Culture & End of Life Care: Collaborating with Interdisciplinary Partners

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Overview / Abstract:

This course helps you identify possible pitfalls in handling interdisciplinary conflict, assess strategies for addressing interdisciplinary conflicts effectively, and identify strategies for successful communication when working with an interpreter.

Outcome Objectives:

As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:

- Analyze advantages for using a skilled interpreter with limited English proficiency (LEP) patients or patients who don't speak English at all.
- Learn how and why to conduct a pre-session with an interpreter.
- Identify strategies for successful communication when working with an interpreter.
- Elicit the patient's perspective when a family member tries to speak for her.
- Encourage the patient to learn what Western medicine offers, so she can make an informed decision.
- Negotiate a treatment plan, offering your recommendations while respecting the patient's perspective.
- Collaborate with a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) provider to meet the patient's treatment goals.
- Build a lasting relationship with the patient.
- Observe that members of the same family and culture may hold different spiritual values.
- Identify several options for resolving conflicting values.
- Analyze the results when spiritual needs are addressed in planning end-of-life care.
- Analyze how different approaches to ethical decision making might lead to conflict between a physician and a nurse.
- Identify possible pitfalls in handling interdisciplinary conflict.
- Assess strategies for addressing interdisciplinary conflicts effectively.

Expiration

Oct 31, 2022

Discipline(s)

Nurse Practitioner , Nursing CNE, Physician CME, Physician Assistant CME

Format

Online

Cost

$37.50

Credits / Hours

1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM

Accreditation

ACCME

Presenters / Authors / Faculty

Eileen Van Schaik, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Talaria, Inc.
Clinical Assistant Faculty
Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing

Cynthia E. Roat, MPH

Additional Contributors:

Amy Baernstein, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine / General Internal Medicine
University of Washington

Laurie Fronek
Writer

Diane Timberlake, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Harborview Medical Center

Activity Specialities / Related Topics

Cultural Diversity, Ethics, Geriatrics / LTC, Internal Medicine

Keywords / Search Terms

Virtual Lecture Hall Cultural Competence, End of Life-Palliative Care, Patient Communications, Patient Safety, Risk Management, State Mandated CME

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