Counseling Patients and Families on Forgoing Life Prolonging Therapy
Price range: $39.95 through $160.00
Hospice and palliative care professionals specialize in counseling patients and families on continuing or forgoing life prolonging medical interventions, especially as those therapies become increasingly burdensome and impair quality of life, making hospice a reasonable alternative. While these conversations are often considered “difficult,” they are critical to providing patients and families education and support that empower them to choose care that aligns with their wishes from an informed perspective.
Kate Sims, RN, MBA, and Joseph Sacco, MD, BFM, ACQ-HPM from The Connecticut Hospice, the first hospice program in the United States, highlight effective and empathetic communication strategies using real-word examples.
Registration Options
- Individual: Includes on-demand access for one learner.
- Organization/Company: Designed for staff training. Includes on-demand access for up to 25 employees at one location.
- Community License: Ideal for multi-site organizations and organizations serving their broader community. Includes on-demand access for employees and community members across up to three locations.
Please Note: Individual memberships and registrations are not eligible for organization or community use.
Continuing education included with registration.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Examine why “The Difficult Conversation” matters and explain the role that various members of the IDT can play in these conversations.
- Describe how family dynamics, caregiver readiness, and cultural beliefs impact issues around disclosure and decision making.
- Define barriers to effective communication about care options in end stage disease and learn well-validated communication frameworks for discussion of EOL options.
- Explain the impact of delayed goals-of-care discussions on patients and families, as well as the potential moral distress of clinicians.
