POLARIS Modules

Module 1: Hospice and Palliative Nursing Overview
This overview provides learners with key concepts surrounding the holistic approach to hospice and palliative nursing. The module explores what it’s like to be a palliative care or hospice nurse and illustrates what it takes to be effective in delivering optimal patient- and family-centered nursing care.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 2: Exploring the Interdisciplinary Team, Care Coordination, and Settings
This module outlines the structures and processes of palliative care delivery, including interdisciplinary team roles and responsibilities, team communication and dynamics, and how the team supports delivery of optimal care across all settings.
Successful completion of this module results in 1.5 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 3: Facilitating Patient and Family Communication
Effective communication is vital to recognizing all aspects of a patient’s and family’s experience, including anticipatory grief and family needs. This module describes techniques to facilitate communication and gain skills necessary to hold difficult conversations, including advance care planning discussions. 
Successful completion of this module results in 2.5 hours of Nursing Continuing Education.
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Module 4: Performing a Holistic Assessment for the Seriously Ill
This module is designed to provide a holistic approach to performing a comprehensive assessment of a palliative care or hospice patient, including physical, psychosocial, and spiritual components. Creating a plan of care that focuses on the needs of the patient and family is also covered.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 5: Assessing Pain: Principles and the Use of Validated Tools
This module presents learners with principles of a comprehensive pain assessment and links validated assessment tools and techniques. It explores the types of pain, common misconceptions, and perceived barriers to an optimal pain assessment.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.5 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 6: Managing Pain: Nonpharmacological and Pharmacological Interventions
Several topics related to pain management are covered in this module, including the effects of unrelieved pain and its impact on functional status and quality of life. Both nonpharmacological and pharmacological approaches are addressed. The module includes guidelines on the use of opioids, equianalgesic conversion guidelines, and other therapeutic interventions available to support optimal pain management for patients with serious illness.
Successful completion of this module results in 3.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education.
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Module 7: Managing Symptoms: Cardiac and Respiratory 
This module provides the learner with an overview of common symptoms that are encountered in patients who experience cardiac and respiratory issues. This module describes the etiologies, characteristics, and interventions for these conditions and introduces strategies to help improve the functional status and quality of life for patients. It includes both nonpharmacological and pharmacological treatment options.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.5 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 8: Managing Symptoms: GI, GU, and Integumentary
This module provides the learner with an overview of common symptoms that are encountered in patients who experience GI, GU, and integumentary issues. This module describes the etiologies, characteristics, and interventions for these conditions and introduces strategies to help improve the functional status and quality of life for patients. It includes both nonpharmacological and pharmacological treatment options.
Successful completion of this module results in 3.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 9: Managing Neurological and Psychological Symptoms
This module provides the learner with an overview of common symptoms encountered in patients who experience neurological issues and addresses common mental health challenges that are often seen with palliative care and hospice patients. This module describes the etiologies, characteristics, and interventions for these conditions and introduces strategies to help improve the functional status and quality of life for patients. It includes both nonpharmacological and pharmacological treatment options. 
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 10: Illness Progression and Urgent Syndromes Overview
This module provides insight into the expected disease trajectories and characteristics of advanced illnesses, such as cancer, advanced heart failure, advanced lung disease, end-stage liver disease, advanced renal failure, and dementia. It also explores potential urgent medical syndromes near the end of life secondary to disease progression.
Successful completion of this module results in 3.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 11: Care of the Patient Nearing the End of Life
This module provides insight into the active dying process and the nurse’s role in caring for patients nearing the end of life. It addresses common symptoms that occur when death is nearing and shares interventions that can help ease family concerns during this critical period.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 12: Exploring Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
Medical care in today’s world is quite complex; numerous advances in technology provide a wide array of potential treatment options for patients and caregivers. This module covers key ethical principles and challenges that may occur in palliative and hospice care. 
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Module 13: Integrating Self-Care Strategies
Caring for those with serious illness can be difficult to cope with for the palliative care professional. This module addresses the importance of integrating self-care strategies to manage moral distress and the impact of compassion fatigue.
Successful completion of this module results in 2.0 hours of Nursing Continuing Education. 
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Refund Policy
HPNA does not offer refunds or cancellation on individual stand-alone POLARIS module purchases.