Palliative Care Always Specialization
Palliative Care Always offers a specialized program for healthcare practitioners, patients, and caregivers. Develop primary palliative care skills and improve patient’s quality of life through symptom management, effective communication, and goal-oriented care. Accredited by Stanford Medicine, our courses provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Enhance your patient-provider dialogs and create public materials to expand palliative care literacy. Join us to support families and caregivers of patients with serious illness.
Palliative Care Always is a specialization for health care practitioners, patients and caregivers. We’ve designed this specialization to demonstrate how palliative medicine integrates with patient care, and to help you develop primary palliative care skills. Over the next five courses, you will develop skills in symptom management, goals of care and effective communication to improve the quality of life for patients and families suffering with serious illness. Our hope is that you feel increasingly equipped to support the diverse needs of your patients and your own needs.
Accreditation
Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. View the full CME accreditation information on the individual course FAQ page.
In the core courses, learners will develop patient-provider dialogs applying communications skills to discuss goals of care, symptom management, transitions in care and family and caregiver support. In the capstone course, learners will create public materials to expand the general public’s palliative care literacy along with care plans to support families and caregivers of patients with serious illness and practice mock virtual/remote care.
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