Advance Care Planning in the Rural Faith Community: An Evidence-based Project Promoting Knowledge and Engagement
1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will articulate the process of implementing an evidence-based advance care planning educational intervention in the faith-based community in the underserved rural population.2. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will describe the impact of a culturally sensitive faith-based community educational intervention on advance care planning knowledge and engagement in the underserved rural population. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ruth L. Myers, Kristin N. Levoy, Susan Storey Source Type: research
Addressing the Challenges of the Goals of Care Discussion with the Conscious, Mechanically Ventilated Patient
1. Using a case-based approach, the learners will self report the ability to better conduct a decisional capacity assessment of a conscious, mechanically ventilated patient , despite the inherent challenges of such factors such as time, communication and an uncertain prognosis.2. Using a case-based approach, learners will be able to self-report the ability to to better conduct a shared-decision making discussion with a conscious, mechanically ventilated patient in making goals of care decisions. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Daniel Swagerty, Robin Rinehart Source Type: research
Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Crisis Settings: A Qualitative Study
1. Upon successful completion, participants will be able to outline key skills and strategies for communication with patients and their families during crisis settings.2. Upon successful completion, participants will appreciate how the Serious Illness Conversation Guide may be adapted for crisis communication, for potential use in their clinical practice. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aliza Moledina, Chloe Thabet, Peter Munene, Sarina R. Isenberg, Sydney Ruller, Justin J. Sanders, Daniel Kobewka Source Type: research
A Weekly Multiple-Choice Quiz for Continuing Education in a Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team
1. Assess the utility of a weekly multiple-choice question in palliative care team education and development.2. Compare interdisciplinary team performance on multiple-choice questions based on learning objective topic. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Wil L. Santivasi, Jennifer H. Gentry, Christopher A. Jones, David J. Casarett Source Type: research
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center
1. Participants will reflect on the process by which patients are brought to inpatient consult services ’ attention and will imagine alternative systems that would help identify PC appropriate patients more promptly and proactively.2. Learners will examine the ways in which bias and inequity may affect which patients are referred to subspecialty PC in our current system and compare how interdiscipli nary team members may perceive patients’ PC needs differently. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joanna Sharpless, Yuika Goto, Laura A. Schoenherr, David L. O'Riordan, Steven Pantilat Source Type: research
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing an Acute Sickle Cell Exacerbation
1. Recognize patient-related factors in patients with sickle cell disease that would benefit from a multidisciplinary palliative care approach.2. Describe palliative care interventions that may positively impact total pain in a hospitalized patient with sickle cell disease. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joshua Borris, Paul Noufi Source Type: research
A Community-Based Nephrology and Palliative Care Partnership to Improve Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Care
1. Describe how to develop an integrated palliative care approach to advanced CKD care through a community-based partnership.2. Describe the implementation of a community-based collaboration for advanced CKD as a model to apply with other advanced chronic diseases. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Christine Khandelwal, Dwan Kelsey Source Type: research
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients
1. Describe the signs and symptoms of terminal lucidity.2. Integrate knowledge of terminal lucidity to guide prognostic expectations and advance care planning counseling. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kelly Chin, Jessica Chin, Jennifer Tom, Antonio Corona Source Type: research
10 Tips to Know About Creating, Operating, and Maintaining a Palliative Care Unit
1. Participants will be able to familiarize themselves with how a strategy to implement a successful palliative care unit.2. Participants will be able to identify anticipated challenges, obstacles, and barriers when operating a PCU, and how to overcome them. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lawrence Asprec, Elizabeth Capano, Sawudat DeCoteau Source Type: research
Visceral Hyperalgesia in a Pediatric Palliative Care Patient without Severe Neurologic Impairment
1. Describe common causes of feeding intolerance in pediatric patients and understand visceral hyperalgesia as a cause of refractory abdominal symptoms in multiple patient populations.2. Develop an approach to the treatment of visceral hyperalgesia. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Madeline Weber, Dustin Dillon Source Type: research
Unforeseen Changes After Discontinuation of Artificial Nutrition in a Patient with Occipital Encephalocele
1. Participants will be able to predict and explain several complications that may arise during the care of a patient with an encephalocele who is nearing the end of life.2. Participants will be able to critically evaluate the evolution of symptoms experienced by a child nearing the end of life, recognize any deviation from the expected norm, and translate these discrepancies into a management plan that is tailored to the individual patient and their disease process. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gabrielle S. Latremouille, Luke H. Mosley, Brittney Whitford, Krista Nee Source Type: research
Tracheostomy Placement in Severe Neurologic Impairment: Ethical Considerations and Provider Perspectives
1. Describe the ethical issues commonly encountered when tracheostomy placement is considered for children with severe neurologic impairment, and empathize with the diversity of perspectives on how these ethical questions should be answered.2. Appreciate the need for systematic processes for determining tracheostomy eligibility in children with severe neurologic impairment and related comorbidities. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Stockton S. Beveridge, Katherine Maddox, Yarah Ghotmi Source Type: research
The Evolving Landscape of Care for Children with Trisomy Diagnoses
1. Identify how and why families caring for children with trisomy diagnoses are at risk for bias and differing standards of care across the nation2. Describe resources, utilize evidence based clinical information, and effectively advocate for families caring for patients with trisomy diagnoses that is in alignment with their goals of care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Annie McDermott, Macallagh McEvoy Source Type: research
The Alluring, Enduring, and Troubling Concept of a “Good Death” in Pediatric Palliative Care
1. Using a critical historical approach, participants will evaluate why, how, and for/with who the “good death” concept emerged and how it has persisted over time.2. The interprofessional authorship team will illustrate and deconstruct the “good death” concept into actionable components that can be used to improve clinical care and research inquiry. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Elizabeth G. Broden, Sarah McCarthy, Jennifer M. Snaman Source Type: research
Supporting Parents in the Prenatal Period in Their Choice to Donate Organs Following the Death of Their Newborn.
1. Understand the potential diagnoses in the newborn period that could potentially contribute to the pool of organs or tissue available for transplant.2. Understand the potential benefit to families who pursue the donation of organs and/or tissue from their newborn. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Terri Weinman, Katie Lawrence Source Type: research
