This self-paced course familiarizes you with the importance of empathy and compassion and how they play a key role in providing care for patients.
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Online self-paced
Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced)
Description
The purpose of this module is to introduce you to the importance of empathy and compassion and how they play a key role in providing care for patients. This course will walk you through how to show empathy and how its positive impacts can lead to better patient outcomes. To help develop strong empathic healthcare professionals, strategies and tips for managing compassion fatigue/burnout and how to properly set professional boundaries will also be covered.
At the completion of this module, you will be able to:
- Define and understand the positive effects and impacts of empathy and compassion.
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Explain the language of empathy and ways to show it.
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Manage compassion fatigue/burnout and set professional boundaries.
This is course #2124 for IHSS Career Pathways and CalGrows. It is part of the Adult Education Pathway, which is a general pathway, and is eligible for the Career Builder incentive in CalGrows.
This course is self-paced and expected to take roughly three hours to complete. If you need to pause for any reason, you can save progress and come back to resume it when ready. Courses should be completed within 30 days of starting them.
To register for this course, click the registration link and input your information. The security code for Homebridge Career Pathways courses is 744016. You will receive an email to activate your email, and upon activation you will have access to all Homebridge On-Demand classes.
