Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Purpose: This webinar will review evidence-based advocacy approaches to support equitable hospice and palliative care access and delivery at local, national, and international levels. Empirical data and case studies will be used to describe the advocacy process and provide suggestions to achieve future advocacy goals. Content will be aimed at interdisciplinary clinicians with a primary aim to reconsider advocacy as a fundamental component of hospice and palliative care practice.

Objectives:  

1. Identify key elements of evidence-based advocacy in the hospice and palliative care context
2. Apply serious illness communication skills to foster relationships with stakeholders and advance advocacy endeavors
3. Discuss ways to use both personal identity and professional obligations to advocate effectively
4. Explain how to combine data and narratives to support an advocacy agenda

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: This on-demand webinar, Evidence-Based Advocacy for the Hospice and Palliative Care Clinician, with a beginning date of April 4th, 2024, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.0 prescribed credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1.0 credit(s)^™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.
Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: April 4, 2024

Expiration Date: April 4, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); July 1, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Lara Dhingra, PhD
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Helena Knotkova, PhD
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Wini Schein, BA

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/