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Ethical Palliative Care and End of Life Issues
November 4, 9:00 AM –3:00 PM
National Park Community College, Hot Springs, AR
This free educational conference will receive 4.5 contact hours of CE credits depending on the individual discipline.
Purpose: To provide skills and tools for the healthcare professional to work with terminally ill patients, their families and caregivers in an ethical manner with compassion and understanding while providing quality care.
Objectives:
At the completion of this 4.5-hour conference, the attendees will be able to:
- Discuss the main documents needed at the end of life process.
- Define family centered end of life nursing care.
- Describe how end of life care is implemented by nurses in a variety of settings.
- Reflect on the nurse’s role on the health care team in discussing the options for the patient regarding end of life care options.
- Project specific nursing interventions that are implemented to promote ethical family centered end of life care.
- Address specific concerns of participants in implementing ethical care at end of life.
- Define ethical issues in palliative care using case studies.
- List the major ethical concerns in palliative care.
Conference Schedule:
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
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| Start | Finish | ||
| 8:30 | 8:50 | Registration | |
| 8:50 | 9:00 | Welcome | Theresa Travis, Medical Director, Hospice Home Care |
| 9:00 | 10:15 | Ethical Palliative Care and End of Life Issues | A. Reed Thompson, MD |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 | 11:30 | What does a Hospice Nurse Look Like? | Dena Duckworth, BSNJanice Ivers, MSN, RNCynthia Nelson, APN |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 | 2:00 | Ethical Palliative Care and End of Life Issues | A. Reed Thompson, MD |
| 2:00 | 2:15 | Break | |
| 2:15 | 2:45 | Essential Estate Planning for Everyone | Karen Baim Reagler, MA, JD, LLM |
| 2:45 | 3:00 | Q&A | All participants |
Faculty:
Theresa Travis, MD
Executive Medical Director
Hospice Home Care
Little Rock, AR
A. Reed Thompson, MD
Associate Professor
Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, UAMS
Dena Carr Duckworth, BSN, RN
Arkansas Hospice, Inc
Springdale, AR
Janice Ivers, MSN, RN
National Park Community College
AD Program Director
Hot Springs, AR
Cynthia T. Nelson, APN
Palliative Care Coordinator
Mercy Health Center
Hot Springs, AR
Karen Baim Reagler, MA, JD, LLM
Elder Law and Estate Planning
Hot Springs, AR
Target Audience:
Health professionals- Nurses, Registered Dieticians, Long term Care providers and Social Workers
Presentation(s):
Ethics of Palliative Care and Hospice (2011)