The Palliative Care Always Capstone course is designed to let you test your knowledge about palliative and help others understand the value of palliative care, while showing your creative side. In this course, you will impact community awareness about palliative care, promote self-care and wellness, show-off your communication skills in a virtual environment, and finish the course off by proving your thoughts on ways to offer psychosocial support to a patient and family.
Palliative Care Always Capstone Course
Palliative Care Always Capstone Course
This course is part of Palliative Care Always Specialization
Instructors: Kavitha Ramchandran
Sponsored by Louisiana Workforce Commission
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13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Explain the scope of palliative care in comprehensive care for patients and families to a variety of audiences.
Outline ways to manage stress and nurture one's physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in a care plan.
Provide coping mechanisms or other methods to support patients and families.
Practice demonstrating empathy and compassion via a virtual or remote communication.
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1 assignment
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Palliative Care Always Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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There are 6 modules in this course
This module will introduce you to the exercises and projects you will be creating over the next four weeks. You will also explore how your opinion of palliative care has changed over the course of this specialization.
What's included
1 reading1 assignment
This module focuses on creative ways to help your community, workplace, or family and friends learn what palliative care is, who can benefit, and how.
What's included
1 peer review
In this module, we explore self-care and wellness. You’ve learned about compassion fatigue, burnout and caregiver burden in the previous courses, now it is time to create an action plan.
What's included
1 peer review
Now we want to get back to basics with communication skills. Covid-19 has dramatically changed the way we interact with patients, family and friends. Many people have appointments now by phone or online. Families and friend often have to support each other remotely. This new way of interacting can make non-verbal communication and demonstrating empathy more difficult. In this module, you will explore virtual ways to “put a hand on another's shoulder to show support”.
What's included
1 reading3 discussion prompts
This module explores distress – emotional and psychosocial, and coping with that distress.
What's included
1 peer review
This module recaps the key learnings of the specialization Palliative Care Always.
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1 reading
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