Palliative Care Always Capstone Course (Coursera)

Palliative Care Always Capstone Course (Coursera)
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We recommend that you take the other courses in the Palliative Care Always specialization before taking this course.
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Palliative Care Always Capstone Course (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 palliative care, promote self-care and wellness, show-off your communication skills in a virtual environment, and finish the course off by proving your thoughts on ways to offer psychosocial support to a patient and family.

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Course 5 of 5 in the Palliative Care Always Specialization.


What You Will Learn

- Explain the scope of palliative care in comprehensive care for patients and families to a variety of audiences.

- Outline ways to manage stress and nurture one's physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in a care plan.

- Provide coping mechanisms or other methods to support patients and families.

- Practice demonstrating empathy and compassion via a virtual or remote communication.


Syllabus


WEEK 1

Course Introduction and Overview

This module will introduce you to the exercises and projects you will be creating over the next four weeks. You will also explore how your opinion of palliative care has changed over the course of this specialization.


WEEK 2

Advocating for Palliative Care

This module focuses on creative ways to help your community, workplace, or family and friends learn what palliative care is, who can benefit, and how.


WEEK 3

Promoting Self-Care and Wellness

In this module, we explore self-care and wellness. You’ve learned about compassion fatigue, burnout and caregiver burden in the previous courses, now it is time to create an action plan.


WEEK 4

Communication Skills

Now we want to get back to basics with communication skills. Covid-19 has dramatically changed the way we interact with patients, family and friends. Many people have appointments now by phone or online. Families and friend often have to support each other remotely. This new way of interacting can make non-verbal communication and demonstrating empathy more difficult. In this module, you will explore virtual ways to “put a hand on another's shoulder to show support”.


WEEK 5

Psychosocial Support for the Patient and Family

This module explores distress – emotional and psychosocial, and coping with that distress.

Final Thoughts

This module recaps the key learnings of the specialization Palliative Care Always.



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41.00 EUR/month
We recommend that you take the other courses in the Palliative Care Always specialization before taking this course.

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