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Sitting in the Experience of Suffering and Distress: Notes from the Field
This webinar is designed to enhance attendee’s practice competency in preparing patients and families experiencing serious illness on managing suffering and distress throughout the palliative care continuum.
Dr. Kim Curseen shares her legacy experiences in sharing techniques that support resilience in managing long-term suffering in patients with serious and complex illnesses. Using “notes from the field” she will present this learning through case presentations with outcomes of how best we, as palliative and hospice providers, can successfully respond to guiding and managing this complex component of care that has important consequences in care outcomes.
Target Audience
Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
PAs
Learning Outcomes
- Using a case-based experiential approach, our desired activity outcome is to enhance the learners' knowledge/skills/strategy or performance to increase competency, influence behaviors, and/or improve patient outcomes in preparing patients and families experiencing serious illness on managing suffering and distress throughout the palliative care continuum.
Disclosures
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.
All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Faculty
Kimberly A. Curseen, MD FAAHPM
Staff
Leah Farfan, BA
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Liz Watson, BA
Angie Tryfonopoulos, BS
Theresa Nissen, BA
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated.
Evaluation period closes March 31, 2024, at 11:59pm CT for claiming CME credit.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition Statement
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, Sitting in the Experience of Suffering and Distress: Notes from the Field has met the general CE/Lifelong Learning requirements for the following ABMS Member Boards:
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
• This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
It is AAHPM’s responsibility, as the CME activity provider for this activity, to submit participant completion information to ACCME to grant MOC credit. By submitting your evaluation, you grant AAHPM permission to submit completion information to ACCME to grant respective BOARD MOC program credit or points as applicable.
Evaluation period closes March 31, 2024, at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ABA MOC
- 1.00 ABIM MOC
- 1.00 ABP MOC
- 1.00 ABS MOC
- 1.00 CME (physician only)
- 1.00 Participation