Pediatric Palliative Care Training Series - Module 5: Pediatric Palliative Care - The Spectrum of Complex, Chronic and Fatal Conditions in Pediatric Palliative Care is available for 90 days after enrollment.

2 hours

The fifth in a series of ten pediatric palliative care modules, The Spectrum of Complex, Chronic and Fatal Conditions in Pediatric Palliative Care provides an overview of the most common illnesses and their related trajectories encountered by palliative care services. The module will help you determine the appropriate conditions and timing for a palliative care consult/referral and identify key roles that the pediatric palliative care team can provide for children and their families coping with a host of life-threatening diseases whose course is generally long and complicated.

Objectives:

• Describe at least five situations in which a palliative care consult would be appropriate
• Determine appropriate timing for a pediatric palliative care consult along an illness trajectory
• Differentiate which situations call for palliative care to provide a supportive role vs. situations that call for palliative care to become the patient’s medical home
• Familiarize you with some of the most common illnesses the pediatric palliative care and hospice practitioner sees
• Provide background on those illness trajectories most commonly seen in pediatric palliative care and hospice settings
• Illustrate the services the pediatric palliative care team and hospice care team can provide and the most appropriate time for referral

In order to complete this online course and obtain CE/CME credit, the participant must view the entire course, correctly answer all case studies and quiz questions and complete the evaluation.

You will have access to this course for 90 days from the date of purchase.

Subject Matter Experts: Cassandra D. Hirsh, DO, Pediatric Palliative Care Physician and Sarah Friebert, MD, Director; A Pallete of Care: Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care of Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio. Neither Dr. Hirsh nor Dr. Friebert have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Course Release Date: 7/25/12

Course Expiration Date: 7/25/15

Counselor: NHPCO is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors, Inc. for continuing education for national Certified Counselors. NHPCO adheres to NBCC continuing Education Guidelines. This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and counselors are awarded continuing education credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse:  NHPCO is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours. Nurses should claim only the contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Accredited status by ANCC refers only to continuing nursing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product discussed in conjunction with this activity.

Physician: The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Worker: NHPCO is an approved provider of continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886414158). This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and social workers are awarded continuing education hours commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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