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ForwardELNEC Pediatric Palliative Care Training
Date & Location:
March 5 & 6, 2021 - This is a 2 day course and both days require attendance to claim credit
Goal:
This course will prepare members of the multidisciplinary team to provide a high quality of care for infants/children and their families that are facing or at high risk of facing life limiting conditions.
Target Audience
This course is designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, child life specialist, spiritual services, music therapist, art therapist
Learning Objectives
- Describe the philosophy and principles of hospice and palliative care that can be integrated across settings to affect quality pediatric care.
- Identify changes in society, healthcare economics, and service delivery that necessitate improved professional preparation for palliative care.
- Discuss unique aspects of suffering for children and families facing a life-threatening illness or event.
- Discuss cases in which perinatal or neonatal palliative care may be beneficial
- Describe unique characteristics of neonatal palliative care and strategies to overcome challenges.
- Summarize three aspects of excellent ongoing communication with the interdisciplinary team, the child, and the family throughout palliative care.
- Explain ethical issues and dilemmas that may arise in palliative care for children.
- Identify barriers to adequate pain relief in palliative care and list components of a thorough pain assessment.
- Discuss cultural and spiritual factors which may affect the ability to communicate effectively with patients and families facing the end of life.
- Describe assessment of symptoms and interventions that can prevent or diminish symptoms.
- Identify physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs and interventions for an imminently dying child and his/her/their family.
- Provided three interventions that may be appropriate to facilitate the grief process.
- Define personal death awareness and cumulative loss associated with professional caregiving.
Program Schedule
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Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional 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 or planning committee have commercial relationships with commercial companies providing goods or services used on patients.
Vanessa Battista, RN, MS, CPNP-PC, CHPPN
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Diane C. Parker MSN, RN, CHPN, CHPPN
Vice President
Traditions Health, Southeast Region
PLANNERS
Meghan Brewer, MS, CCLS
Child Life Specialist
Baystate Children’s Hospital
Mustafa Caylan, MD
Pediatric Palliative Care Physician
Department of Pediatrics
Baystate Medical Center
Emily Lajeunesse, MSW, LICSW
Inpatient Social Worker
Baystate Health
Marianne MacCullagh, M.Div, BCC
Chaplin
Spiritual Services
Baystate Medical Center
Cynthia St. John, BSN, RN
Nurse
Baystate Medical Center
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional 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 or planning committee have commercial relationships with commercial companies providing goods or services used on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Available Credit
- 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 10.75 ANCC Contact Hours
- 10.75 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
- 10.75 BCIPE Instructional Hours