Orientation and annual in-service training for hospice aides and other hospice staff who have patient and family contact, structured against the Medicare Hospice Conditions of Participation at 42 CFR Part 418. The orientation set covers the hospice philosophy and the Medicare Hospice Benefit, the interdisciplinary group and scope of practice, the Conditions of Participation themselves, patient rights and advance directives (418.52), employee safety and emergency preparedness (418.113), and infection control (418.60) — the training 418.100(g) requires a hospice to provide at orientation. The annual set supplies documented in-service content toward the at-least-12-hours-per-12-month-period requirement that 418.76(d) places on every hospice aide: the physical care, emotional and developmental needs, and communication content areas that 418.76(b)(3) names; abuse, neglect and exploitation (418.52); grief and bereavement (418.64(d)); communication within the interdisciplinary group (418.56); QAPI (418.58); and elective in-service topics — caregiver burnout and cultural responsiveness — offered under the general in-service obligation at 418.100(g)(3). IMPORTANT — what this pathway does and does not do: it supplies the in-service CONTENT and the training RECORD (the written description of in-service training 418.100(g) requires a hospice to maintain). It does not, and cannot, discharge 418.76(d) on its own: in-service training must be supervised by a registered nurse, and the hospice aide competency evaluation under 418.76(c) is an observed demonstration of skills conducted by the agency's RN. Both remain the hospice's responsibility and are tracked here as agency-held external evidence. No accreditation, approval, or continuing-education credit is claimed for this coursework.
One organized view of what you have completed, what is still due, and what needs to be renewed.
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Each module shows the training or evidence that satisfies a requirement, when it is first due, and how often it must be renewed.
The orientation about the hospice philosophy that 418.100(g)(1) requires a hospice to provide to every employee and contracted staff member who has patient and family contact: hospice as a change of goal rather than a change of address, the patient and family as the unit of care, and the Medicare Hospice Benefit as it actually operates — eligibility and the six-month prognosis, benefit periods, certification and recertification, the election statement, the four levels of care, and the difference between revocation, discharge, and transfer. Approx. 50 minutes.
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The job-duty half of the orientation 418.100(g)(2) requires: who does what on the interdisciplinary group described at 418.56, where each discipline's scope ends, and when to call the nurse. Covers the aide's role under the plan of care and the reporting line to the registered nurse. Approx. 55 minutes.
42 CFR Part 418 for the staff whose work is being measured by it: what a Condition of Participation is, how survey and certification work, and the specific Conditions that govern day-to-day bedside practice — patient rights (418.52), the comprehensive assessment (418.54), the interdisciplinary group and plan of care (418.56), QAPI (418.58), infection control (418.60), and aide services (418.76). Approx. 60 minutes.
The rights 418.52 requires a hospice to protect and promote, the notice of rights and responsibilities the patient must receive before care begins, informed consent and self-determination, and what an advance directive and a DNR order actually say and do not say. Approx. 60 minutes.
Employee safety on home visits, OSHA obligations in someone else's house, and the hospice's all-hazards emergency preparedness plan, policies, and communication plan under 418.113. 418.113(d)(1)(i) requires initial emergency preparedness training for all new and existing employees, and 418.113(d)(1)(iii) requires it to be repeated at least every 2 years thereafter (not annually; the 2019 burden-reduction rule, 84 FR 51815, changed it from annual), so this row recurs every 730 days from the last completion. Approx. 60 minutes.
The infection-control program 418.60 requires a hospice to maintain — surveillance, prevention, and control of infections and communicable diseases — translated into standard precautions, hand hygiene, PPE, and safe practice in a private residence. Also covers the basic infection-control procedures 418.76(b)(3)(iv) names as a required hospice aide training content area, and the infection control education 418.60(c) requires a hospice to provide to employees. Approx. 55 minutes.
Comfort at the end of life — pain and symptom management, skin and mouth care, positioning, nutrition and fluid intake, and the changes of the last days. Covers hospice aide training content areas named at 418.76(b)(3): personal hygiene and grooming including nail and skin care and oral hygiene (ix), safe transfer techniques and ambulation (x), normal range of motion and positioning (xi), and adequate nutrition and fluid intake (xii). Approx. 65 minutes.
