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The Last Weeks: Hospice, Serious News and the Goodbye
The Last Weeks: Hospice, Serious News and the Goodbye is a 1-contact-hour course from HIVE Nurse, built by nurses for nurses. Families ask the nurse first. Ten short lessons on hospice eligibility and the benefit, serious news, the last hours and the goodbye.
At a glance
- Type
- Course
- Contact hours
- 1.0 contact hour
- Price
- $9, or included with HIVE Unlimited
- Format
- Online, self-paced
- Lessons
- 10 short lessons, then a post-test and evaluation
- Built by
- Elizabeth Miller Walters
- Provider
- Florida Board of Nursing CE Provider #50-57054
What you will be able to do
- State hospice eligibility in terms of prognosis and goals rather than imminence, describe what the hospice benefit covers, and identify the clinical changes that follow a shift to comfort-focused goals.
- Describe how you would open a goals-of-care conversation with a specific patient or family in your own setting.
Lessons
- I Thought I Knew Hospice
- Not Yet Hospice
- The Hardest Goodbye
- Four Drops, and I'll Stay
- What Number Do I Call
- Hospice Is Not for the Last Week
- What Hospice Actually Brings
- The Orders Changed at Noon
- The First Question in a Goals-of-Care Conversation
- The Last Hours
How to take it
Open it in the HIVE Nurse app on your phone or computer. A free account keeps your progress and your certificate in your Career Tracker; your first contact hour each month is free.