Professional Education

Healthcare Professionals

Professional Education Offerings

Care Dimensions is committed to providing comprehensive education and expert consultation to those serving patients at end of life. We offer more than 60 professional contact hour and non-contact hour courses on a wide range of topics.

Core Topics Covering:
 
  • Hospice
  • Palliative care
  • Grief
  • Advanced care planning
Pain/Symptom-Specific Topics Covering:
 
  • Assessment skills
  • Pain and symptom management interventions
  • Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments
Disease-Specific Topics Covering:
 
  • Cardiac diseases
  • Respiratory diseases
  • Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
  • Additional topics upon request
Resource/Support and Wellness Topics Covering:
 
  • Aging
  • Working with diverse populations
  • Caring for the professional caregiver (stress management, etc.)
  • Conversations about difficult topics and situations
  • Advance directives
  • Copng with various losses

For a full listing of all topics or to arrange programs, please contact Mary Crowe, Director of Professional and Community Education, at 888-283-1722 or email MCrowe@CareDimensions.org

Care Dimensions offers contact hours/CEUs for nursing, social work, certified case management, and licensed mental health counselors as appropriate.

To arrange programs, please contact Mary Crowe, Director of Professional and Community Education, at 888-283-1722 or email MCrowe@CareDimensions.org

 

"Mary Crowe has a gift for translating complex and uncomfortable end-of-life issues into clear, manageable concepts in an anxiety-reducing manner.  As one of my fellow attendees said, "I wish I had called hospice sooner, when my loved one was nearing the end of life."

~ Attendee, community presentation on palliative care and hospice services