2020 Midwest Regional Virtual Conference on Palliative and End of Life Care

2020 Midwest Regional Virtual Conference on Palliative and End of Life Care is organized by Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association (MHPCA).

Event Date: October 1 - November 20, 2020

Accreditation:
Credit Designation for Nursing
AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for a maximum of 17.0 contact hours.

Description:
The Midwest Regional Virtual Conference on Palliative and End of Life Care is sponsored by the Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association. The conference is designed to assist health care professionals in understanding the health care issues when treatment changes from curative to palliative care. Palliative care focuses on comfort and quality of life. Palliative care is the foundation of hospice services; however, the principles are applicable to any setting where care is being provided to the terminally ill.

Purpose:
The Midwest Regional Virtual Conference on Palliative & End of Life Care seeks to provide education for a multidisciplinary group Of health care professionals to increase the quality of end of life care.

Goals:
• Improve standards ofpractice through education of professionals and others involved in providing end of life care;
• Improve access to appropriate end of life care through the alignment of individualized needs with available care;
• Stimulate dialogue on ethical issues related to end of life care.

Objectives:
Learners will be able to:
• Describe and apply tools used to identify patients appropriate for end of life care;
• Use effective pain and symptom management medications and treatments to improve outcomes; List communication tools to improve difficult and painful discussions of end of life concerns, and apply to practice;
• Recognize importance of coordination of care when multiple providers are involved, and utilize in the clinical setting;
• Examine current policies and regulations for providers ofend of life care.