Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills
$55.00
Building on the course titled Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations, this Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning course is designed to enhance your knowledge, ability, and skill in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with patients, families, and decision-makers. This course provides an overview of essential communication and conversation skills, important areas for assessment and exploration, and special considerations for sensitively engaging in advance care planning discussions. You will learn behaviors and practices that demonstrate compassionate, person-centered communication, and help you effectively facilitate values-based end-of-life care discussions.
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
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of communication skills in healthcare encounters
- Describe the benefits of compassionate communication and identify the skills involved
- Recognize and demonstrate active listening and other communication skills involved in facilitating high-quality advance care planning conversations
- Identify and demonstrate specific assessment and exploration skills necessary for conducting effective and sensitive advance care planning conversations
- Recognize cultural and other factors that can affect advance care planning conversation
