A Walk in the Woods: Updates on Palliative Medicine & End-of-Life Care
SOCIAL WORKERS
Course Description
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2.0 ASWB ACE general credits
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Estimated time to complete activity: 2 hours
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You will receive an email when the course is available and ready to view
Although understanding about palliative care during the last decade has improved among healthcare professionals, there is still confusion about this specialty and how to implement it in practice. New Jersey’s population, like many other states in the US, is aging with a greater incidence of cancer and a high prevalence of chronic conditions. This will increase the demand for high quality palliative care, hospice care and end of life care services.
Join Dr. David Barile on a series of nature walks as he shares a historical perspective on caring for people with serious illness, discusses how to improve shared decision-making, and explores what’s new in serious illness care with state and national thought leaders and palliative care innovators.
Dr. Barile is passionate about health and wellness and knows the benefits of spending time outdoors. This is why much of this program was filmed in the open air. We urge you to consider taking a break from sitting behind your own desk and encourage you to listen to all or part of this program on your own walk in the woods. Or, just enjoy the scenery from wherever you are. Either way, we’re sure you’ll appreciate the departure from the routine CME lecture and be inspired by the program and the uncommon approach used to deliver this noteworthy content.
Who Should Take this Course?
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Social Workers
Learning Objectives
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Consider how palliative care may improve quality of life and life expectancy in the seriously ill
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Identify gaps in medical education that contribute to poor end-of-life (EOL) care, clinician burnout, depression and suicide
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Highlight the importance of prognostication; identify measures to assist in making accurate prognosis
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Identify strategies for improved patient centered medical decision making including addressing cross cultural differences regarding serious illness/death across the healthcare team, potential impacts of disparities on EOL care and the importance of appropriate cross-cultural communication
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Facilitate conversations about diagnosis, prognosis, and how to deliver bad news using the 4 Step model
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Describe the role Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) plays in EOL planning and how to introduce it in practice; identify appropriate patients that would benefit from POLST
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Identify systemic and technological breakthroughs in palliative medicine; discuss at home programs; share information about national coalitions & programs
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Identify those eligible for hospice care and describe the Medicare hospice benefit
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Describe the laws and regulations around Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)
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Review evidence based methods for reducing stress and burnout among the healthcare team
Course Curriculum
Caring for People with Serious Illness: A Historical Perspective (optional)
- A Brief History of Palliative Care and Hospice
- The Promise of Palliative Medicine
- Integrating the Practice of Good Medicine into Health Professional Training
Improving Shared Decision-Making
- Learning to Prognosticate
- Eliciting Goals of Care
- 4 Step Method
- POLST
What’s New in Serious Illness Care
- Palliative Care at Home and Communities
- Accepting Hospice Care
Contemporary Considerations in Serious Illness Care
- When Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) is Requested
- Addressing Disparities and Promoting Equity in Serious Illness Care
- The Pandemic & Caring for Ourselves
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A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer:
Tracy Grafton, LCSW, ACHP-SW
Accreditation and Credit Designation
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by i3 Health and Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey. i3 Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, i3 Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 2.0 ASWB ACE general continuing education credits.
Requirements for Credit (Steps required to receive/print certificate: complete the evaluation and attestation; download certificate.)
Disclosures
i3 Health and GOCCNJ endorse the standards of the ACCME, ANCC, ACPE, and ASWB that require everyone in a position to control the content of a CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that are related to the content of the CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity. CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activities must be balanced, independent of commercial bias, and promote improvements or quality in health care. All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence accepted within the medical profession.
A conflict of interest is created when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship, which therefore may bias their opinions and teaching. This may include receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, stocks, or other financial benefits.
i3 Health and GOCCNJ will identify, review, and mitigate all relevant financial relationships that speakers, authors, or planners disclose prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation. i3 Health does not endorse any products or services.
Disclosure of relevant financial relationships are as follows:
Faculty Educators
David R. Barile, MD; Ramy Sedhom, MD; Zubin Damania, MD; Eric Widera, MD: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Planning Committee
Jessica Israel, MD, Ramy Sedhom, MD: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The i3 Health planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey planners and managers have nothing to disclose.
i3 Health and GOCCNJ have mitigated all relevant financial relationships.
Disclaimer
The information provided at this CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical/clinical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.
Unapproved Use Disclosure
i3 Health requires CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB faculty (speakers) to disclose to attendees when products or procedures being discussed are off-label, unlabeled, experimental, and/or investigational (not FDA approved), as well as any limitations on the information that is presented, such as data that are preliminary or that represent ongoing research, interim analyses, and/or unsupported opinion. Faculty may discuss information about pharmaceutical agents that is outside of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved labeling. This information is intended solely for continuing medical education and is not intended to promote off-label use of these medications. If you have questions, contact the medical affairs department of the manufacturer for the most recent prescribing information.
Instructions on How to Receive Credit
Please register and login to access the course material.
Although there are multiple modules, this is one (1) activity with 1 evaluation for the entire activity. Please watch all videos before completing the evaluation.
Upon successful completion of the activity evaluation, CE certificates will be available for download.
Technical/Credit Queries
Technical queries about this activity should be directed to [email protected]. Questions regarding activity credit should be directed to [email protected].
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This program is made possible through the generosity of the
Baldwin-Sieck Family Fund.
Jointly Provided by
i3Health
i3 Health's mission is to enhance the proficiency of the multidisciplinary health care team by providing evidence-based, fair-balanced CME/NCPD/CPE-approved activities that address identified professional practice gaps and unmet educational needs.
The staff of i3 Health collectively has decades of experience developing CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB-approved activities for physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, nurse, and social worker audiences. We partner with key opinion leaders, academic/research institutions, professional societies, peer-reviewed journals, and social media platforms to develop and deliver the most innovative educational programming in health care.
Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey
Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the only network of organizations in NJ working together to make certain that patients with serious illness get the care they need and no less, and the care they want and no more. Our membership is comprised of nearly 40 statewide organizations along with strategic partners and academic alliances with leading teaching institutions. We believe human interests, values, and dignity must be at the core of medical decision-making. As such, we aspire to create a standard of care for NJ where people explore their wishes for care towards the end of life, express those wishes, and have their wishes honored. Through research, education and advocacy, our mission is to ensure that policy makers, healthcare providers, patients, and family caregivers have the information, resources, training, and tools they need to promote high-quality, person-centered advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life care services.
Copyright
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