Primary Palliative Care Skills for Every Nurse

Session Summary

Nurses are uniquely positioned to recognize when aggressive treatment may no longer serve a patient’s goals, yet many feel unprepared to initiate the shift toward comfort-focused care. This session delivers practical, bedside-ready palliative strategies to empower nurses to manage symptoms, initiate meaningful conversations, and advocate for goal-concordant care. Through interactive examples and real-world tools, attendees are equipped to lead with clarity and compassion, even in all practice settings.

Objectives

Identify three palliative care symptoms nurses can manage independently.
Demonstrate language nurses can use to initiate goal-aligned care discussions.
Explain how palliative skills reduce nurse burnout and improve team communication.

Topics Palliative/End-of-life Care

Population Adult

Role Staff

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Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.

Disclosure

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.

Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.