Women`s Health, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault & Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care 2019

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.

Topics

• 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

Who should Attend

• Physician Assistants
• Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners. Attorneys
• Nurses
• Psychologists