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Completing the Care Continuum
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Hospice and Bereavement
| Carla Braveman, RN, BSN, MEd, CHCE |
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Pain and Symptom Burden
| Sara Davison, MD, MHSc, FRCPC |
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Ira Byock, MD |
Carla Braveman, RN, BSN, MEd, CHCE |
Sara Davison, MD, MHSc, FRCPC |
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| CME / CE RELATED INFORMATION |
For Physicians, this learning activity is accredited for up to 2.8 CME credist hours by the School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Campus (VCU).
For nurses and dialysis technicians, this learning activity is accredited for 2.8 CE credit hours by ANNA. |
Part 1
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Date of Release: May, 2005
CME Credit Eligible Through: May 1, 2006
CE Credit Eligible Through: August 1, 2006
Target Audience: CME: Nephrologists, nephrology fellows, internists
CE: Nurses and dialysis technicians
Method of participation: Listen to the talk, read the PubMed abstracts linked to data slides and talk references, complete the post-test and evaluation.
Note: There are two different certificates, make sure that you click on the button that corresponds to the certificate you are eligible for. |
- Identify challenges presented by the current social context.
- Specify ethical principles applicable to caring for patients at the end of life
- Define palliative care and distinction with hospice care
- Identify typical services provided by hospice and palliative care to patients and families.
- Recognize that communication and advance care planning as essential elements of the continuum of care.
- Describe an organized, on-going approach to symptom management
- Review extra-ordinary symptom management, including palliative sedation and the critical distinction between such treatment and euthanasia
- Recognize the nature of suffering associated with progressive illness and dying
- Recognize the nature of opportunity during the phase of life termed “dying.”
- Describe a life-cycle, developmental approach to supportive counseling and anticipatory-guidance for ESRD patients and their families that can assist with issues of life completion and closure
- Identify leadership that clinicians and health care givers can provide society by caring in a manner that is not only competent and comprehensive, but also honors people in their dying
- Review hospice and the Medicare Benefit
- Describe the appropriate use of the Medicare Hospice Benefit with ESRD Patients
- Describe the benefits to the family with Hospice bereavement services after the death
- Discuss the magnitude and scope of chronic pain and (0) symptoms in the ESRD population.
- Discuss the impact of chronic pain in ESRD patients.
- Discuss the potential barrier to adequate pain and symptom RX.
- Outline potential strategies to enhance pain and symptom management
| SPEAKER DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: |
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| CME/CE ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS: |
The CME and CE accreditation statements for this program are given in detail on the Symposium Home Page.
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