Five Wishes Certified Presenter
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Five Wishes Certified Facilitator
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Five Wishes Certification is a competency-based program for those who want to achieve excellence in their advance care planning work. Five Wishes Certification recognizes your commitment to completing specialized training in advance care planning, and your demonstration of specific knowledge and skills.Improve
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Advance Care Planning Facilitator
Complete Package (Courses & Certification): $400 Certification Fees Only (must provide required course completion certificates): $235
The Five Wishes Certified Facilitator program is for healthcare professionals whose work involves facilitating advance care planning conversations. The program is designed to enhance your knowledge, ability, and skill in facilitating compassionate, effective conversations with patients, families, and decision-makers.
Apply- Comprehensive training through three Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator training courses
- Continuing education credit of 3.0 hours for nurses and social workers
- Mentoring - Consistent, regular support from expert mentors through quarterly Web meetings for our community of Five Wishes Certified Facilitators
- Access to Webinars featuring in-depth topic exploration and best practice examples and peers
- Exclusive access to tools for Five Wishes Facilitators
- Exclusive access to patient education resources
- Frameable personalized Certificate
- 5% discount on Five Wishes Products
- Successfully complete three Five Wishes online training courses available through Hospice Foundation of America and pass final exams with a score of 80%
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning for Serious Illness
- Demonstrate specific facilitation skills and knowledge competencies via online interview and evaluation sessions
Advance Care Planning Presenter
The Five Wishes Certified Presenter program is for professionals and volunteers in any field or profession who want to deliver community education presentations about advance care planning using Five Wishes. This includes community outreach and education staff or professionals, attorneys, financial planners, faith community leaders or members, civic group leaders, speaker’s bureau members, community health workers, and others. The program is designed to enhance your knowledge, ability, and confidence in providing Five Wishes advance care planning educational presentations to communities.
Apply- Access to the Five Wishes Presenter Foundations course
- Continuing education credit of 1.5 hours for nurses and social workers
- Consistent, regular support from expert mentors through quarterly Web meetings for our community of Five Wishes Certified Presenters
- Access to Practice Community quarterly webinars featuring in-depth topic exploration and best practice examples
- Exclusive access to tools for Five Wishes Certified Presenters
- Exclusive access to community education resources
- Frameable personalized Certificate
- 5% discount on Five Wishes Products
- Successfully complete the Five Wishes Presenter Foundations online training course available through Hospice Foundation of America and pass final exam with a score of 80%
- Demonstrate specific presentation skills and knowledge competencies via online interview and evaluation sessions
Complete Package (Courses & Certification): $305 Certification Fees Only (must provide required course completion certificates): $235
Five Wishes Certifications for Teams
A team approach can help your organization reach important advance care planning program goals and outcomes through consistent training and support. Empower your staff by investing in Five Wishes Certifications.
Organizations who sponsor five or more applicants receive a discount on Certification program fees.
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Some people facilitate advance care planning conversations and deliver community presentations. Here are some tips to help you choose your Certification path.
- If you facilitate advance care planning conversations with patients your healthcare organization serves and/or supervise those who do as a significant part of your work, we recommend the Five Wishes Certified Facilitator program.
- If you deliver community education presentations as the most significant part of your work and occasionally facilitate advance care planning conversations with community members, we recommend the Five Wishes Certified Presenter program.
- If you facilitate advance care planning conversations with people who are seriously ill, we recommend the Five Wishes Certified Facilitator Program.
Schedule a consultation with us. We will help you through the process, and you’ll receive a discount on Certification fees when you sponsor five or more staff members.
Yes. All of the courses are available outside of the Certification program. You can take one, some, or all of them. Visit our Five Wishes Online Training page to access the courses.
The Certification programs include access to the required Five Wishes Online Training courses and continuing education hours, plus competency demonstrations and interviews, three full years of ongoing support and mentoring to enhance your practice and maintain your skills, exclusive access to helpful tools and resources only for Five Wishes Certified individuals, a 5% discount on Five Wishes products, and much more. You can learn more about what Five Wishes Certifications require and include under the “requirements” and “benefits” tabs on each Five Wishes Certification program description above.
At this time, we do not offer scholarships for Five Wishes Certifications. We understand the financial challenges of purchasing high-quality professional training and mentoring, and have priced both our courses and Certification fees to be as accessible as possible while allowing us to provide meaningful tools, solid ongoing support, and the necessary infrastructure. If you have an employer, we are available to help you make a case to your organization to support your training.
- Successfully complete three Five Wishes online training courses available through Hospice Foundation of America and pass final exams with a score of 80%
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills
- Five Wishes Advance Care Planning for Serious Illness
- Demonstrate specific facilitation skills and knowledge competencies via online interview and evaluation sessions
The primary purpose of the Five Wishes Certified Presenter program is to empower people with the skills and knowledge to deliver well-prepared community education presentations that include correct information and meaningful messaging about advance care planning, so that people in communities across the country who are in the most need of this information can receive it from a skilled and effective presenter. While we do not encourage or endorse charging fees to individuals for attending Five Wishes community presentations, we understand that some professional presenters may choose to do so for their own reasons.
If you charge attendance or ask for donations for delivering Five Wishes presentations, you must use the following written disclaimer in your promotions, and it must be announced verbally at the beginning of your presentation: “Any and all costs or donations for attending this presentation are unrelated to, do not in any way provide income for, and are not set or endorsed by Five Wishes or Aging with Dignity.”
When you purchase your Certification program, you will receive links to each required course and access instructions. We will guide you through completing your training requirements.
All required courses are approved for continuing education through the following boards:
- National Association of Social Work Boards (NASW). This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers. Accepted/recognized in all states except NJ, NY, & WV. Program and online CE process must be completed prior to expiration for NASW CE hours to be awarded.
- Montana Nurses Association (an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation). Most states recognize ANCC Accreditation (N08) but please verify with your individual state board.
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
- California Board of Registered Nursing
- Florida Board of Nursing
- Certificate of Attendance is available, which you can submit to boards not included on this list.
Five Wishes Certifications mean that you have successfully completed the required training courses, and have successfully demonstrated through personal interviews the required skills and knowledge competencies. Five Wishes Certifications are not credentialed or recognized by an accrediting organization.
The Five Wishes Community presentation PowerPoint, presentation notes, frequently asked questions guide, tip sheets for promoting your presentations, hosting and setting up, and preparing, a guide to doing your own advance care planning, a community awareness poster, and three community education handouts. New tools and materials will be added on a regular basis.
A quick guide for facilitating conversations, a handy outline of assessment and exploration tasks for facilitators, a tip sheet on exploring values and experiences, tip sheets for making the case and building a strong advance care planning at your organization, a guide to doing your own advance care planning, two patient awareness posters, and three patient education handouts. New tools and materials will be added on a regular basis.
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Once you log in to your account (or set up your account if you do not already have one), complete your Five Wishes Certification application. Once you have completed your application, you will see instructions on your Certification Dashboard, and you’ll receive instructions by email for all the rest of the steps. We will guide you through.