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COURSE DETAILS
Course Length: 8 Weeks
Effort: 6-8 Hours/Week
Format: Instructor-led, Online
Cost: $1,022
Hours: 64 CE
Discipline(s): Nursing Professionals
Overview
CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care offers in-depth palliative care training for nurses working with seriously ill patients in all settings. Designed for busy nursing professionals, this convenient online certificate program provides the flexibility you need to accomplish your educational goals and advance your career.
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Completely revised and updated!
With input from a Curricular Taskforce of palliative care experts, course instructors, and past students; course evaluations; and alumni surveys over 4 years, revisions include:
- Updated content to reflect state-of-the-art clinical practice and regulatory updates from CMS
- Expanded clinical tools, resources, and practical takeaways in downloadable "toolkit"
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- Expanded/new content on communication strategies in the context of serious illness: advance care planning, goals of care; palliative care ethics; moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout; personal and organizational well-being; diversity, equity, and inclusion; telemedicine; disenfranchised and complicated grief, ambiguous loss, grief assessment
- New optional "live" sessions by Zoom with instructor, fellow students for Q&A, discussion, and feedback
- Additional Discussion Forum prompts, case studies, and topics to enrich student interaction and peer-to-peer learning; refreshed quiz and final exam questions to reinforce concepts
Palliative Care Education for Nurses
Nurses deliver compassionate, multifaceted care to patients and families from all walks of life. Whether you are working in hospice and palliative care or another practice setting, this palliative care nursing course offers all the tools you'll need to support vulnerable patients and their families. Learn about the trajectories of common illnesses, expert pain and symptom management strategies, how to address emotional suffering, and how to care for patients at the end of life.
What You'll Learn
- Acquire effective skills to communicate with seriously ill patients, caregivers, and colleagues; conduct advance care planning; elicit goals of care
- Understand clinical presentations, disease trajectories, and prognostic indicators of advanced illness
- Explore evidence-based pain assessment and care planning that considers sensory, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, and spiritual components of pain
- Identify and evaluate pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment approaches to manage symptoms
- Understand ethical considerations in palliative care and the application of ethics to support patient and provider decision making
- Consider and sensitively address cultural differences and the needs of diverse populations
What You'll Earn
64 continuing education (CE) credits provided through 糖心原创 (糖心原创) Extended Learning, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider #CEP11422
Who Should Enroll
Students enrolling in this course should be an RN or BSN.
Completion and Refunds
Cancellations may be made 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.
Meet the Faculty
- Carol Lovci DNP, MSN, PHN, CHPNCarol Lovci DNP, MSN, PHN, CHPN, is a palliative care nurse and QAPI coordinator for a Southern California Hospice and Palliative Care organization. Her clinical focus is on end-of-life care, symptom management, and ensuring quality patient care and outcomes. She has more than 2 decades of experience in hospice and palliative care, and 2 decades in higher education. Her focus is on advancing knowledge and skills for clinicians as well as care providers, navigating crucial conversations along the way.
- Deena O鈥橲hea RN, MSN, OCN, NE-BC, INHC, CFM
Deena O鈥橲hea currently serves as the Director of Scripps Cancer Center Clinics. Prior to her appointment at Scripps, she was the Director Hospice and Palliative Care, a program of Sharp HealthCare located in San Diego, CA. She also has a long tenure at UCSD in leadership roles in the Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Divisions. Of note she also served for several years at Stanford as the Director of the Cancer Center.
As a lifelong learner, Deena continues her education, most recently in integrative and functional modalities for palliative and end of life patients medicine and holds certification in integrative nutrition and functional medicine for nurses.
She has had a rich trajectory of clinical education, and administrative experiences over her tenure as a professional advanced practice nurse. She is a strong patient and nurse advocate and loves sharing knowledge and learning from nurses across generations.
Deena鈥檚 interests and work life balance activities include spending time with her two grandchildren, her mini-Aussie, reading, cooking, hiking, biking, travel and the arts.
Testimonials
This course covered all the aspects of palliative care that are important and crucial for the RN to know. These include: communication skills with patients and families/caregivers, understanding the role of a palliative care nurse in the interdisciplinary team, systems and symptom review for specific illnesses, understanding and communicating regarding stages of death and dying, anticipatory grief, caring for the dying patient and their families, and postmortem care and bereavement.
I found the information extremely relevant and useful. I have used the information to guide my patient education. My suggestions based on things learned in the class were used by my patients with good effects.
I am so thankful I found this course! I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about palliative care through coursework that is inspiring in its content and easily manageable to complete for people working full-time.
In Partnership with CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care
In collaboration with the , an institute of the California State University, we offer cutting-edge palliative care education. For over a decade, the Institute has empowered healthcare professionals across diverse healthcare settings with high-quality palliative care programs. Through an advanced online platform, these programs cater to the unique needs of organizations, ensuring top-tier instruction and support for current and future healthcare professionals as well as the community.
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