Interprofessional Webinar Series in Palliative Care

This webinar will describe the array of potential opioid side effects and toxicities in terms of their prevalence, mechanisms, and presentations, and discuss clinical strategies for prevention and management of each.

The purpose of this webinar is to enhance knowledge of the management of behavioral symptoms in dementia.

The goal of this webinar is to assist nurses to acquire the knowledge and skills to provide hospice and palliative care nursing for individuals with chronic illness.

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

This webinar will provide nurses with information and strategies to implement evidence-based practices to prevent and/or manage wounds in advanced 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 help nurses to acquire the knowledge and skills to incorporate best practices for the assessment and management of pain in individuals with advanced illness.

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

The goal of this webinar is to increase the knowledge of nurses in how the spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices of our patients and families impact care.

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

This webinar will educate nurses in clinical skills and professional mindfulness necessary to provide a therapeutic presence for a patient and family as death nears.

This webinar will help nurses gain an introductory understanding of the social changes that have occurred since the enactment of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) in 1991, specifically the advance directive.

This webinar will allow social workers to acquire the knowledge and skills to incorporate best practices in assessment, intervention, and referral of patients in pediatric palliative care.

This webinar will provide social workers with an overview of the theory, research, and best practices related to working with family caregivers in palliative care and hospice.

CAM is a broad domain that encompasses health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs. The purpose of this webinar is to describe complementary modalities of care in advanced illness.

The purpose of this webinar is to assist nurses to define and explore the structure and meaning of family vigils by providing current qualitative research on the topic.