Five Wishes Advance Care Planning for Serious Illness
$55.00
This Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning course provides an overview of key concepts and skills for facilitating effective and sensitive advance care planning and goals of care conversations with people at various stages of serious illness. It outlines considerations to ensure that advance care planning and goals of care conversations empower and equip people to make medically-informed treatment and end-of-life treatment choices that are consistent with their goals and values, and are likely to be honored. This course is appropriate for clinicians who have completed the Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Foundations course and the Five Wishes® Advance Care Planning Facilitator Communication Skills course, or for those who have a firm understanding of the purpose, process, and components of effective advance care planning, and who possess a basic level of the communication skills involved.
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Learning Objectives
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Define serious illness and understand the specific relevance of advance care planning conversations with this population
- Understand the overlapping purpose and goals of serious illness conversations, goals of care conversations, and advance care planning conversations
- Define key principles of conversations with patients who have a serious illness
- Identify approaches to sensitively provide appropriate disease-specific information to help people make informed end-of-life treatment decisions
- Understand important steps in facilitating effective conversations with patients who have a serious illness
- Outline approaches to facilitating effective family meetings and handling disagreements about decision-making
