Interprofessional Webinar Series in Palliative Care

The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is pleased to offer our 2019 live and on-demand webinar series. Our palliative care webinars, delivered by frontline experts, typically offer 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 1.0 Nursing and Social Work continuing education (CE) credits. Selected webinars offer CE credits for pharmacists.

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All Physician Nurse Social Worker Pharmacist

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All On-Demand:  Recorded webinars available for CME/CE credit Live Regular Webinars:  12:30 to 1:30 PM ET Live Professor's Rounds:  Check listing for dates/times

Ethical and Legal Issues in Palliative Care (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on consent, futility, and tube feedings

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Ethical and Legal Issues in Palliative Care (Package 2)

on-demand package

3 webinars on decision-making, withholding and withdrawing life sustaining therapies, and sedation

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Opioids and Other Analgesics (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on side effects, optimizing analgesic outcomes, and substance abuse

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Opioids and Other Analgesics (Package 2)

on-demand package

3 webinars on adjuvant analgesics, methadone, and medical cannabis

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Palliative Care for Diseases Other than Cancer (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on CHF, cardiac devices, and COPD

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Palliative Care for Diseases Other than Cancer (Package 2)

on-demand package

4 webinars on dementia, post-stroke, ALS, and Parkinson's

$100 $85
Individual

Upon request
Group

Prognostication

on-demand package

2 webinars on prognostication for patients with cancer and other chronic advanced illnesses

$50 $45
Individual

Upon request
Group

Psychiatric and Psychosocial Aspects of Care (Package 1)

on-demand package

2 webinars on supporting family caregivers

$50 $45
Individual

Upon request
Group

Psychiatric and Psychosocial Aspects of Care (Package 2)

on-demand package

2 webinars on anxiety and depression

$50 $45
Individual

Upon request
Group

Symptoms Other than Pain

on-demand package

4 webinars on nausea and constipation, anorexia, dyspnea, and delirium

$100 $85
Individual

Upon request
Group

A 28-year-old woman with frequent ED visits for sickle cell pain

on-demand webinar

This webinar will enhance knowledge in the palliation of sickle cell anemia patients with frequent pain episodes.

$15
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Tartania Brown, MD

Anticipatory Mourning at End-of-Life

on-demand webinar

This webinar will help nurses acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and incorporate best practices and interventions for anticipatory grief and mourning experienced by patients and families at end-of-life.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Colleen Fleming-Damon, PhDc, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FT

Assessment and Management of Fatigue in the Seriously Ill

on-demand webinar

The purpose of this webinar is to clarify and improve our knowledge on a common but not well understood topic in palliative care: the assessment and management of fatigue in medical illness.

$25
Individual

Upon Request
Group

Speaker: Pauline Lesage, MD, LLM

Communication with Patients and Families at End-of-Life

on-demand webinar

This webinar for nurses will review communication skills needed for the clinical practice of palliative care and end-of-life nursing care.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Betty Hilleman, MBA, MSN, RN, CHPN

Demystifying Deprescribing: Less is More

on-demand webinar

The goal of this webinar is to provide an overview of “deprescribing.” Potential benefits and harms will be discussed, followed by the barriers, challenges to and enablers of deprescribing. The webinar will also provide practical recommendations to recognize opportunities and strategies for deprescribing in clinical practice.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Ebtesam Ahmed, PharmD, MS

Embracing Cultural Humility in End-of-Life Care

on-demand webinar

This webinar will help social workers to acquire the knowledge to identify and address cultural diversity in hospice and palliative care and incorporate best practices in assessment and intervention.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Christine Kucinskis, LCSW, CSW-G, ACHP-SW

Ensuring Palliative Care for All: Optimizing Access for LGBTQ People

on-demand webinar

This webinar will summarize why palliative care might be more necessary but less accessible for LGBTQ people. We will review the evidence from a number of studies, care and bereavement experiences, and ongoing work.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Richard Harding, PhD

Hospice 101: Levels of Care Across Settings

on-demand webinar

This webinar will help social workers acquire the knowledge and skills to define different levels of care in palliative care and hospice and identify the role of the social worker.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Abby Nathanson, LCSW, ACS

Nutritional Issues in Palliative Care

on-demand webinar

This webinar will discuss nutritional issues faced by palliative patients, the importance of screening, identifying symptoms, and the nutritional interventions that can be offered from food modification and nutritional supplements, to more intense methods such as enteral or parenteral nutrition.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Yasmine Lashine, MD, PhD

Role of the Social Worker in Advance Care Planning

on-demand webinar

This webinar will help social workers to acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and address difficult decisions and manage conversations in end-of-life care.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Adam Schoenfarber, LCSW

Teamwork and the Interdisciplinary Team

on-demand webinar

This webinar will allow social workers to acquire the knowledge to identify the pros and cons of interdisciplinary teamwork, identify the role of the social worker, and incorporate best practices in teamwork and conflict resolution.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Christine Kucinskis, LCSW, CSW-G, ACHP-SW

Thrombosis and Bleeding Complications in the Seriously Ill

on-demand webinar

This webinar will discuss the clinical challenges associated with the treatment of thrombosis in patients with advanced illness and review the risk of bleeding in the patient with chronic serious illness requiring anticoagulant therapy.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Mona S. Patel, DO

Wound Care in Advanced Illness

on-demand webinar

This webinar will provide nurses with information and strategies to implement evidence-based practices to prevent and/or manage wounds in advanced illness.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Diane Maydick, EdD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN

A 69-year-old man with a history of alcoholism, persistent pain after limb-sparing resection of an osteosarcoma

live:  3/07/19 12:30 PM ET, in 12 days

Nurses and social workers, learn more about the management of patients with chronic pain and a comorbid substance use disorder.

$15
Individual

$95
Group

Speaker: Russell K. Portenoy, MD

An 86-year-old woman with moderate dementia, sundowning and a concerned family caregiver

live:  3/28/19 12:30 PM ET, in 33 days

Nurses and social workers, sundowning and sleep disorders in dementia are a frequent source of both patient and caregiver distress. Learn to provide effective care as dementia progresses through the moderate and advanced stages.

$15
Individual

$95
Group

Speaker: Mara Lugassy, MD