Resources
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Palliative Care
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Application
for Certified Hospice & Palliative Social Worker (CHP-SW)
The National Association of Social Workers offers credentials including Certified Hospice & Palliative Social Worker.
Type: Certification resources
Sponsoring Organization: National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Audience: Social workers -
California
Consensus Standards for Community-Based Palliative Care
Document of consensus standards for community-based palliative care in California.
Type: Document
Sponsoring Organization: California Advanced Illness Collaborative
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
Essential tools, training, technical assistance, and metrics to build and sustain palliative care in all healthcare settings.
Type: Resources
Audience: Providers, payers, and policymakers -
Education on
Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Increase the core skills of palliative care for all members of the interdisciplinary team. Modules can be purchased individually or in clusters.
Type: Self-paced modules
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Essential Practices in Hospice and Palliative
Medicine
Formerly known as the UNIPAC series, this self-study focuses on a specific topic in hospice and palliative medicine, with accompanying confidence-based learning modules.
Type: Self-study series of books
Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Audience: Physicians specializing in palliative medicine -
Extremis
Academy Award-nominated film takes us to the frontline of a public health crisis that touches us all. Extremis follows patients and families grappling with the thorny decisions associated with serious illness.
Type: Netflix video documentary
Sponsoring Organization: Jessica Nutik Zitter
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Get Palliative Care
This resource provides clear, comprehensive palliative care information for people coping with a serious, complex illness.
Type: Resources
Sponsoring Organization: Center to Advance Palliative Care
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
eLearning
Access to up-to-date, convenient, self-paced learning on palliative care nursing with real-time test grading and printing of your CE certificate.
Type: Continuing Education (CE)
Sponsoring Organization: Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Audience: Nurses and nursing assistants -
Integration of Palliative Care
Into All Serious Illness Care as A Human Right
This article discusses the need for every clinician to have knowledge and a skill set to discuss palliative care with patients and families and views palliative care as what the individual patient wants and needs for their healthcare.
Type: Resource
Sponsoring Organization: American Medical Association
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Minnesota Network for Hospice and Palliative Care (MNHPC)
Promote quality of life in our communities through advance care planning, palliative care and hospice.
Type: Resources
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative
Care
Promote access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or advanced illness, whenever and wherever palliative care is needed across the continuum of healthcare.
Type: Continuing Education, Continuing Medical Education
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
MJHS Institute for Innovation in
Palliative Care: Interdisciplinary Webinar Series
Offering free and fee-based interdisciplinary webinar series, live and on demand, delivered by frontline experts, typically offering 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for Continuing Medical Education, Nursing continuing education, and Social Work continuing education credits.
Type: Continuing Education, Continuing Medical Education
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Nancy Joyner Consulting
Education about palliative care.
Type: Consultation, education, resources
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
The
National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th Edition
(2018)
Guidelines for establishing quality palliative care.
Type: Document
Sponsoring Organization: National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
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National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality
The report details a set of 38 best practices for improving palliative care programs.
Type: Document
Sponsoring Organization: National Quality Forum
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care Courses
Online certificate courses in palliative care and spiritual care for the Interdisciplinary Health Care Team.
Type: Certification resources
Sponsoring Organization: HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Audience: Chaplains, healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care Advanced Practice Registered
Nurses (APRN) Externship
Provide extensive primary palliative education to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), to enrich their competency to care for patients with serious illness.
Type: A five-day immersion course
Sponsoring Organization: Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Audience: Advanced practice registered nurses -
Palliative Care Education
Educating current and future professionals and the community.
Type: Continuing Education (CE), Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Sponsoring Organization: California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care Leadership Centers
There are seven national Palliative Care Leadership Centers designated by the Center to Advance Palliative Care. These programs host site visits, including training and technical assistance for hospitals and other institutions seeking to start or strengthen their own palliative care programs.
Type: Training
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin
Support the growth of palliative care services through education, systems change, and advocacy.
Type: Evidence based resources
Sponsoring Organization: Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) originally published by End Of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC)
Audience: Healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care
& Hospice Advanced Certification
Resources about palliative care specialty certification.
Type: Certification resources
Sponsoring Organization: Board of Chaplaincy Certification Inc. (BCCI)
Audience: Chaplains, healthcare professionals -
Palliative Care: YOU are a BRIDGE
Education about palliative care.
Type: Video
Sponsoring Organization: Center to Advance Palliative Care
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Palliative Doctors
This website explains the specialty of hospice and palliative medicine and its benefits to patients and families.
Type: Resources
Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Audience: Physicians specializing in palliative medicine -
Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN)
National network of psychosocial care professionals dedicated to providing information, professional resources, policy updates, education, and research best practices in palliative and hospice care. Membership is open to social workers and other professionals in the hospice and palliative care fields. Supports the newly developed evidence-based certification opportunity, the Advanced Palliative Hospice Social Worker Certification (APHSW-C).
Type: Resources
Audience: Healthcare professionals
Advance Care Planning
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The Conversation Project
The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. Whether you're a healthcare professional, community volunteer, or faith leader, help us spread The Conversation Project to people where they work, live, and pray.
Type: Resources
Sponsoring Organization: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
The Go Wish Game
An easy, even entertaining way to talk about what is most important if you were to be living a life that may be shortened by serious illness.
Type: Interactive game
Sponsoring Organization: CODA Alliance
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Gone From
My Sight: The Dying Experience
Each person goes through the stages of death in almost the same manner. And most families had the same questions. These realizations led Barbara to sit down and write the "Little Blue Book." The book that changed an industry.
Type: Booklet
Sponsoring Organization: Barbara Karnes Books, Inc.
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Hard Choices for Loving People
Honest answers, practical advice, and spiritual guidance to help patients and families during a serious illness.
Type: Booklet
Sponsoring Organization: Hann Dunn
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Hello
It's a conversation game. It's the easy, non-threatening way to start a conversation with your family and friends about what matters most to you.
Type: Interactive game
Sponsoring Organization: Common Practice
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Honoring Choices North Dakota
A collaborative group of statewide community partners whose shared vision is that the healthcare choices a person makes become the healthcare the person receives. The mission is to assist communities develop a successful advance care planning process.
Type: Resources
Audience: For healthcare professionals, patients, and families -
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
Translating patient wishes into medical orders.
Type: Resources
Sponsoring Organization: Honoring Choices North Dakota
Audience: Healthcare professionals, patients, and families