Activity Number and Title
22HT54278 - Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives
Release Date
August 29, 2022
Expiration Date
5:00 PM Eastern, August 29, 2024
The estimated time to complete this activity is 60 minutes.
Purpose Statement
The activity aims to enable the learner to understand the process of advance care planning, the associated healthcare decision making document aids, and additional resources to assure patient's wishes are elicited and documented in a meaningful manner.
Activity Description
This learning activity provides education on the development of a robust Advance Care Planning (ACP) program and covers the goals, barriers, and enabling strategies to implement an ACP program with patients. This module also offers many ACP resource documents, patient decision aids, and communication tools and techniques for how to facilitate these ACP conversations with patients to honor their wishes when it comes to their goals of care during this period of life.
The content level of this activity is intermediate.
Target Audience
This accredited continuing education activity is designed for physicians, advance practice clinicians, social workers, and nurses caring for patients with bleeding disorders. This activity will additionally target care managers, spiritual care specialists, and other multidisciplinary providers involved in caring for patients with bleeding disorders.
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participants should be better able to:
- Discuss complexities and demands of today's older adults to both live and die well?
- Describe various advance care planning program implementation strategies
- Employ completion of advance care planning documents with patients
- Facilitate advance care planning conversations with patients and families using various communication tools and techniques
- Identify advance care planning reimbursement opportunities with CMS and various insurance companies?
Faculty
- Stephanie VanSlyke, BA, RN, HEC-C
Requirements for Successful Completion
In order to receive continuing education credits, you must complete these steps prior to the activity expiration date.
- Read the Disclosure Information found in the To Dos section.
- Complete the learning activity
- Complete the evaluation
- Complete the post-test with a score of 80% or better
- Upon successful completion of the post-test your certificate of completion will be available to print or save
Accreditation Statement and Contact Hours
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by University of Nebraska Medical Center and Partners in Bleeding Disorders Education Program. University of Nebraska Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
PHYSICIANS/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
The University of Nebraska Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0? AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONERS
The University of Nebraska Medical Center designates this activity for 1.0 ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should only claim credit for the actual time spent participating in the activity.
SOCIAL WORKERS
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Nebraska Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 general continuing education credits.
Financial Support
Supported by an educational grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.
Contact Information
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