In skilled nursing facilities (SNF), effective communication between interdisciplinary
team (IDT) members, patients, residents, and their surrogates is essential to provide
high-quality palliative and end of life (EOL) care. However, clinical staff in the
SNF setting often lack specialized communication skills training best suited for palliative
and EOL care needs. There is a paucity of educational curricula for teaching these
skills at SNF's and little data defining their clinical implications. Our pilot test
aims to establish and teach a communication-skills training model to standardize EOL
and palliative care communication skills in SNF’s.
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