Transitions in Care from Survivorship to Hospice

This course should be taken after the Symptom Management course and continues building your primary palliative care skills – communication, psychosocial support, goals of care, and symptom management. You will explore transitions in care such as survivorship and hospice. You will learn how to create a survivorship care plan and how to best support a patient. The course also covers spiritual care and will teach you how to screen for spiritual distress. Finally, you will learn the requirements for

• Describe patient needs changes as prognosis evolves
• Identify benefits of spiritual screening and assessment
• Define survivorship and survivorship care needs
• Define hospice care and differentiate it from palliative care