• • 3 online training modules include 3 hours of continuing education credits (nursing, social work, mental health counseling). It is the most advanced and comprehensive training option for clinicians.
• • Courses are delivered through Hospice Foundation of America’s online learning platform and are available for one year from the day of purchase. Enrollment details are sent by email after purchase.
• • Sample rsources provided:  5 Five Wishes, 2 Conversation Guides for Individuals and Families, 1 Conversation Guide for Clinicians
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Audience:

This course is appropriate for clinicians who facilitate advance care planning conversations with individuals.  Unlike the Presenter Training, which focuses on providing public presentations and education to groups of people, the Facilitator Training focuses on assisting individuals as they complete their advance directive.  It is most useful for healthcare professionals who engage directly with patients, families, and caregivers.

Online training modules include:

1. Facilitator Foundations – 1 Continuing Education hour.  This is the foundational Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning course designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with individuals, families, and decision-makers in healthcare settings. This course provides an introduction and overview of the benefits, components, and characteristics of effective advance care planning, and outlines how to use the Five Wishes® framework to guide conversations and ensure they address what is most important in facilitating high-quality advance care planning. This course prepares learners for more advanced Five Wishes advance care planning courses.

2. Facilitator Communication Skills – 1 Continuing Education hour.   Building on the course titled Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations, this Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning course is designed to enhance your knowledge, ability, and skill in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with patients, families, and decision-makers. This course provides an overview of essential communication and conversation skills, important areas for assessment and exploration, and special considerations for sensitively engaging in advance care planning discussions. You will learn behaviors and practices that demonstrate compassionate, person-centered communication, and help you effectively facilitate values-based end-of-life care discussions.
3. Planning for Serious Illness – 1 Continuing Education hour.  This Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning for Serious Illness course provides an overview of key concepts and skills for facilitating effective and sensitive advance care planning and goals of care conversations with people at various stages of serious illness. It outlines considerations to ensure that advance care planning and goals of care conversations empower and equip people to make medically-informed treatment and end-of-life treatment choices that are consistent with their goals and values, and are likely to be honored.  This course is appropriate for clinicians who have completed the Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations course and the Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills course, or for those who have a firm understanding of the purpose, process, and components of effective advance care planning, and who possess a basic level of the communication skills involved.