Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1|Identify the imperative for and challenges surrounding compassionate care from the perspective of caregiver and health care consumer.
2|Recount at least two exemplars that demonstrate the foundational nature of compassion in today’s efforts to attain patient-centered health care delivery.
3|Describe at least two factors that enhance caregiver engagement and contribute to safe, quality, compassionate patient care.

Faculty
Karen A. Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Past President of the American Nurses Association
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University

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. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
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. 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.