Stanford University
Palliative Care Always Specialization

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Stanford University

Palliative Care Always Specialization

Integrate palliative care into your daily practice. Master complex communication skills and learn tools to screen for palliative needs and offer basic palliative care.

Jan DeNofrio
Kavitha Ramchandran
Manuela Kogon

Instructors: Jan DeNofrio

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.7

(148 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

  • The scope and role of palliative care as part of a patient and family's care plan

  • Components of a treatment plan for physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care, including screening, assessment and management of patient needs

  • Effective communication skills for responding to emotion, delivering difficult news, and discussing goals of care

  • Issues around transitions in care (e.g. survivorship or hospice transition)

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Taught in English
66 practice exercises

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Specialization - 5 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define the scope of palliative care and the roles of primary and specialist teams in comprehensive care for patients and families

  • Explain the components of an interdisciplinary patient treatment plan that includes physical, emotional, social and spiritual care

  • Discuss basic strategies for addressing psychosocial and relationship concerns in the context of serious illness

  • Engage in goals of care and advance care planning discussions with patients and families

Skills you'll gain

Category: Psychosocial Assessments
Category: Stress Management
Category: Communication
Category: Patient Education And Counseling
Category: Patient-centered Care
Category: Patient Communication
Category: Rapport Building
Category: Family Support
Category: Care Coordination
Category: Cultural Responsiveness
Category: Interpersonal Communications
Category: Discussion Facilitation

What you'll learn

  • Respond to the subjective experience of symptoms and side effects using assessment tools and communication skills

  • Conduct a pain assessment and provide basic pain management using medication and lifestyle modification

  • Describe several interventions to help with emotions and coping and the role the palliative care psychiatrist plays in caring for the patient

  • Define distress and common causes of emotional distress related to life-threatening illness

Skills you'll gain

Category: Patient Evaluation
Category: Pharmacology
Category: Psychosocial Assessments
Category: Patient Education And Counseling
Category: Patient-centered Care
Category: Pain Management
Category: Nursing Practices
Category: Patient Communication
Category: Mental Health Diseases and Disorders
Category: Clinical Assessment
Category: Basic Patient Care
Category: Communication

What you'll learn

  • Describe how a patient’s needs change as the prognosis changes

  • Identify the benefits of spiritual screening and assessment

  • Define survivorship and specific survivorship needs for patients

  • Define hospice care and how it differs from palliative care

Skills you'll gain

Category: Hospice
Category: Oncology
Category: Patient Education And Counseling
Category: Care Management
Category: Patient Communication
Category: Patient-centered Care
Category: Mental Health
Category: Dignity in Care
Category: Long Term Care
Category: Family Support
Category: Pain Management
Category: Care Coordination

What you'll learn

  • Describe several interventions to help with the emotions and coping of being a family member or caregiver of someone with serious illness.

  • Conduct a basic screen for appropriate adjustment in children.

  • Define caregiver burden and how to screen for it.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Parent Communication
Category: Caregiving
Category: Working With Children
Category: Pediatrics
Category: Patient Advocacy
Category: Social Work
Category: Patient Education and Support
Category: Clinical Assessment
Category: Pain Management
Category: Patient-centered Care
Category: Nursing and Patient Care
Category: Child Health
Category: Patient Communication
Category: Psychosocial Assessments
Category: Hospice
Category: Stress Management
Category: Family Support
Category: Family Therapy
Category: Child Development
Category: Medical Social Work

What you'll learn

  • Explain the scope of palliative care in comprehensive care for patients and families to a variety of audiences.

  • Outline ways to manage stress and nurture one's physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in a care plan.

  • Provide coping mechanisms or other methods to support patients and families.

  • Practice demonstrating empathy and compassion via a virtual or remote communication.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Pain Management
Category: Telehealth
Category: Stress Management
Category: Family Support
Category: Communication
Category: Caregiving
Category: Compassion
Category: Empathy
Category: Patient Advocacy
Category: Community Health
Category: Patient-centered Care
Category: Mental Health Diseases and Disorders
Category: Patient Education And Counseling
Category: Hospice

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Instructors

Jan DeNofrio
Stanford University
5 Courses9,619 learners
Kavitha Ramchandran
Stanford University
5 Courses9,619 learners
Manuela Kogon
Stanford University
1 Course2,639 learners
Joshua C. Fronk
Stanford University
1 Course2,639 learners

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