Advance Care Planning Courses and Certifications

Mary Greeley Medical Center

Advance Care Planning: Making Your Wishes Known

Learn about advance care planning to ensure your healthcare wishes are respected. Explore legal documents, decision-making, and communicating preferences to loved ones and medical providers.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Oak Street Health Advanced Care Planning Training

Training for healthcare providers on using informed conversations, clinic strategies, and legal documents to help patients complete advance care plans.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

OPENPediatrics

Shared Journeys: Evidence-Based Anticipatory Guidance for Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment

Podcast discussing NeuroJourney, an anticipatory guidance tool for children with severe neurologic impairment, focusing on palliative care principles and collaborative relationships between clinicians and families.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

An Introductory Course on Clinical Bioethics & End-of-Life Care in the Philippines for Health Care Professionals

Introduces Philippine and Asian bioethical frameworks for advance care planning, end-of-life decisions, and shared decision-making in clinical practice.

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Essentials of Palliative Care

104 ratings at Coursera

Palliative care can help ease suffering and improve wellbeing in people living with serious illnesses such as cancer. Palliative Care Always is an online, case-based course for health care practitioners who work in cancer care.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care

92 ratings at Coursera

Learn to support seriously ill patients and families: distinguish normal grief from depression, ease anxiety and spiritual distress, and facilitate advance care planning and goals-of-care conversations.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Palliative Care Capstone Projects

43 ratings at Coursera

Put palliative care skills into practice: guide conversations using the Nature of Suffering form, SNAP self-awareness, WILDA pain assessment, ESAS symptom assessment, and advance care planning.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Harvard Medical School

The Caregiver's Guide

This Harvard online course brings you the confidence and know-how to help you meet the unique physical, emotional, and financial needs of a loved one requiring regular care.

• Harvard Health Online Learning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

OPENPediatrics

Pediatric Primary Palliative Care

2 ratings

Reviews pediatric primary palliative care, focusing on guiding families through prognosis, concurrent care, advance planning, and comfort-focused support.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cardiology University of Washington

Palliative Care for the Heart Failure Patient

Gain insights into palliative care for heart failure patients, exploring its role, timing, and integration into daily patient care.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OPENPediatrics

Palliative Care Clinical Vignette

Actors portray family, patients, and clinicians to illustrate challenges and approaches in delivering palliative care and conducting advanced care conversations.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Vollmacht und Patientenverfügung als persönliches Backup. Reflektieren Sie Ihre Wünsche und Grenzen, um im Krankheitsfall selbstbestimmt zu bleiben und Konflikte zu vermeiden.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

80028094 - JHACH On-Demand CME 32522: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Laura Drach, DO, MSN, FAAP, FAAHPM; Jacinda Hays, DO, FAAP

A pediatric CME presentation focused on Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for physicians and other healthcare professionals.

• Independent
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate

Oak Street Health Advanced Care Planning Training

Train providers to guide patients and families through advance care planning conversations, directives, and care decisions.

• Independent
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate