Best Practices for Teaching Clinicians to Use a Serious Illness Conversation Guide

Overview

Journal Palliat Med Rep

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2021 Jul 5

PMID 34223467

Citations 14

Authors

Bethany-Rose Daubman

Rachelle Bernacki

Mark Stoltenberg

Erica Wilson

Juliet Jacobsen

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Abstract

With the palliative care workforce shortage and changes in advance care planning reimbursement, many institutions are requesting that palliative care specialists provide serious illness communication training across their institution's workforce. Based on our experience training clinicians to use the Partners Serious Illness Conversation Guide, a structured guide to teach basic palliative care communication skills, we propose a set of best practices to help others teach use of a communication guide at their institution, including fostering a safe learning environment, explicit teaching of structured communication, and preparing cofacilitators to adapt to differing skill levels of learners.

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