Culture & End of Life Care: Patients' Beliefs and Values
Culture & End of Life Care: Patients' Beliefs and Values 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:
• 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, 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.
• Build trust and promote open communication with patients.