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Five Wishes in Healthcare

Accomplish your program goals with clear, proven, and comprehensive solutions for healthcare. Solutions that work with the most widely used person-centered advance directive in the country.

Easily train healthcare providers

Online modules, with continuing education credits, are available for one-on-one facilitators and community presenters. Organizations that provide staff training via Relias have an additional option. Schedule a consultation to learn which training is best for you or your team.

Training for Facilitators Traning for Community Presenters
Training

Paper or digital options

Healthcare providers can offer both the traditional Five Wishes booklet or the Five Wishes Digital option. Many people like the traditional booklet format because it is easy to complete with other friends and family together. The digital option makes it easy to complete Five Wishes on screen, save a completed PDF, and even sign the document digitally where permitted.

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Five Wishes

Make it easy to start challenging conversations

Two different conversation guides make the advance care planning discussion easier with prompts on how to introduce the topic and answers to common questions. The Conversation Guide for Clinicians helps healthcare professionals bring up the topic with patients and caregivers. The Conversation Guide for Individuals & Families gives tips on communicating with loved ones and preparing patients for their discussion with a clinician.

Clinician Guide Individual & Family Guide
Conversation Guides

Reach people before a health crisis

Beyond serving your staff and patients, consider how simple outreach would increase the number of people who plan BEFORE a health crisis. Provide Five Wishes to your community's employers, churches and places of worship, senior centers, civic organizations, and support groups. The Conversation Guide for Communities offers practical tips on giving a Five Wishes presentation to a group. The Five Wishes Instructional Video can be shared on your website and beyond.

Community Presenter's Guide Instructional Video
Community Outreach

Healthcare Resources

We have created several free resources to help you start, strengthen, and improve your advance care planning programs and services.

  • Five Wishes Webinars – A variety of topical webinars addressing important issues and best practices
  • Five Wishes Video – Great for staff training for healthcare

Webinars Instructional Video
Healthcare Resources

Custom / Co-Branding

Use Five Wishes to build your identity and brand awareness as a provider of compassionate, person-centered care.

  • Your full-color logo on the back cover of Five Wishes
  • Optional message or fully designed advertisement
  • Timely positioning of your brand in moments of decision and care delivery
  • Acknowledge your supporters or program funders
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Five Wishes at Work

Start with your people. Employers of all sizes and types provide Five Wishes to employees and families. It's all the more relevant for healthcare organizations to provide this resource to employees.

  • Encourage employees to use Five Wishes for themselves first
  • Then share Five Wishes with their families
  • Then feel more comfortable talking to patients and caregivers
  • It’s a helpful benefit to employees and families + experiential learning
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Five Wishes Training: Online & On-Demand

Five Wishes Training: Online & On-Demand

Five Wishes Online Training courses focus on developing communication skills and framing conversations around key domains that address what matters most to people - empowering clinicians to have advance care planning discussions that add quality and value. Courses are affordable, self-paced, and carry continuing education credit.

For professionals and volunteers in any field who want to deliver community educational presentations about advance care planning using Five Wishes. These modules provide all the information and tips you'll need to plan and host a Five Wishes group presentation. 1.5 hours of continuing education (nursing, social work, mental health counseling).

Get Presenter Training

For clinicians who facilitate advance care planning conversations with individuals. Unlike the Presenter Training, which focuses on providing public presentations and education to groups of people, the Facilitator Training focuses on assisting individuals as they complete their advance directive. It is most useful for healthcare professionals who engage directly with patients, families, and caregivers.

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Other Training Solutions

Other Training Solutions

Consider adding Five Wishes training to your system's learning management system (LMS) or customized training

Popular LMS providers, including Relias, include Five Wishes specific training modules. Ask for those modules to be included in your team's LMS library.

Relias Five Wishes Training

Collaborate with the Five Wishes team to host a customized webinar or in-person training, particularly helpful when Five Wishes is introduced to the system.

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Testimonials

  • “Five Wishes allows us to remind family members that knowing we fulfilled the wishes of our loved one, despite what we wanted, was the greatest gift -- and an anchor in our grief.”

    Alma Y. Dixon, EdD, MPH, MSN, RN

    Healthcare Consultant, Caregiver Advocate, Palm Coast, FL

  • “We provide Five Wishes at our in-service events and most complete it on the same day. Thanks for everything you've done for advance directives in America. Five Wishes is a wonderful resource for our community.”

    Pamela Wright, LCSW

    VITAS Innovative Hospice Care

  • “We use Five Wishes because it is informative and clarifying, providing a structure for thinking about death and dying.”

    Rev. Gary Strichartz, Chaplain

    UMass Memorial Milford Regional Medical Center, Milford, MA

  • "As a palliative care child life specialist, I have used Five Wishes extensively in my work. I deeply appreciate how these materials can help make end-of-life discussions accessible to children and young people and ensure that their voices are heard."

    Hania Thomas-Adams, MA, CCLS

    San Francisco, CA