Palliative Pain and Symptom Management

This course focuses on palliative pain and symptom management in the care setting. The learning outcomes include understanding the assessment and treatment of pain, fatigue, dyspnea, nausea, and decreased appetite. The course teaches pain assessment, pain management, addressing barriers to opioid use, managing non-pain symptoms, and provides a case example. The teaching method is through a lecture format by Dr. Emma Jones, MD. The intended audience for this course is healthcare clinicians involved in palliative care for patients, particularly those caring for critically ill children.