Critical Care Nursing
This Learning Pathway contains training and tools for critical care nurses to provide an added layer of support to patients. It includes continuing education courses in pain management, how to communicate with patients about their goals of care and support difficult decision-making, and when to refer to specialty palliative care.
An introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.
This course provides context and best practices for identifying older adults at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges.
Assessing and supporting caregivers of people with serious illness.
Checklist of triggers for referral to a specialty palliative care team.
Communication Skills
Learn best practices for having patient-centered conversations about a serious illness diagnosis.
Learn how to effectively discuss prognosis with patients and their caregivers.
Learn best practices for building trust, eliciting patient values, and having patient-centered conversations about goals of care.
Learn to effectively lead meetings that help patients and caregivers become aligned around the patient’s goals.
Learn techniques to help patients and their caregivers plan for the future, both during the early stages of a serious illness and as a disease progresses.
Managing Pain and Other Symptoms
Conducting a comprehensive pain assessment to guide safe and effective treatment.
Safe opioid prescribing in older adults, cognitively impaired patients, children, and the imminently dying, including patient-controlled analgesia.
Take this online course to learn evidence-based strategies to identify and treat anxiety in patients with a serious illness.
Constipation occurs in at least 70% of patients living with a serious illness and often goes unrecognized. Take this online course to learn critical skills to identify and manage the impact of constipation.
This online course teaches how to accurately identify and treat depression in patients living with a serious illness.
Take this online course to learn how to manage dyspnea, including the physical causes of shortness of breath and the emotional impact on the patient.
Nausea and vomiting are common symptoms of serious illness, and can cause dangerous complications. Take this online course to learn practical skills to identify, manage, and reduce these symptoms.
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