Palliative Care Resources for
Case Studies & Training
Discuss disparities, values, challenges & strategies for delivering inclusive palliative care in a webinar focused on serving diverse communities.
Read a clinical journal article about how home-based palliative care led to lower hospital use & reduced costs.
Watch a short video about how palliative care significantly relieved advanced pain & improved functional status & mood for a patient with a recurrence of lung cancer & extended his life.
Comprehensive report showing the positive impact on patient quality of life & experience with patient stories, outcomes & statistics on reducing unnecessary utilization & costs.
Watch a caregiving daughter describe why the palliative care team is her "dream team." They gave her mother peace of mind after many years of living with young onset Alzheimer's & lifted her own stress, anxiety & depression.
Learn about key updates to physician payment & billing in a short summary covering advanced patient care management, advanced caregiver support & telehealth.
Identify care gaps & areas of distress including symptom burden, functional impairment & caregiver distress with evidence-based assessment tools. Embedded links include a spiritual distress scale & cancer distress thermometer.
Discover non-pharmacological methods for pain management that nurses can easily integrate into palliative care, such as massage therapy and virtual reality. This resource emphasizes proven, evidence-based approaches to improve patient comfort such as massage therapy and virtual reality.