Colorado’s Source for Comprehensive Palliative Care Education
In our culture, we find it difficult to talk about death as a natural part of life. Often, patients with life-limiting illnesses and their care teams avoid the subject and thus may fail to embrace palliative care. Choosing palliative care offers an opportunity to improve the quality of care over the course of illness – and thereby enhance quality of life.
Effective palliative care requires a knowledgeable team
Each member of the palliative care team is an equal partner, with the patient and their family controlling the care decisions. As a member of the palliative care team, you might be a physician, nurse, hospital discharge planner, or other healthcare provider. You may be a chaplain, minister, social worker, volunteer, or home healthcare or hospice caregiver. Or you may be the patient or a family member, friend, or neighbor.
Whatever your role on the care team, you will benefit from education on all aspects of palliative care.
We invite you to review our presentations, programs, and conferences to increase your understanding of palliative care and improve the care you provide to each patient challenged by an advanced disease.
Knowledge empowers and enriches – Life Quality Institute is your source for palliative care education.
Life Quality Institute advances the understanding and quality of palliative care through education. Our educational topics include:
- Assessing and healing spiritual pain
- Understanding grief and the mourning process
- Discerning professional boundaries for healthcare workers
- Managing common and distressing symptoms in advanced illness
- Developing a community of care to share the journey
- Understanding advance directives and surrogate healthcare decision making
- Mitigating pain and related symptoms
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