Women`s Health, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault & Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care 2019 is a 7-Night Greece & Croatia Cruise Conference Round-trip Venice.
Women`s Health, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault & Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care 2019 covers topics such as:
- Dying and the Patient With Decisionmaking Capacity
- Explain the difference between advance directives and physicians orders regarding end-of-life treatment options
- Differentiate between instructional and proxy advance directives
- Identify the gaps that arise between advance directives and orders in patient charts
- Discuss these differences with patients with decisionmaking capacity so that their wishes are memorialized in case of loss of that capacity
- Assess the utility of POLST as a way to fill in those gaps
- End of Life Care and Refusal of Treatment
- Explain the lines the line draws between appropriate and inappropriate end-of-life treatment choices for patients
- Discuss ethically and legal appropriate end-of-life treatment choices with patients
- Palliative Care and Hospice
- Explain Medicare requirements for the coverage of hospice care
- Explain the difference between palliative care and hospice
- Evaluate suggestions of hospice care made by other members of the care team or by hospice providers themselves
- When the Patient Lacks Decisionmaking Capacity (With or Without An Advance Directive)
- Analyze decisionmaking approaches under the three possibly applicable legal standards: substituted judgment, best interests, and the legally disfavored subjective test
- Explain state laws that permit family members or others acting on behalf of patients lacking capacity to speak on their behalf
- Futility: When Family Members Want It All
- Explain the concept of medical futility
- Explain legal recognition of death by neurological criteria and differentiate between issues involving patients satisfying that criteria and patients who do not, under the law
- Compare state laws specifically describing procedures to be followed when clinicians view a patient s treatment as futile with state laws that are less procedurally specific
- Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative futility
Women`s Health, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault & Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care 2019 brings together:
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners. Attorneys
- Nurses
- Psychologists