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ForwardPalliative Education & Training Day (PET Day) 9.24.24
Target Audience
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Pharmacist
Physician
Physician Assistant
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
LGBTQ+ Patient Advocacy
1. Understand and correctly use terms related to gender identify, expression, and sexual orientation.
2. Identify and understand disparities in health care access and discrimination within LGBTQ+ communities.
3. Discuss opportunities surrounding serious illness and end of life care for LGBTQ+ communities. Nausea Management
1. Describe common etiologies of nausea & vomiting in seriously ill patients.
2. Understand anti-emetic groups for nausea & vomiting including pharmacology, indications, adverse reactions, and cautions.
3. Identify non-pharmacological interventions for nausea and vomiting. Ethics
1. Define 4 tenets of biomedical ethics.
2. Describe the concept of medical futility.
3. Use case to explore withdrawal vs. withholding a given intervention. Demoralization
1. Describe relevance of demoralization in palliative care and in end-of-life care.
2. Understand the signs of demoralization in the seriously ill population.
3. Identify appropriate interventions to be utilized in patients experiencing demoralization.
Additional Information
Disclaimer Statement
The information presented at this CME program represents the views and opinions of the individual presenters, and does not constitute the opinion or endorsement of, or promotion by, the UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, UPMC / University of Pittsburgh Medical Center or Affiliates and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Reasonable efforts have been taken intending for educational subject matter to be presented in a balanced, unbiased fashion and in compliance with regulatory requirements. However, each program attendee must always use his/her own personal and professional judgment when considering further application of this information, particularly as it may relate to patient diagnostic or treatment decisions including, without limitation, FDA-approved uses and any off-label uses.
Sinthana Ramsey, DO, presenting “Nausea Management.”
Sherry Gunn, LCSW, & Elizabeth Hale, MD, presenting “Demoralization.”
Ethan Silverman, MD, presenting “Ethics.”
Joy Gero, PsyD, presenting “LGBTQ+ Patient Advocacy.”
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
In support of improving patient care, 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 live activity for a maximum of 3.0 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 3.0 contact hours.
Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 3.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 3.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
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 3.0 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
- 3.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
- 3.00 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.
- 3.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 3.00 APA
- 3.00 ASWB
- 3.00 Attendance