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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Understanding The Spiritual Needs of the Dying
By Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. Do individuals become more religious as they die? This question has often been debated among academics who study death. Such debate avoids the central issue that the dying process raises profound spiritual concerns of meaning and connection for individuals. Whether those who are dying reconnect, review, or renew prior…
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How Chaplains can Help Family Members of a Hospice Patient
Dr. Saul Ebema Because of the complexities of the family system, make sure you have a good assessment of the family. A good assessment of the family helps to provide understanding in; The makeup of the family. Family values and beliefs Coping styles and abilities. Religion and philosophy of life. Previous experience with death and…
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Spiritual care at the end of life can add purpose and help maintain identity
Colleen Doyle, University of Melbourne and David Jackson, University of Melbourne In Australian nursing homes, older people are increasingly frail and being admitted to care later than they used to be. More than half of residents suffer from depression, yet psychiatrists and psychologists aren’t easily accessible, and pastoral or spiritual care is only available in a subset of homes. Depression at the…
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Importance of End of Life Training
Dr. Saul Ebema Patient #1 had just been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor when I first met him. At 42 years old, he was still a young man with two children aged eight and six years. I met his wife by the bedside trying to comfort him. His two children had been taken to…
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Spiritual History in Hospice Care
Kenny McCarthy. Spiritual history-taking is the process of interviewing a patient in order to come to a better understanding of their spiritual needs and resources. A spiritual history can be integrated into existing formats such as the social history section of the clinical database. Compared to screening, history-taking uses a broader set of questions to…
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