Program Design for Palliative Care Delivered in the Home
What You’ll Learn
- Describe four elements of home-based palliative care delivery
- Understand how the results of a needs assessment influence service features of palliative care programs
- Describe the three components of program development for specialty home-based palliative care
- State how three different payment models impact program design
What You’ll Earn
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Tools & Resources
Home to the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, the Coalition was founded by the leading hospice and palliative care organizations to coordinate and collaborate on issues and activities of importance to the interdisciplinary hospice and palliative care field.
Practical tools and technical assistance for starting or growing a home-based palliative care program, from needs assessment to business planning, and more.
Hospice benefit definitions and guidelines. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, updated 2018.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance on the home health benefit and agency regulations.
TimeBanks USA provides materials to help start or maintain a local timebank to build a community support network for palliative care patients and their caregivers.
Accreditations and Disclosures
Physicians
This activity has not been awarded contact hours for physicians. Physicians will receive a verification of attendance certificate upon course completion.
Physician Assistants
This activity has not been awarded contact hours for physician assistants. Physician assistants will receive a verification of attendance certificate upon course completion.
Social Workers
This activity has not been awarded contact hours for social workers. Social workers will receive a verification of attendance certificate upon course completion.
Certified Case Managers
This program is approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification (Approval # 200138914) to provide 1.0 continuing education credits to CCM® board certified case managers.
Licensed Professional Counselors
This activity has not been awarded contact hours for licensed professional counselors. Licensed professional counselors will receive a verification of attendance certificate upon course completion.
Verification of Attendance (VOA)
All users that are not eligible for continuing education will receive a Verification of Attendance certificate upon completion of the course.
Course Media Instructions
Software Requirements: CAPC’s online curriculum, tools and technical assistance are designed to be fully compatible through multiple platforms: computer, smartphone (iOS or Android) or tablet running the following web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge.
Content: Each course is comprised of interactive learning components (articles, tools, or supporting materials), video and audio. The learner will be expected to complete various interactive processes such as matching, simulated clinical decision-making, fill in the blanks, and highlighting content.
To successfully earn credit, participants must complete the activity online, receive a minimum score of 80% on the post-test, and complete the course evaluation. A printable certificate of completion or a continuing award document specific to the discipline will be awarded.
Target Audience: Each program is developed for chaplains/spiritual counselors, nurses, physicians, physician assistants, social workers, case managers, palliative care program leaders, and healthcare leaders (hospital, health system and community care).
Activity Description/Statement of Needs: CAPC’s online curriculum provides training in two critical areas. Technical assistance courses are designed to help palliative care program leaders address key challenges such as implementing palliative care in community health care settings. Clinical coursework provides fundamental training in pain and symptom management, communication, and other key skills needed to work with patients with serious illness.
Disclaimers: The opinions expressed in the courses are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the sponsor, the educational partner, or the supporter. Please review complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings, and adverse effects before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.
Activities do not contain information on commercial products/devices that are unlabeled for use or investigational uses of products not yet approved.
Faculty Disclosures and Conflict of Interest: It is the policy of CAPC to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CME-provided educational activities per the highest standards of ANCC and ACGME guidelines. There may be other organizations depending on the topic. For all courses, Faculty/Presenters/Authors/Content Reviewers complete conflict of interest forms to determine any potential bias or conflict of interest. Disclosures are available for each activity.
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Course Faculty
Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN. Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care.
Jeanne Sheils Twohig, MPA. Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care.
Peer Reviewers
Megan E. Rau, MD. Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Contact information: For answers to frequently asked questions about CAPC courses, read the Online Course FAQ. For technical questions about course activity, email [email protected]. For questions about continuing education credits, contact 201-957-0077.
Provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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