PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN SPIRITUAL CARE AT THE END OF LIFE
Hospice Chaplain Specialty Certificate Training
The curriculum for this course builds an essential knowledge base for professionals who deliver spiritual care in a hospice context, in order to improve the quality of care delivered to patients and families and meet accreditation requirements for expertise in the area. The course is a fully online, text based program, delivered in a continuously available and easily accessible format that allows students greater flexibility in balancing work responsibilities with furthering their education.
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If you are a hospice chaplain in need of polishing up your visit documentation, this is a webinar for you. This webinar will be on TBD
The most scrutinized area for hospices by the U.S. centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is patient eligibility.
While most hospices admit eligible patients to hospice care, they often don’t prove eligibility with their documentation. Yet that is the primary area at risk for payment by CMS.
Polishing up on your visit documentation has never been this vital. You can sign up for this webinar TODAY!
Latest Posts
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Live Webinar: Unpacking the Complex Psycho-spiritual tasks Prevalent in the Initial Phase of Dying
We are continuing with Hospice Chaplaincy’s new Professional Development Series. This week, we are offering a new live Webinar on Unpacking the Complex Psycho-spiritual tasks Prevalent in the Initial Phase of Dying. The initial phase of dying awakens unresolved key problems from both the near and distant past. Problems of dependency, passivity, narcissism, identity, and…
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Episode 1- The Hospice Chaplaincy Show
Whether you are in traffic or just making your daily rounds, here is a good show for you to listen to. In this first ever episode of the brand new “Hospice Chaplaincy Show”, Dr. Saul Ebema and his co host Joe Newton share their stories on how they became hospice chaplains and why they love…
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Understanding the stage of Active Denial
Nijole Hunter– RN One evening, I was just taking a walk in the nearby park and saw a woman sitting alone on the bench and sobbing. As I approached her, I decided to reach out to her and offer some support. She told me that she had received some bad news from her doctor. She…
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Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Anxiety and Agitation in Hospice Patients
Nijole Hunter RN (Center of Hospice) Those who work in Hospice care will encounter some major spiritual and emotional issues the terminally ill patients experience as death nears and one of the major issues is anxiety. In facing death, people typically experience a wide range of anxieties and related emotions like fear, dread, panic and…
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The Burden of Grief
Saul Ebema, DMin. The natural human response to any loss is to mourn the loss. Mourning a death gives people room to express their feelings associated with the death. Such feelings as, anger, guilt, and abandonment when expressed can lead to healing and restoration. Parkes and Weiss identified “three basic tasks of grief”[1] Emancipation from…
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