Palliative Care Courses

Essentials of Palliative Care

45 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
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

What is Palliative Care?

261 ratings at Coursera

Palliative care provides invaluable help for patients living with serious or life-limiting illness and their family caregivers. Palliative care should be part of healthcare services to improve quality of life, the ability to tolerate and benefit from tr…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Pain Management: Easing Pain in Palliative Care

161 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you will be able to develop a systems view for assessing and managing pain in the palliative care setting. By the end of the course, you will be able to: 1) Describe the pain problem in the palliative care setting; 2) Assess a person’s pa…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Palliative Care Capstone Projects

29 ratings at Coursera

In the Capstone Course you have the opportunity to put what you have been learning about in the Palliative Care Specialization into practice. Our team has created five activities that directly relate to what you have been learning in the course. You will…

• Coursera
• 24 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Palliative Care Always: India

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

• Stanford OpenEdx
• 1-2 hours a week, 12 weeks long
• 14th Apr, 2019
• Free Online Course

Symptom Management in Palliative Care

14 ratings at Coursera

This course should be taken after the Essentials of Palliative Care course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support and goals of care. You will learn how to screen, assess, and manage both physical…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course

10 ratings at Coursera

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 pa…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Lancaster University

Palliative Care: Making it Work

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Learn how palliative care is managed in Europe and find out about best practice in delivering integrated palliative care

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• 18th Jun, 2018
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Lancaster University

Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

Examine how care homes are organised in Europe and how palliative care in care homes can be improved for older people.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• 22nd Feb, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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

Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education, Stanford Medcast Episode 13: COVID-19 Miniseries - Palliative Care During COVID-19, 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - 9/30/2023 12:00:00 AM, In this episode, Dr. Grant Smith and Dr. Brook Calton discuss how the pan…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Psychosocial and Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care

83 ratings at Coursera

In this course, you’ll learn how serious and life-threatening illnesses often affect emotional and spiritual well-being. Illnesses can increase stress as patients and families learn to live with a “new normal” that may often focus on illness. You’ll lear…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Palliative Care Always

Palliative Care Always is a specialization for health care practitioners, patients and caregivers. We’ve designed this specialization to demonstrate how palliative medicine integrates with patient care, and to help you develop primary palliative care ski…

• Coursera
• 2 hours a week, 26 weeks long
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Program Release: July 15, 2022 Expiration Date: July 15, 2024 Estimated time to complete: 60 Minutes There are no prerequisites for participation. SPEAKERS Susan DeSanto-Madeya, PhD, RN, FAAN Miriam Weyker Endowed Chair for Palliative Care, Associate Pro…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

The University of Chicago

Palliative Care Skills in the Setting of COVID-19

Join us for an engaging series of free on-demand webinars designed to strengthen your palliative care skills! The current COVID-19 pandemic presents health care providers and leadership with heretofore unplanned demands to care for a tsunami of criticall…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Participants in Medicine Grand Rounds will be able to identify the most current treatment guidelines, innovations, and standards of practice, and apply them to improve the care of individual patients, promote health and wellness in the population, and ac…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate