Palliative Care

30

Self-Guided

This course is for chaplains, nurses, social workers, physicians and others on the interdisciplinary health care team who wish to improve their delivery of spiritual care in health care.

The course strengthens the quality of palliative care by providing a foundation of knowledge and practice built on the applicable areas of the National Consensus Project's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care and the National Quality Forum's National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality.

25

Self-Guided

This course explores specific topics in an in-depth manner that requires participants to engage in deeper critical thinking which can be articulated into advanced practice, enhancing professional practice and leadership in the provision of spiritual care as an integral component of palliative care.

The course is for health care professionals who have completed a Fundamentals course who want to build upon that knowledge base and continue to develop their skills to improve patient outcomes, board certified chaplains wishing to enhance preparation for a specialty palliative certification from a certifying organization, and Chaplaincy/pastoral care department directors who desire to build upon the expertise and contributions of the palliative care team