Compassionate Conversations - Professional Training

Advance Care Planning is best done when one's values and beliefs are joined with the clinical information and relevant conversations prior to a healthcare crisis. The result will be all players hearing, understanding, respecting and ultimately honoring one's wishes for their end of life care.

ACP training provides a higher level of comfort and confidence in trainees. Attendees will be able to assess client’s readiness, do simple exercises that identify values and goals of care, decrease anxiety and fear, and build trust.

Identifying the client's understanding, or lack of understanding, of their physical state
Identifying the client's desire for more information regarding anticipated prognosis
Identifying possible related quality of life issues, (i.e., need for increased care)
Encouraging and empowering people to be involved in future medical care overall
Writing questions to succinctly ask healthcare providers about one's disease processes
Eliciting information about the client's likely future scenarios, benefits and burdens, anticipated changes in functional capabilities and need for increased levels of care
Community Resources for care:

Home health
Private duty
Durable medical equipment
Hospice and Palliative Care
Extended Care Facilities / Nursing Homes

Empowering all to hear, understand, respect and ultimately honor one's wishes for their end of life, care, always upholding the patient's wishes as the gold standard for the plan of care
Ways to engage family members who are resistant to the issues and discussions
Follow up support for trainees

Professional Training

ACP Professional Training Objectives