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The Samaritan Mary Ann Boccolini Institute for Education, Research and Innovation is committed to being at the forefront of training the next generation of healthcare practitioners in serious illness and end-of-life care.
We offer clinical rotations and internships in our specially designed program that includes an interdisciplinary team of dedicated experts. Professionals and student nurses will obtain person-centered care experience from experts who are essential to Samaritan’s longstanding reputation in the community.
Thousands of patients and their families have experienced our comfort, support, and dignity through a wide range of programs and services. Samaritan’s philosophy of care is to approach each person and family in our care with reverence for the sacredness of life, while developing and sustaining a relationship that is serving, trusting, authentic and caring. Our vision for you during your clinical rotation is to have a first-hand experience with this philosophy.
Interested in a clinical rotation program at Samaritan?
Hospice and Palliative Medicine focuses on caring for patients with advanced, serious, or life-threatening illnesses. These patients may have a high symptom burden, face complex treatment decisions or be near the end of their life.
Your clinical rotation may include a clinical rotation experience with Samaritan Primary Care at Home; the hospice admission department; a hospice team visiting patients in their homes; or in one of our state-of-the-art inpatient centers.
Routine Home Hospice: You will shadow an interdisciplinary team who cares for patients receiving the routine level of hospice care in their home, assisted living facility, or a nursing home. You will participate in meetings with the interdisciplinary team and discuss each patient’s plan of care including alleviating pain and symptoms, attending to emotional and spiritual needs, and honoring patient goals and wishes. You will then follow a clinician as they execute this plan of care during home or facility visits.
General Inpatient Level of Care: You will shadow complex hospice patients at the general inpatient (GIP) level of care that focuses on pain control or symptom relief that cannot be managed in other settings. GIP level of care may be provided in one of three settings: a Medicare-certified hospice inpatient center, a hospital, or a skilled nursing facility.
Hospice Admissions: You will shadow the process of coordinated hospice admissions with a Samaritan nurse liaison. Experiences will include a review of patient referrals, discussions about care options with patients and family members, and initial care planning. In addition, the student will gain an understanding of the role of facilitator of medical information across care settings and relationship building strategies to enhance patient care.
Primary Care in the Home: You will shadow a primary care advanced practice provider (APP) delivering whole patient care to persons with chronic illness in homes and facilities. The student will gain valuable experience in a model of care delivery that lessens health disparities and increases access to care for vulnerable populations.
Hospice and Palliative Medicine focuses on caring for patients with advanced, serious, or life-threatening illnesses. These patients may have a high symptom burden, face complex treatment decisions or be near the end of their life.
Your clinical rotation may include a clinical rotation experience with Samaritan Primary Care at Home; the hospice admission department; a hospice team visiting patients in their homes; or in one of our state-of-the-art inpatient centers.
Routine Home Hospice: Practice being an attending physician supervising an interdisciplinary team who cares for patients receiving the routine level of hospice care in their home, assisted living facility, or nursing homes. You will manage medications, treatment options, eligibility during Interdisciplinary team meetings comprised of an average census of 30 patients. The role of the attending physician within the IDT is to ensure each patient’s plan of care includes alleviation of pain and symptoms, attends to emotional and spiritual needs, and honors the patients’ goals and wishes.
General Inpatient Level of Care: Working side by side with the inpatient attending provider you will evaluate and develop a plan for new admissions, provide daily management to patients at the end of life and provide compassionate bedside care. The resident will participate in regular interdisciplinary team meetings.
Palliative Consultation: Working side by side with the palliative provider you will complete initial consultations, ongoing follow up, and management of patients in the acute care setting. Common indications for consultation include goals of care discussions, pain and symptom management and psychosocial support to patients with serious illness.
Outpatient Palliative Medicine: Working side by side with the outpatient palliative provider you will provide ongoing symptom management and engage in goals of care conversations for patients with chronic and serious medical conditions. Particular emphasis will be placed on malignant-related pain and symptom management.
Ready to start your clinical rotation at Samaritan?