Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker's Name and Title: Noelle Marie C. Javier, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Anup Bharani, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Toby Weiss, MSHRM, OD
AVP of Cultural Diversity
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care

Purpose: The goal of the session would be to demonstrate a successful and ongoing inter-institutional partnership between a community-based hospice organization and a large academic medical center to improve the care of LGBTQ+ patients with serious illness and their families. This includes operationalizing and rolling out the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in the electronic medical record as well as creating a series of educational interventions aimed at raising awareness, mitigating unconscious bias, and promoting culturally competent and holistic care to a vulnerable patient population.

Objectives:

1. Recognize the unique palliative care and hospice needs of the LGBTQ+ patient and their families
2. Describe the importance of including sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in the hospice EMR
3. Illustrate culturally competent strategies to provide ongoing, team-based education around collection of SOGI

Target Audience: Primary care providers, nurse practitioners, palliative care specialists, pain specialists, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, allied health professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students

Criteria for Successful Completion:

1. Attendance at entire session
2. Submission of completed evaluation form
3. Successful completion of a posttest; 80% passing grade (mandatory to receive CE credit for social workers)

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: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: September 1, 2022

Expiration Date: July 1, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Noelle Marie C. Javier, MD, Anup Bharani, MD, and Toby Weiss, MSHRM, OD, have 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 other Planning Committee Member has financial disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Lara Dhingra, PhD
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Helena Knotkova, PhD
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
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/