Hospice and Home Health Acupuncture
Online Continuing Education Trainings for Acupuncturists
6 NCCAOM PDAs including Safety and Ethics
In the Hospice and Home Health Acupuncture training you will learn:
- Practical skills for safely treating medically fragile patients, which may require a different approach than treating patients in a clinical setting.
- Strategies to connect compassionately with patients at the end of life.
- Ways to navigate home healthcare, including travel, general safety, and interactions with family and other caregivers.
- About the role of acupuncture in hospice care, both as a unique medical service and integrating within the hospice system and hospice team.
- About the stages of dying from the eastern and western perspectives.
Meet the challenges of this unique field
Gain clarity and confidence for working with patients at the end of life and home visits. Whether you work in hospice or simply want to have tools to provide comfort care for loved ones, patients, and their families.
Practical Skills
Gain clarity, confidence, and tools to work with patients at the end of life.
NCCAOM PDAs
Trainings qualify for NCCAOM Professional Development Activities including Safety and Ethics.
Online and Available Worldwide
Self-paced online course with lifetime access.
What learners have said
This course is very thorough, detailed and rich with content on a subject that has not received a lot of attention from the broader acupuncture community.
High-quality and well-organized information. Carly has specialized knowledge in the field of hospice care. It’s a great opportunity for someone to be able to share their experience working with this unique patient population.
I truly enjoyed this course especially since my father recently passed away and was in hospice care for a week prior to passing. The information that the teacher provided in this course was accurate specifically in the last week of my dying father.
This was a thorough explanation of all aspects of Hospice care. Many examples provided. Important topics repeated in various modules. Nice division of categories that can be viewed in short segments, at your leisure.
Acupuncture skills for hospice and end of life care
Hospice is comfort care at the end of life. The hospice team works to provide attentive care for each patient with minimal interventions. Although hospice is a specific medical designation, patients can be homebound for other reasons and greatly benefit from a practitioner treating them at home.
Acupuncture can relieve many symptoms associated with this stage of life without medications or side effects. Acupuncture is gentle, effective, and virtually painless, while bringing about a sense of well-being and relaxation.
About the instructor
Carly Herrero is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist in private practice in Bath, Maine. Her work in hospice began in 2002 as a nursing assistant and volunteer massage therapist at Our House of Portland, an HIV/AIDS residential care facility in Portland, OR.
Starting in 2018 she worked with the medical administration at Kaiser Permanente Hospice and Palliative Care Services in Vancouver, WA to implement acupuncture services for hospice patients after a successful pilot program.
She went on to provide acupuncture services at Assured Hospice in Olympia, WA for several years and continues as a consultant.
She served on the Washington Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Association (WAEMA) board of directors as secretary and chair of the continuing education committee from 2018 to 2020. She is currently a member of the Maine Acupuncture Society.
In addition to clinical practice she teaches workshops and classes for professionals and students on bodywork, eastern medicine, business, and ethics. She feels honored to be with patients near the end of life, and provide physical comfort as well as mental-emotional solace with this medicine.