Palliative Care Courses

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

What is Palliative Care?

306 ratings at Coursera

Learn to recognize the many causes of suffering, communicate with patients and families using SNAP and active listening, examine your own values, and conduct whole person assessments.

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

Pain Management: Easing Pain in Palliative Care

194 ratings at Coursera

Assess and manage pain in palliative care: identify pain types and barriers, weigh integrative therapies, and use non-opioid and opioid medications through a cervical cancer case.

• 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

Career Certificate

Palliative Care Always

171 ratings at Coursera

Build primary palliative care skills: symptom management, goals-of-care and communication, transitions from survivorship to hospice, and support for families and caregivers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

35 ratings at Coursera

Create palliative care advocacy projects for your community, build a self-care plan against burnout, practice empathy in virtual visits, and design psychosocial support for patients and families.

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

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

36 ratings at Coursera

Screen, assess, and manage physical and psychological symptoms in serious illness, including pain, nausea, fatigue, and emotional distress, with culturally competent communication.

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

Stanford Medcast Episode 13: COVID-19 Miniseries - Palliative Care During COVID-19

Explores how COVID-19 reshaped palliative care, including difficult family conversations by video or phone and team support against burnout.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Career Certificate

Palliative Care: It's Not Just Hospice Anymore

513 ratings at Coursera

Ease suffering in serious illness: assess pain, fatigue and breathlessness, use communication skills to explore goals and values, and address psychological and spiritual distress.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

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

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

Palliative Care Skills in the Setting of COVID-19

1 rating

On-demand webinars build palliative care skills for managing symptoms, end-of-life decisions, communication, ethics, and provider resilience during COVID-19.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

MassGeneralHospital

The Role of Palliative Care and Hospice - Supporting Patients with Serious Illness

1 rating

Discover how palliative care and hospice services provide comprehensive support for patients with serious illnesses and their families, from early diagnosis through end-of-life care.

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

On Demand | Demystifying Palliative Care

Learn to distinguish palliative care from hospice care and understand how interprofessional teams support people living with serious illness.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Medicine Grand Rounds - Aging and Dying in Prison: Integrating Geriatrics and Palliative Care into Criminal Justice Reform

Applies geriatric and palliative care models to policy recommendations for improving the care and environments of aging prisoners.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate