Continuing Medical Education Archive

Momma's Got to Eat!

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Friday, March 25, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday March 25^th, 2011

Objectives:

Discuss the benefits and burdens of artificial nutrition in various patient populations
Discuss the importance of and how to achieve a thorough informed consent process regarding starting or continuing artificial nutrition
Discuss alternatives to artificial nutrition

Getting the Most Out of MOST: A Win-Win for All

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Friday, March 11, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday March 11^th, 2011

Objectives:

Describe failures of PSDA and DNR
Discuss benefits of connecting advance directives to physician orders
Revew and discuss the MOST form
Identify barriers to implementation and ways to overcome barriers

Pediatric Palliative Care : For Practitioners Who Work With Adults - Update

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Friday, February 25, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday February 25^th, 2011

Objectives:

Learn the baiscs of the common conditions that effect children in hospice and palliative care, focusing on the diagnoses of our current patients
Review medications and doses for children
Learn how to communicate with children of different ages

Scales, Scales, Scales: What Should the Rainbow Fish Do with All These Scales?

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Friday, February 11, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday February 11^th, 2011

Objectives:

Be able to describe and use 4 performance assessment scales commonly used to evaluate hospice patients
Discuss some of the inconsistences within the scales
Participated in a group discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of the scales

Prognostication Art & Science (or just another dirty word?)

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Friday, January 28, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday January 28^th, 2011

Objectives:

How do we use pronositication to identify patients.families in need of palliative care?
What prognositc tools do we have available for that purpose?
How do we talk prognosis with patients and families?

Racial Disparities in Pain Management in Patients Referred to Hospice

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Friday, January 14, 2011 - 8:30am

Friday January 14^th, 2011

Objectives

Quick Overview of:

Disparities in Healthcare services
Disparities in Hospice utilization
Explore racial disparities in pain management in various settings
Discuss current HPCC research in disparities in the hospice setting

As Seen on TV: Death, Dying and Hollywood

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 8:30am

Friday December 10^th, 2010

Objectives:

Review how television and movies depict death and dying.
Evaluate what this depiction means to our patients.
Discuss how to ecplain reality.

Driving Miss Daisy: Should Our Hospice Patients Be Driving?

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Friday, November 12, 2010 - 8:30am

Friday November 12^th, 2010

Objectives:

Discuss current literature relating to the effect of various medical illnesses on driving ability
Discuss current literature relating to the effects of medications on drving abilitiy
Discuss the benefits and burdens of a rigid reporting and enforcement system for drivers suspected of medical impairment
Identify some important legal and ethical issues related to restricting a patient's ability to drive

Interventional Pain Therapy for Intractable Malignancy-Related Abdominal Pain

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Friday, October 22, 2010 - 8:30am

Friday October 22^nd, 2010

Objectives:

Basic patophysiology of the chronic/acute abdominal pain and manifestations of Visceral hyperalgesia
Conservative treatement, Sympathetic blocks and radiofrequency/chemical neurolysis
Spinal cord stimulation and Intrathecal infusion as another therapeutic option for severe chronic visceral pain

Knowing, Documenting and Honoring Patients' Wishes in Long Term Care Settings

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Friday, October 22, 2010 - 3:00am

Friday October 22^nd, 2010

Objectives:

Discuss barriers to the following health care wishes in a nursing home setting
Discuss success and failure of advance directives for nursing home patients
Discuss MOST (Medical Order for Scope of Treatment) form, how it works, and why it sometimes fails