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.
To register for the courses, just click on ‘SIGNUP’.
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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Psychological suffering at the end of life
Lisa Ling. PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING is a virtually universal experience for patients at the end of life and their families. This is because suffering exists on a continuum and has many sources: grief about current and anticipated losses, fear and uncertainty about the future, unresolved issues from the past, and concerns about loved ones. Preexisting and…
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When Cure Is No Longer an Option: Rethinking Hopelessness and the Role of Spiritual Care
Carol Taylor, PhD, RN Abstract Increasingly in the U.S., health care clinicians fail to recognize and accept when curative goals are no longer realistic. At this point, futile efforts at cure can fuel false hopes in patients and their loved ones. The clinician’s need to be “doing something” may result in treatment that violates the…
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Third Season episode 25:A conversation with Joanna Wojtkowiak on death rituals and symbolic immortality in contemporary Dutch culture.
In today’s episode, Saul zooms into the Netherlands to talk to to Dr. Joanna Wojtkowiak. Dr. Wojtkowiak is an interdisciplinary researcher specialized in the research, education, and advising in the field of existential and spiritual care with a focus on meaning making, ritual, life and death experiences, and grief. Recently, she has been studying existential…
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Tips for Health-Conscious Grieving
By Camille Johnson When you grieve, whether it’s over the loss of a loved one, the end of a marriage, job termination, or another traumatic event, unhealthy habits sometimes develop. For instance, grief may lead to you eating too much or too little. However, you need to think about your health during this trying time. …
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Hospice Chaplain Documentation Webinar
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 Monday February 28th at 4:00pm Central Standard Time. The registration fee is only $40. The most scrutinized area for hospices by the U.S. centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is…
Hospice Chaplaincy 