Fear, grief, presence, dignity, and the spiritual work at the bedside — the emotional needs half of the 418.76(b)(3)(viii) content area covering the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of and ways to work with the populations served by the hospice, including the need for respect for the patient, his or her privacy, and his or her property. Approx. 55 minutes.
Talking with the patient and the family at the bedside: hard conversations, questions an aide should and should not answer, and reporting what was said back to the team. Covers the communication skills content area at 418.76(b)(3)(i), including the ability to verbally report clinical information to patients, care givers, and other hospice staff. Approx. 50 minutes.
Recognizing and reporting abuse, neglect, exploitation, and misappropriation of patient property in a population where nearly every warning sign has an innocent clinical explanation. Supports the patient right at 418.52 to be free from mistreatment, neglect, and verbal, mental, sexual, and physical abuse, and the hospice's duty to investigate and report alleged violations. State mandated-reporter law is additional to this and is the agency's to apply. Approx. 55 minutes.
The family before and after the death, anticipatory grief, and the bereavement services a hospice owes the family for up to one year following the patient's death under the counseling services core requirement at 418.64(d). Approx. 60 minutes.
The interdisciplinary group, the plan-of-care review that 418.56(d) requires no less frequently than every 15 calendar days, and handoffs that actually transfer the job. Covers the observation, reporting, and documentation of patient status and the care or service furnished that 418.76(b)(3)(ii) names as a required aide training content area. Approx. 55 minutes.
Cumulative loss, compassion fatigue, and what actually helps in hospice work. This is elective in-service content: Part 418 does not name caregiver burnout as a required content area. It is offered under the general in-service training obligation at 418.100(g)(3) and counts toward the 12-hour in-service total at 418.76(d). Approx. 50 minutes.
Culture, religion, and family at the end of life — what to ask instead of what to assume. Offered under the general in-service training obligation at 418.100(g)(3) and supporting the 418.52 requirement that a hospice protect and promote each patient's rights and respect the patient and family as the unit of care. Part 418 does not name cultural competency as a standalone required content area. Approx. 55 minutes.
The QAPI program 418.58 requires every hospice to develop, implement, and maintain — the data the hospice reports, the measures it is judged on, and the part of that data each staff member personally produces at the bedside. Approx. 50 minutes.
42 CFR 418.76(d) requires every hospice aide to receive at least 12 hours of in-service training during each 12-month period. This requirement pools the whole hospice curriculum — the six orientation courses and the nine in-service courses — and is satisfied when the learner's completions inside the period total 12 credit hours. The platform counts one credit hour per course material, and each of these courses carries one material, so 12 completed hospice courses satisfy the rule as configured. TWO THINGS THIS REQUIREMENT DOES NOT DO: 418.76(d)(1) requires that in-service training be supervised by a registered nurse, and 418.76(c) requires an observed competency evaluation of the aide's skills. Neither is delivered by coursework; both stay with the agency and are tracked in the external-evidence requirements below. A manager who checks this pathway out may map additional products into this requirement to reflect in-service content delivered by the agency itself.
Applies to hospice aides. Before furnishing hospice aide services, an aide must meet one of the qualification routes at 418.76(a) — certification on the state nurse aide registry, a state-licensed training program, or a training program and competency evaluation that meet 418.76(b) and (c) — and 418.76(c)(1) requires the subject areas at (b)(3)(i), (iii), (ix), (x) and (xi) to be evaluated by OBSERVING the aide perform the task with a patient or pseudo-patient, while 418.76(c)(3) requires the competency evaluation to be performed by a registered nurse. No online course can discharge that. Upload the aide's CNA certificate, training program completion record, or completed competency evaluation form here so the pathway record is complete. Non-aide staff may be marked not applicable by the manager.
Applies to hospice aides. 418.76(d)(1) allows in-service training to be offered by any organization but requires it to be SUPERVISED BY A REGISTERED NURSE. Separately, 418.76(h)(1)(i) requires an RN on-site visit to the patient's home no less frequently than every 14 days to assess the quality of the hospice aide's care, and 418.76(h)(2) requires an annual on-site visit at which the RN observes and assesses each aide performing care. This is the agency's obligation, not the platform's. Upload the RN's attestation for the in-service period together with the aide supervisory visit records so that the 12-hour in-service requirement above is evidenced as RN-supervised. Renews annually alongside the in-service period.
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