Description:
From Home Health to Hospice: Mastering the Palliative Transition prepares clinicians to navigate one of the most emotionally complex moments in patient care. The point at which curative treatment no longer aligns with a patient’s condition, goals, or quality of life. This webinar focuses on leading difficult conversations when families aren’t ready to “give up,” equipping providers with the clinical insight and communication mastery needed to guide them through the shift toward palliative or hospice services.
The series blends clinical judgment, relational communication, documentation excellence, and cross‑agency collaboration ensuring patients receive the right level of care at the right time.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize clinical triggers that indicate palliative care appropriateness over continued home health.
- Master communication techniques for introducing palliative concepts without triggering family resistance.
- Develop staff protocols for managing declining patients while maintaining therapeutic relationships.
- Create transition documentation that supports continuity of care across service lines.
- Build referral networks with palliative and hospice providers for seamless handoffs.
- Implement quality metrics that demonstrate appropriate care level matching.
Faculty
Rory Farrand, MA, MS, MSN, APRN-BC
Rory Farrand is a clinical expert with more than 20 years of leadership in palliative care, including experience in clinical practice as well as within corporate services, training and development, field operations & customer service. Dynamic and personable, Rory is one of the nation’s leading experts in the field of palliative care operations, having experience in palliative business startup, clinical systems and operations, and day-to-day management of palliative clinical providers.
Rory is board certified as an adult nurse practitioner (ANCC). She has designed palliative care clinical education programs for multiple providers and contributed to numerous publications on hospice and palliative care, including the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing. She is a frequent public speaker on the subject of palliative care operations and service design, and travels frequently to perform onsite assessment of both new and established palliative programs for clients of Confidis.
Price
- Alliance Members: FREE
- Non-Members: $70
All listed times are for the Eastern Time Zone-