Improving Communication Between Healthcare Professionals and Families About Hospice Care
$25.95
Medicare wisely created an interdisciplinary benefit four decades ago, to support dying patients and their chosen families. However, major deficits still exist in the understanding of the hospice benefit among healthcare professionals, and as a result those patients’ and families’ perceptions about disease trajectory and expectations about the dying process. This program aims to help healthcare team members to close the gap between perception and reality.
Program Viewing
The program viewing link and materials will be accessible through your account. The viewing link and CE instructions will also be emailed to you.
Continuing Education
An exam is required to obtain CE hours for this course. If you do not need CE certification, or if you would like a certificate of attendance only, please click here.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Compare practitioners’ perception of life expectancy vs reality.
- Explain the SPIKES protocol.
- Describe the Hospice CAHPS Survey and its components.
