In 2025, HPNA is bringing you a new webinar each month—entirely free for members! Explore the webinar series that covers timely, relevant topics designed to support hospice and palliative care nurses below. Access all free education offered by HPNA here.
Leveraging Clinical Informatics in Palliative Care
The HPNA Recorded Webinar Series presents Leveraging Clinical Informatics in Palliative Care, a webinar exploring the growing role of informatics in hospice and palliative care. Presented by an experienced APRN and Epic Provider Builder from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, this webinar highlights how informatics can enhance clinical documentation, improve interdisciplinary communication, and support data-driven quality improvement.
Through real-world examples, learners will understand how structured data collection and thoughtful Electronic Health Record (EHR) design can help capture the complex patient and family journeys central to palliative care—balancing the art of individualized care with the science of informatics.
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Career Cartography: Mapping Your Legacy with the Guidance of Mentors
In this engaging and reflective webinar, Masako Mayahara, PhD, RN, FAAN, CHPN®, FPCN®, introduces the concept of Career Cartography, a process that guides clinicians to chart their professional paths through mentorship, reflection, and intentional growth.
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Pediatric Ethics in Serious Illness: The Nurse’s Role in Supporting Children and Families
Caring for children with serious illness presents unique ethical challenges that require sensitivity, clinical insight, and moral clarity. This recorded webinar explores foundational and advanced concepts in pediatric ethics, including shared decision-making, assessing best interests, navigating uncertainty, and supporting families through difficult choices.
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Navigating Pain Management in Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment: Assessment, Tools, and Treatment Strategies
Children with severe neurologic impairment (SNI) often experience chronic pain that is difficult to identify and treat due to communication limitations and complex clinical presentations. This recorded webinar offers a structured approach to recognizing, assessing, and managing pain in this vulnerable population.
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Planning with Purpose: Pediatric Advance Care Planning in Practice
Pediatric advance care planning (ACP) is a unique and often misunderstood aspect of serious illness care. While adult ACP focuses on autonomy and future decision-making, pediatric ACP requires an approach centered on developmental stages, family dynamics, and evolving clinical trajectories.
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Communicating and Caring for the Dying Pediatric Patient and Their Family
Providing care for dying pediatric patients and their families presents unique emotional, clinical, and communication challenges. In this one-hour HPNA recorded webinar, participants will explore the complex dynamics that contribute to stress and distress during moments of crisis and gain practical tools to support families through one of the most vulnerable times in their lives.
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Dementia: Guiding the Way
With dementia cases expected to double by 2060, the urgency to redesign care models is clear. This webinar explores the evolving landscape of dementia care in the United States, where wide variability in standards often leaves patients and families without consistent, compassionate support. Grounded in the principle that dementia care is palliative care, this presentation highlights innovative early intervention models in the primary care space, including the landmark GUIDE model, and underscores the critical role nurses play in driving these frameworks forward. Attendees will gain insights into scalable, nurse-led solutions that prioritize quality of life from the point of diagnosis—offering both a call to action and a roadmap for change.
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Program Development Metrics & Ethics
The 2025 Recorded Webinar Series presents Program Development Metrics & Ethics with Danielle DiGennaro, MSN, ARNP-BC, ACHPN®. This webinar offers an in-depth exploration of palliative care program development through the lens of quality, operations, and ethical considerations. Participants will define key elements of palliative care programs, compare various models of care delivery, and assess program effectiveness using metrics that align with compassionate, person-centered values.
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MAiD & VSED: End-of-Life Options
This recorded webinar explores End of Life Options, focusing on Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) and Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED) featuring real-life case studies. Learn to define MAiD and VSED, understand the protocols for Medical Aid in Dying, and gain valuable insights on how to provide accurate information and support to patients and families. This webinar will also equip you with the tools to guide nurse colleagues and organizations in understanding these critical end-of-life options.
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Communication in Palliative Care Nursing
The 2025 Recorded Webinar Series presents Communication in Palliative Care Nursing with Kristine Dukart-Harrington, DNP, RN, AGNP-C, ACHPN®. This webinar explores the critical role of communication skills in palliative care nursing, emphasizing their significance in improving patient and family outcomes.
Attendees will review practical models including SPIKES, REMAP, COMFORT, NURSE(s), and others that support skill-building for effective communication in serious illness care. Additionally, the webinar encourages reflection on key communication principles to enhance and guide personal palliative care nursing practice.
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APRN Practice & Leadership: Advanced Approaches to Pain Management in Palliative Care
This webinar features evidence-based, person-centered pain assessment and management of complex palliative care cases. Through engaging storytelling and advanced insights, Dr. Paice covers critical topics such as evaluating substance use disorder (SUD) risk factors, addressing challenges with legacy patients, and attending to mental health concerns. With strategies for advocating compassionately in the face of opioid concerns, this session offers valuable guidance for navigating the toughest cases, while maintaining empathy and leadership.
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Understanding Hospice Billing: Demonstrating Your Value in Quality Care
This webinar explores hospice case studies to unpack key billing codes, recent updates, and to provide practical tips for improving billing accuracy and efficiency. This webinar also highlights the importance of nursing-intensive visits, offering advocacy strategies and messaging that Registered Nurses can share with supervisors to help meet quality metrics and enhance patient care outcomes.
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The Basics on APRN Billing in Hospice and Palliative Care
This webinar is part one of a three-part series on billing for APRNs.
This webinar examines the underlying requirements for coding and billing physician services in the End-of-Life care setting. Learners will review covered billable services and activities, the nuances that apply to APRNs in the hospice setting, and discuss the billing process, including proper use of CPT codes and modifiers.
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Nuances of APRN Coding and Billing in Hospice and Palliative
This webinar is part two of a three-part series on billing for APRNs.
When a patient is receiving hospice or palliative care, billing for patient care services can be very complex. CPT codes vary based on the location of service as well as the practitioner’s role with respect to the patient and the hospice and/or palliative care program. The role of medical necessity and its part in substantiating billable visits can be challenging as well.
This webinar discusses optimizing the revenue potential of APRN services provided and incorporating clinical indicators into documentation to establish the need for ongoing medically necessary intervention.
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Optimizing Revenue in APRN HPC Billing
This webinar is part three of a three-part series on billing for APRNs.
Building on the prior two sessions and knowledge, this webinar focuses on optimizing revenue opportunities through an understanding of codes, combinations, and documentation. Additionally, this course follows the coding and billing scenarios available to an APRN utilizing a patient’s journey from a palliative care admission through a hospice “Celestial Discharge.”
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