Laurence Robbins, MD
Symptom Management Part 1: Pain and Constipation
Christi A. Stewart, MD, FAAFP, FAAHPM, HMDC
Symptom Management Part 2: Non-Pain Symptoms
Morgan Unruh, DO
The Last Hours: Impending Death
Christi A. Stewart, MD, FAAFP, FAAHPM, HMDC
Conversations on Grief: An Introduction to Grief and Bereavement
Michelle Owens, DO, FAAFP; Chaplain Nancy McCranie, MDiv; Kat Postel, LCSW
Reflection Session*
Michelle Owens, DO, FAAFP
*Enhance your patient care today and earn up to two additional AAFP Prescribed credits for when you complete the Translation to Practice® (t2p®) process.
WebXR (Web Expanded Reality) technology places you inside realistic, virtual clinical scenarios where you engage directly with patients and caregivers to discuss pain management strategies.
Each conversation evolves in real time, with character responses adapting to your clinical guidance. It mirrors the decision-making and feedback loop of real-world patient encounters in a safe environment so you can strengthen your skills and build confidence.
Best of all, you don’t need special equipment or software to experience it.