Death & Dying Series for Healthcare Professionals: Enhancing Conversation Skills 10.23.23

October 23, 2023

Code: PUBDEG

Sessions:                    

October 23, 2023 - https://cce.upmc.com/content/death-dying-series-healthcare-professionals-enhancing-conversation-skills-102323

October 30, 2023

November 6, 2023

November 13, 2023

Learning Objectives

•  Understand the importance of conversations about what matters to patients.
•  Describe the role of palliative care across the serious illness trajectory.
•  Explore the legal and ethical aspects of end-of-life conversations.
•  Discuss how cultural factors can influence conversations about death and dying.
 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/22/2023
Course expires: 
12/29/2023
Event starts: 
10/23/2023 - 3:30pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/23/2023 - 5:30pm EDT

 

 

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Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Ariel Clatty, PhD, Medical Ethics Manager, UPMC Shadyside Hospital

Taylor McMahon, RN, Director of Nursing The Willows - Presbyterian SeniorCare

Dillion Stein, DO, Director, Division of Palliative Care Butler Health System

Jonathan Weinkle, MD, FAAP, Internist and Pediatrician Squirrel Hill Health Center

Nancy Zionts, MBA, COO & Chief Program Officer, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

 

Disclosure Statement: No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

 

 

 

 

Accreditation and credit designation


Joint Providership

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School designates this blended activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.50 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.

Other Healthcare Professionals

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
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