Learning Opportunities for You & Your Staff

Your Own Tuition-Free Hospice University

HospiScript offers industry-leading educational resources that provide your hospice team with immediate access to practical clinical information to help them enhance patient care. HospiScript provides an array of tools and resources designed specifically for hospice.

In addition to our newsletters and continuing education through two-day regional conferences and monthly "lunch & learn" seminars, our hospice partners have hospice-specific tools and resources at their fingertips. The Hospi-U™ Resource Center includes access to:

• HospiScript Quarterly Newsletters (current/archived) — Provides news that matters to hospice.
• Guidelines for Effective Management of Symptoms (GEMS) — Invaluable clinical tools developed through collaboration between the HospiScript Clinical Team and hospice and palliative experts throughout the country. The GEMs are evidenced based, peer reviewed resources for managing common end-of-life symptoms. They are included within the Palliative Care Consultant publication, a comprehensive algorithm based resource that in combination with your hospice specific formulary, provides a powerful tool for cost effective clinical decision making.
• Fast Facts and Concepts — Peer reviewed outlines of key information on important end-of-life clinical topics for educators and clinicians. This resource is provided through the End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center which is supported by the Medical College of Wisconsin.
• Lexi-Comp® Online™ Drug Database — Includes 14 clinical reference databases as well as:
  • Adult & Pediatric Patient Advisory Leaflets in up to 18 languages
  • Lexi-Interact™ for patient specific drug interaction screening
  • Lexi-Drug ID™ for pill identification
  • King® Guide to Parenteral Admixtures
  • Web Search to review other medically-based websites
  • Pharmacy Quick Links (New Drugs/Special Alerts/FDA Shortages & Recalls)
• Recorded Series Seminars — Informative educational programs can be accessed by hospice staff members at their convenience and offer continuing education (CE) credit via independent study.
• HospiLink™ (current/archived) — Hospice and palliative care specific abstracting service linking you to the newest medical literature allowing you to stay current by investing only ten (10) minutes every two weeks.
• HospiScript Clinical Library — Clinical documents with information to keep you informed. For example:
  • Methadone Protocol, SQ Administration Protocol
  • Hospice Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) and Hospice Talking Points
  • Drug Information Responses (Rilutek in end stage ALS, etc.)

We've invested heavily in giving you the kind of continuing educational resources you can use to provide quality patient care.