HPNA Webinar Series

Communication in Palliative Care Nursing

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.

APRN Practice & Leadership: Advanced Approaches to Pain Management in Palliative Care

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.

Understanding Hospice Billing: Demonstrating Your Value in Quality Care

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.

The Basics on APRN Billing in Hospice and Palliative Care

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.

Nuances of APRN Coding and Billing in Hospice and Palliative

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.

Optimizing Revenue in APRN HPC Billing

1.0 NCPD Contact Hour

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.”