CME Listings
Culture & End of Life Care: Patients’ Beliefs and Values
Virtual Lecture Hall
1.5
AMA PRA Category 1
Online
$25/hour
November 1, 2015 00:00
10/31/2017
Objecives of the Course:
- Gather information on the patient's Explanatory Model, or understanding, of her illness experience by asking questions.
- Organize your way of learning cultural differences using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain, Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate.
- respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for care.
- Let patients anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have considered.
- Encourage communication between others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life care.
- Understand patients' values and preferences in advance care planning.
- Identify options for responding to the wants of a patient's family that raise ethical questions.
- Analyze how to discuss the truth in order to gather your patients' preferences.
- Negotiate solutions that respect patients' desires as well as your ethical duty.
- Understand all evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices.
- Advise patients on the basis of things prooven.
- Discuss treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM.
- Establish trust and promote open communication with patients.