Hospice & Palliative Care
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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR SERIES:
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN THE SERIOUSLY ILL
Attending Psychiatrist
Heart and Lung Transplant Programs
Montefiore Medical Center
Purpose: This webinar is intended to promote a greater understanding of mental illness within patients suffering from a life-threatening or terminal illness. The presentation will help providers identify and evaluate both depression and anxiety and implement appropriate and effective treatment strategies.
Objectives:
- Define depression and anxiety and their presentation amid serious and debilitating illnesses
- Discuss the clinical evaluation and diagnoses of depression and anxiety
- Explain the various treatment modalities for depression and anxiety
Continuing Education Credits: 1.0
Continuing Education Accreditation
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:
Individual: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)
Group: Free (includes unlimited CME/CE certificates)
Release Date: May 2, 2024
Expiration Date: February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)
Disclosures:
Ammar Y. Ahmad, MD, 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
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.
Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/
The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is pleased to offer free interdisciplinary palliative care webinars, live and on demand, delivered by frontline experts, typically offering 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for Continuing Medical Education (CME), Nursing continuing education (CE), Social Work CE credits, Case Manager CCMC CE credits, and Music Therapy CE credits.
Our free interactive multimedia modules on Community-Based Palliative Care Program Development and Caring for Holocaust Survivors With Sensitivity at End of Life offer up to 9.75 CE credits.
Free pdf downloads now available: 15 palliative care professional factsheets and patient education handouts on 18 topics in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, French, and Russian.