Palliative Care and Medical-Legal Issues at the End of Life (Jun 29 - Jul 07, 2017)

Palliative Care and Medical-Legal Issues at the End of Life is organized by Continuing Education, Inc and would be held during Jun 29 - Jul 07, 2017 at 8 Night Scandinavian Escape Cruise Conference Round-trip Southampton, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. The target audience for this medical meeting basically for Physicians, Primary Care Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Psychologists.

Objectives :

• Analyze regional and clinical differences within the United States in the provision of end-of-life care of varying intensity • Describe differing cultural approaches to end-of-life decision-making
• Explain legal recognition of death by neurological criteria and differentiate between issues involving patients satisfying that criteria and patients who do not, under the law
• Inform patients and responsible parties about a terminal diagnosis in an empathic and individualized manner • Initiate a discussion about subsequent care options, prognosis, and preferences
• Discuss ethically and legally appropriate end-of-life treatment choices with patients
• Explain the lines the law draws between appropriate and inappropriate end- of-life treatment choices for patients with decision-making capacity
• Apply evidence-based, accepted methods for determining prognosis
• Analyze factors such as co-morbidity, lifestyle and nutritional status and their effect on prognostication
• Differentiate between instructional and proxy advance directives
• Explain the difference between advance directives and physician orders regarding end-of-life treatment choices.