Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Recognize the unique issues facing patients wit Sickle Cell Disease, especially pertaining to pain management for acute crisis.
2. Appreciate some of the barriers to compassionate care when it comes to managing and caring for patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
3. Recognize the challenges experience by patients with Sickle Cell Disease as they transition from pediatric to adult providers.
Faculty
Stephen J. Ryzewicz, MD, FACP, DFASAM
BMC, Internist AHMP
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Inter-professional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.
None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
- 1.00 BCIPE Instructional Hours
- 1.00 BCIPE Risk Management
- 1.00 NASW Smith CE CreditsThis program was approved for 1.00 Continuing Education Credits by Smith College School for Social Work and assigned authorization number in accordance with Continuing Education Regulation 258 CMR, Category I, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts