Palliative Care - Refocusing Medical Goals on Quality of Life & Guthrie Hospice - Myths and Realities

Medical Grand Rounds

Presenter(s):

  

Parveen, MD, Third Year, Internal Medicine Resident, Robert Packer Hospital
Anja Miller, RN, CHPN, Hospice Clinical Director, Guthrie Hospice

When:

  

Friday, March 22, 2013

Time:

  

12:00 p.m.

Where:

  

Auditorium, Patterson Education Building, Sayre, PA

Videoconferenced to: Big Flats, Corning Centerway, Corning Hospital, Ithaca, & Troy Community Hospital, Pine City and Wellsboro

(Lunch will be provided)

Description:

  

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Define palliative care and hospice.
  • Describe when palliative care needs are appropriate for patients with terminal illness and that comprehensive cancer care includes palliative care from the beginning of diagnosis.
  • Identify the goals of palliative care.
  • Review the assessment of palliative care needs.
  • Determine criteria to quality for Hospice services.
  • Summarize what services hospice can provide.
  • Recognize the dying process.

This Program is intended for:

 

General Internists, Family Practitioners, Medical Specialists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Fellows, Residents, Medical and Nursing Students, and other Healthcare Professionals.

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Accreditation Statement:

  

"Guthrie Health is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians."

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Designation Statement:

 

"Guthrie Health designates this live activity for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity."

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Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement:

  

"Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Guthrie Health are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

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