Team Approaches to High-Quality, Patient-Centered Palliative Care

Includes one complimentary Continuing Education (CE) credit. CE Application Guide
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“There’s nothing more we can do,” is an insufficient but all-too-common answer to the problem of chronic and end-stage disease processes.

This presentation will define palliative care as a medical service that acknowledges the person beyond their disease process. The discussion covers multidisciplinary, patient-centered team approaches to meet the comprehensive needs of seriously ill patients, reduce the burden of symptoms, and improve quality of life.

Participants in this webinar will be able to:

• Define palliative care.
• Identify when palliative care is appropriate.
• Evaluate team approaches relative to the palliative care continuum.
• Analyze systems-level considerations in implementing palliative care.
• Review practical resources for palliative care.

Presenter:

David Hage, PhD, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, C-ASWCM, is a gerontologist, licensed clinical social worker, and an allied health sciences educator at Misericordia University. In addition to research and teaching, he maintains an inpatient and outpatient clinical counseling and consulting practice. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, American College of Healthcare Executives, National Society for Leadership & Success, and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital’s biomedical ethics and palliative care committees.