Culture & End of Life Care: Collaborating with Interdisciplinary Partners

Culture & End of Life Care: Collaborating with Interdisciplinary Partners is organized by Virtual Lecture Hall (VLH).

Current CME Approval Period: November 1, 2022 - October 31, 2025
Original Release Date: November 1, 2010

Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:

• Analyze the advantages of using a skilled interpreter with limited English proficiency (LEP) patients or patients who don't speak English at all.
• Learn how and why to conduct a pre-session with an interpreter.
• Identify strategies for successful communication when working with an interpreter.
• Elicit the patient's perspective when a family member tries to speak for her.
• Encourage the patient to learn what Western medicine offers, so she can make an informed decision.
• Negotiate a treatment plan, offering your recommendations while respecting the patient's perspective.
• Collaborate with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers to meet the patient's treatment goals.
• Build a lasting relationship with the patient.
• Observe that members of the same family and culture may hold different spiritual values.
• Identify several options for resolving conflicting values.
• Analyze the results when spiritual needs are addressed in planning end-of-life care.
• Analyze how different approaches to ethical decision-making might lead to conflict between a physician and a nurse.
• Identify possible pitfalls in handling interdisciplinary conflict.
• Assess strategies for addressing interdisciplinary conflicts effectively.

1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ | 1.5 MOC