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CANCEL Addressing Palliative and End-of-Life Inequities in End-Stage Kidney Disease: What's Our Responsibility?
1. Examine strategies for becoming political advocates as PEOL professionals to advocate for programs that will benefit minoritized populations.2. Discuss various legal and ethical implications of employment within right-to-work states and becoming an advocate that contradicts the political conviction of the state. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Brandon Varilek, Mary Isaacson Source Type: research

Coordinating Complex Discharge to Cuba at End of Life
1. Collaborate within an interdisciplinary team to help facilitate complex discharge process for patients at end of life, to provide goal-concordant care, and to establish safe lines of communication.2. Understand importance of verbal and written communication with interpreter services to address language barriers, elicit patient values and goals, and coordinate safe discharge plan. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Amna Rana, Reggie T. Saldivar Source Type: research

Coordinating De-Centralized Person-Centered Care
1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of varied health systems and compare different models of health care coordination.2. Describe self-reported patient and family challenges of health care transitions. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sarah Karimi, Amtul M. Malik, Robin Joseph, Laura Hofmann, Elizabeth L. Cobbs, Sonika Pandey, Mona S. Wilson Source Type: research

Cultivating Belonging for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Within Palliative Care
1. Through the use of blended case studies, learners will identify examples of how non-inclusive approaches within current palliative care practices impact a sense of belonging for people with IDD.2. Building upon inclusion practices, participants will use strengths-based approaches to describe methods for cultivating belonging within palliative care for people with IDD. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Caitlyn M. Moore, Arlen G. Gaines Source Type: research

Deciding Without Data: A Case for Inclusion of Adults with Childhood Onset Disease in the Palliative Care Literature
1. Participants will be able to recognize the disparities that exist in the availability of outcomes data on feeding tube placement for diverse patient populations, including adults with childhood onset neurologic impairment.2. Using a case-based approach, participants will be able to identify the impact of a lack of outcomes data on the ability to counsel patients in their decisions around feeding tube placement. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Anne M. Lips, Julie L. Mitchell Source Type: research

Dignity in Diversity: Navigating End-of-Life Care for a Transgender Woman in an Inpatient Hospice Unit
1. Understand the unique healthcare needs and challenges faced by transgender individuals in end-of-life care settings, including the importance of addressing gender identity and pronoun preferences to provide culturally competent and compassionate care.2. Explore strategies and best practices for providing culturally competent and compassionate end-of-life care to transgender patients within an inpatient hospice setting, with an emphasis on communication, respect for gender identity, and fostering a supportive and affirming environment for both patients and their families. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tyler Murphy Source Type: research

Ending One's Life at the End of Life: Ethical Considerations of Suicidality
1. Discuss key ethical considerations around suicidality in patients with terminal illness and understand the role of routine psychosocial assessments in patients receiving hospice care.2. Differentiate between the desire to end one's life and incomplete management of unbearable symptoms at the end of life. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jacob Ramos, Annie L. Gula, Jane M. Simpson, Jensy Stafford Source Type: research

Equity in Palliative Care: Interviews with Leaders of a Sickle Cell Community-Facing Organization
1. Utilizing a narrative-based approach, participants will learn the motivations for creating a culturally-competent, far-reaching community-based organization for an underserved chronic disease (SCD) and apply this knowledge toward better integration of PC.2. Utilizing DEIJB principles, participants will analyze community leader responses to a series of interview questions regarding attitudes/perceptions toward PC and lay the groundwork for an innovative social media-directed collaboration to introduce PC to to the SCD community at-large. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Mgbechi U. Erondu, Stephen Boateng Source Type: research

Legal Medical Decision Making in Nonterminal Conditions: The Intersection of Ethics, Law and Patient Autonomy
1. Apply legal understanding of the role of medical decision makers at the end of life.2. Navigate ethical principle to provide high quality palliative care to patients at the end of life. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Michael Wong, Helen Hernandez Lage, John Liantonio Source Type: research

Lost in Translation: Limited English proficiency and navigating health care
1. Establishing and aligning with a patient's goals of care at times requires assuming an active role in pursuit of definitive diagnosis.2. With limited English proficiency patients, trained medical interpreters are essential in encounters that convey complex information to ensure optimal shared decision making. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: David A. Adkins, Britni Lookabaugh Source Type: research

Palliative Care for the Individual: Recognizing and Harnessing Resources to Surmount Barriers
1. Identify potential risk factors that may result in patients experiencing unmet supportive care needs.2. Address barriers to care and patient strengths with the goal of creating an individualized approach to patient care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Carol Abousaab, Jennifer DiBiase, Caroline Taverna, Caitlyn Kuwata Source Type: research

Palliative Care in Cancer Alley: A Discussion on Environmental Racism
1. Understand environmental racism as a contributor to existential suffering at the end of life.2. Use principles of trauma-informed care to engage in conversation with patients about their experiences with environmental racism. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Pallavi Ana Mishra, Sonia Malhotra Source Type: research

Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence
1. Using a case-based approach, participants will be able to discuss the vulnerability of patient and provider amid the ethical duty to provide care and describe the challenges in providing compassionate and ethical care in the setting of a violent threat.2. Using a case-based approach, participants will recognize the imperative of finding creative solutions to balance duty to a patient and safety of the provider. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Michael Moskovitz, Laureen A. Diot Source Type: research

Psychological Distress Among Caregivers for Patients Experiencing End of Life While Incarcerated
1. Evaluate psychosocial factors that may impact symptom management and the end of life experience for hospice patients who are incarcerated.2. Identify resources for further training, education, and understanding of local/national guidelines to provide equitable care for patients who are incarcerated. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Heidi Hallam Source Type: research

Somebody's Watching Me: Video Monitoring of Hospitalized Palliative Care Patients
1. Describe the potential benefits and harms of remote video monitoring of hospitalized palliative care patients.2. Describe strategies that may help guide future implementation of remote video monitoring in the palliative care setting to maximize safety benefits while minimizing harm. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Angela Hu, Gordon Wood, Joshua Hauser Source Type: research