Course Code: REL-ACU-0-IHEXPC
Hours: 1.25
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Describe the elements of the hospice service, including regulatory guidelines.
Identify key differences between patient and professional experiences in curative care vs. hospice/palliative care.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Hospice is Distinct
Hospice Philosophy
Why Are You Transitioning to Hospice?
Experiential Differences
Advance Care Planning
Deprescribing
Review
Summary
Section 3: Navigating a New System
Regulatory and Technical Requirements
Five Standards of Service Delivery
Initial and Comprehensive Assessments
Discharge, Revocations, and Transfers
Review
Summary
Section 4: Unique Challenges
Patient and Family Challenges
Healthcare Professional Challenges
Meet Bill
More Professional Challenges
More Professional Challenges
Professional Boundaries, Managing Emotions, and Compassion Fatigue
What Can Help You Stay in Hospice?
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributor
References
Subject Matter Expert: Elizabeth Vaccaro, BSN RN
Elizabeth Vaccaro earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Kean University. She has worked as a Multiple Sclerosis Nurse Educator. Elizabeth has worked in a variety of healthcare settings from the hospital to the pharmaceutical industry which has allowed her to have a great appreciation for all the challenges that span the healthcare field. She has practiced in the hospice setting for nine years in a variety of roles from Case Manager, Educator, and Director of both inpatient and home care hospice.
Writer: Meredith Moyers MS, RD, LDN
Meredith earned a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from The University of Akron and a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Eastern Michigan University. After completing her internship with The Detroit Medical Center in 2007, she began working in various academic medical centers in Ohio and North Carolina. She has experience in providing nutrition therapy in both acute and ambulatory settings. Her areas of nutrition specialty include oncology, cardio-thoracic transplant, renal, and general medicine. Meredith has been a guest speaker for numerous cancer survivorship groups and presented telemedicine lectures for North Carolina community colleges. She founded and ran an oncology teaching garden at the SECU Family House for patients and their families undergoing cancer treatment at The University of North Carolina. She is currently a SME writer for Relias.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Nurses; Social Workers; in the following settings: Acute Care Facility.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.