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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Is end of life a Bioethical Crisis or Spiritual Crisis?
John Hardwig. When I am dying, I am quite sure that the central issues for me will not be whether I am put on a ventilator, whether CPR is attempted when my heart stops, or whether I receive artificial feeding. Although each of these could be important, each will almost certainly be quite peripheral. Rather,…
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What is the value of spiritual care at Life’s end?
Melissa J. Hart. How does spiritual care help people who are facing life-limiting illness to find courage and equanimity? How does it help people find balance, comfort, and strength? The added dimension that spiritual care brings to hospice and palliative medicine has enormous capacity to improve the quality of life for patients, for families, and for physicians. Attending to the…
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When death hits close to home: A Hospice Chaplain’s reflection.
Samuel Blair. Within a period of 6 months, two of the nurses I work with lost their mothers. In both of these cases, they chose to have their mothers on our hospice. This is a very hard thing to do. It was awkward for a while for all of us at team especially to be…
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Stuck in Grief?
By Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. Sometimes individuals share with me that they or someone they know are “stuck in grief.” Yet, I always wonder what individuals mean when they say “stuck in grief.” Sometimes when I think of someone stuck in grief, I know they are having a more complicated reaction to grief. Here the…
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Excerpt from the Book “Grief Is a Journey” – Chapter 1—The Myths of Grief
Myth # 1: Grief Is a Predictable Process Wouldn’t it be wonderful if grief was predictable! If we knew what we would experience, when we would experience grief, and just how long it would last. Some of our earliest views on grief looked at grief as an illness. As with many illnesses, there was a…
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