Interprofessional Webinar Series in Palliative Care

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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