Resources

Documents

• The case for community-based palliative care, from the Center to Advance Palliative Care

• The case for hospital palliative care, from the Center to Advance Palliative Care

Video Aides

• Palliative care overview, by Dr. Justin Baker and the TN Commission on Aging and Disability

• Making the case for palliative care, by Dr. Mohana Karlekar of VUMC

A self-study tutorial from the Center to Advance Palliative Care 

Documents

• Fast Facts on Prognostication from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

Video Aides

• Discussing Prognosis, from Vital Talk

• Offer Prognostic Information, a Vital Talk guide on "How to balance hope and realism" 

Documents

• Illness Trajectories: Description and clinical use from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Disease Trajectories from Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Video Aides

• Address Goals of Care, a Vital Talk guide on "Smoothing discussions about prognosis and treatment"

• Disclose serious news, from VitalTalk

• How to have difficult health-related conversations, a guide by Karen Hyden and the TN Commission on Aging and Disability

Documents

• Improving communication and symptom management skills, from the Center to Advance Palliative Care

• Calculating opioid dose conversions, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Equivelant ppioid calculator, from ClinCalc

• Corticosteroids for common palliative care symptoms, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

Documents

• General inpatient hospice care, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin 

• Role of the hospice and palliative care social worker, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Hospice benefits quiz from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Medicare hospice benefits: Levels of hospice care, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Medicare hospice benefit, special interventions, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

• Facts and firures, hospice care in America, 2016 edition, from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

A learning pathway from the Center to Advance Palliative Care

Documents

• Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST) form from the Tennessee Department of Health

• POST forms FAQs

• TN advance directives for health care form 

• Advance directives FAQs

Video Aides

• Advanced care directives by Dr. Greg Phelps and the TN Commission on Aging and Disability

• TN palliative care and advance care planning by Dr. Mohana Karlekar of VUMC

Documents

• What is palliative care? from the Tennessee Department of Health

• What is hospice? Information on Medicare hospice benefits from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin 

• Hospice coverage information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Video Aides

• Palliative care overview with Dr. Justin Baker and the TN Commission on Aging and Disability

Video Aides

• Discussing Prognosis, from VitalTalk

• Balancing hope with realism, from VitalTalk

Document

• Disease Trajectories from Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Documents

• Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST) form from the Tennessee Department of Health

• POST forms FAQs

• TN advance directives for health care form 

• Advance directives FAQs

Video Aides

• Advanced care directives by Dr. Greg Phelps and the TN Commission on Aging and Disability

• TN palliative care and advance care planning by Dr. Mohana Karlekar of VUMC