For Healthcare Professionals
The Institute for Human Caring offers physicians, nurses, social workers,
chaplains, case managers and others continuing education and advanced
training to support whole person care.
The Institute’s provider education portfolio emphasizes ongoing communication,
goals-of-care clarification, and shared decision-making, as well as pain
and symptom management.
Resources for Healthcare Professionals
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning is a process which could include completing one or
more of the following:
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Advance Directive: A legal document that an individual completes in advance that indicates
the kind of care they would want if they were in an accident or were to
become seriously ill. In addition, an advance directive allows an individual
to name an agent or surrogate that can make health care decisions on their
behalf in the event they can’t speak for themselves.
Link to Advance Directives by state.
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Trusted Decision Maker: At most Providence locations, patients with decision-making capacity
can now verbally designate a trusted decision maker for documentation
in their health record. A trusted decision maker note is not a legal document.
It does not take place of state laws.
Download sample Trusted Decision Maker
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Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST): A physician order that outlines a plan of care reflecting a patient’s
wishes concerning care at life’s end.
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Goals of Care Conversation: A conversation with patients facing serious illness. The Institute for
Human Caring provides Advanced Communication Training to all clinicians
who want to talk to patients about their goals, preferences, and priorities.
Advanced Communication Training
Advanced Communication Training
This 2 ½ hour interactive training program fills a significant gap
for clinicians who seek to improve communication with patients with serious
illness and to implement the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG)
as a tool to facilitate ‘Goals of Care’ conversations in their
practice. During the training, clinicians learn skills to develop a personalized
care plan for patients and families living with serious illness. To join
or schedule a training at your site, email humancaring@providence.org
ACP Decisions
Advance Care Planning (ACP) Decisions
Video “prescriptions” for clinicians to help foster meaningful
and sometimes difficult conversations with patients. Providence clinicians
can access these videos for free by clicking
here. Select the folder for your state to access a site-specific username and
password.
CAPC
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Providence caregivers have free access to more than 45 CME/CEU-certified
courses. Courses range in topics from Advance Care Planning Conversations
to Pain Management. To create an account go to
https://www.capc.org/, select the name of your ministry, and using your work email address, create
a username and password.
Hear Me Now
Hear Me Now
A partnership with StoryCorps® to record interviews with patients,
family and caregivers. Storytelling and listening have proven clinical
value, and are keys to whole person care. For more information on Hear Me Now,
click here.