Strategies for whole system change in healthcare (HEARTS in HEALTHCARE)

What is palliative care?

This draft document has been prepared by George Hankins Hull Palliative Care The aim of palliative care is to ease the suffering that results from illness. Palliative care seeks to provide treatment for your symptoms, even when the underlying disease cannot be cured. The goals of palliative care are to relieve your pain and other discomfort and to help reduce your family’s stress. In addition, palliative care seeks to provide information to help you cope and live with a chronic illness. Palliative care encompasses emotional, social, and spiritual needs as well. During the course of your illness, a palliative approach to care can help you and your family to achieve a better quality of life. To request a palliative care consultation You or your family can make a request to consult a palliative care team representative by speaking with your nurse or doctor. Your health care team also may decide to request a palliative care consult. A palliative care representative will visit you within 24...

Improving Outcomes in Palliative Care & Hospice

Julien Olivier a CPSP colleague from New Hampshire sent me the link to this great resource below: This website could be very useful for persons seeking to be better informed concerning hospice and palliative care. Note that the course and credits (25) are FREE! Richard Payne, MD Activity Medical Director Professor of Divinity and Medicine Duke University Curriculum Outline Using the principles of palliative care, this activity is aimed at providing the clinician with the tools to evaluate patients for palliative care needs and to understand the regulations for palliative care and hospice eligibility. This curriculum is intended for pain specialists, oncologists, family practice care providers, hospice medical directors and other healthcare providers who treat patients with advanced life-threatening illnesses. In order to successfully complete this activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credi t, learners must demonstrate performance by achieving a min...

CPSP Board Certified Clinical Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care

In the recent decade, public attention on the work of care for the terminally ill has greatly increased, largely through government funding of such work. The American Board of Medical Specialties approved palliative medicine as a new medical specialty in 2006, followed by the first board certification granted for physicians in palliative medicine in 2008. Clinical Chaplaincy has been an integral part of this emerging model of care. In response, CPSP has developed a subspecialty certification for Board Certified Clinical Chaplains, “Board Certified Clinical Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care” (FHPC). This will be a subspecialty credential for those first credentialed as Board Certified Clinical Chaplains (BCCC) or Board Certified Pastoral Counselors (BCPC). Procedure: CPSP Chapters will receive requests from candidates for this certification, and will review the request. The candidate for FHPC subspecialty certification may dow...

Palliative Care Conversations

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