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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Definition of hospice and palliative care.
- WHO definition of hospice care.
- History of hospice.
- Essential characteristics of hospice and palliative care.
- Team concepts, roles of social workers, nurses, physicians, home health aides, clergy, counselors, volunteers, OT/PT/ST.
- Most common types of pain in cancer, Principles that Hospice apply for treatment of chronic pain.
Hour 2
- Stage theory, Psychosocial Care of Dying Persons and their Families, Statement of Assumptions and Principles Concerning Psychosocial Care of Dying Persons and their Families.
- Bereavement Follow Up Services, categories of bereavement, learn of bereavement services for teens and families, camps, counseling, Normal versus Pathological Grief, Prolonged or complicated grief disorder.
Hour 3
- The business of hospice, challenges hospice faces, curative treatment restriction, managed care and hospice.
Hour 4
- Medicare hospice benefit, new Medicare certification requirements and payment, new requirements for Medicare-certified hospices, levels of care covered by hospice, and hospice in nursing facilities.
- Research of effectiveness of hospice care, the future of hospice care and the right to die.
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