Culture & End of Life Care: Patients' Beliefs and Values
Credit hours...1.5.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.
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After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Ask questions that will help you gather information on the patient's Explanatory
• Model, or understanding, of her illness experience;
• Organize your approach to culture using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain,
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• Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate;
• Elicit and respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for
care;
• Enable patients to anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have
considered;
• Facilitate communication with others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life
care;
• Incorporate patients' values and preferences in advance care
planning;
• Identify options for responding to requests from a patient's family that raise ethical
questions;
• Analyze how to offer truth in order to elicit your patients'
preferences;
• Negotiate solutions that respect patients' preferences as well as your ethical
duty;
• Evaluate evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
practices;
• Advise patients on the basis of evidence;
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM; and
• Build trust and promote open communication with patients.
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