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Palliative and Hospice Care I

Graduate Badge

Grand Rapids • Online • 3 Credits

Palliative care is specialized medical care focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness, aiming to improve the quality of life for both patients and their families.

Overview

Grand Valley State University's Palliative and Hospice Care I Graduate Badge program offers an in-depth understanding of palliative and hospice care through a three-credit online course. This program focuses on the history, philosophy, and essential skills needed for holistic end-of-life care.

The course covers:

Interdisciplinary Care Delivery.
Pain and Symptom Management.
Strategies for addressing complex symptoms and grief.

Studying this program at GVSU provides valuable insights into delivering compassionate care to terminally ill patients. The online format offers flexibility, and completing the badge enhances marketable skills, making graduates valuable in the palliative and hospice care field.

A digital badge, or badge, is a record of achievement that recognizes a student's completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. GVSU offers both credit and non-credit bearing badges as digital credentials. Credit-bearing badges include anywhere from 0.5 to 15 academic credits and may include additional noncredit criteria. Credit-bearing badges are also posted to the academic transcript.

Admission Information

Applicants should hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; you must submit an official transcript from your baccalaureate degree granting institution. It is not required to be admitted to a graduate degree program to complete the badge. To start your application, click here.

For current GVSU students:

Declare your badge via myBanner. Login to Banner Self-Service, click on Student, Student Records, Add a Certificate or Badge to your Program, Select the appropriate badge from the drop down list, and click Submit.
Speak with the appropriate badge coordinator to ensure criteria are being met. You will be able to track your progress toward the badge in myPath as well!
Once you are done with the requirements, apply to receive the badge via myBanner.
Once the completion of your badge has been verified, the badge will be posted to your student record and will be viewable on your transcript. In addition, your digital badge will be posted on Credly.com.

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Program Website

Kirkhof College of Nursing

gvsu.edu/kcon
301 Michigan St. NE, Suite 453
(616) 331-3558

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Scholarships

Grand Valley State University offers a wide variety of merit-based scholarships. For information on all of the scholarships that are available to students, please visit Scholarships at GVSU.

Grand Valley offers myScholarships (a scholarship matching tool) to help admitted students match with GVSU scholarships, as well as external scholarship opportunities. myScholarships will prompt you to answer questions to help match you to scholarships for which you might qualify.

A Stepping�Stone To Palliative & Hospice Care II

This badge is the first in a twobadge sequence. Palliative & Hospice Care I builds foundational knowledge, while the second badge deepens:

Clinical assessment
Advanced symptom management
Complex casework

Together, they form a stackable graduate credential.

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