Four Seasons Compassion for Life

Palliative Care Immersion Course

In Joint Sponsorship with:

Continuting Medical Education

Palliative Care Immersion Course
Join the Four Seasons team in a dynamic educational experience aimed at developing your competencies and knowledge base in palliative care.  In this modern learning environment, instructors provide didactic sessions, facilitated role play, critique, and situational modeling of mock patient- provider interactions that will engage and challenge all levels of palliative care providers.  The course curriculum covers clinical issues of symptom management, ethics, goal setting, and communication techniques.  Participants will also develop an understanding of critical factors that impact the financial model.  They will learn how to improve sustainability through effective billing and coding, setting visit expectations, and transitioning of patients to hospice.  It is our expectation that participants will leave the course with significantly improved prognostication and business skills, and a solid understanding of complex case management.


Covered modules will include the following: 

  • Nuts and bolts of palliative care
  • Palliative care in various settings
  • Quality based palliative care - National Quality Forum
  • Assessing whole person care; mind, body, spirit
  • Communication Strategies and Techniques
  • Goals of care
  • Complex case management
  • Conducting effective family meetings
  • Withdrawing and withholding treatment
  • Prognostication
  • Basic and advanced pain management
  • Advanced symptom management
  • Palliative care emergencies
  • Pediatric palliative care
  • Advance care planning
  • Ethical issues around futile care
  • Culturally competent palliative care
  • Dealing with drug addiction - contracts and policies
  • The role of the chaplain in spiritual care
  • Team dynamics
  • Billing and coding issues
  • Administrative needs for palliative care
  • Data tracking
  • Self care

Who should attend?
The Immersion in Palliative Care Course is designed for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and clinical nurse specialists, who are either new to the field of HPC, or want to enhance their clinical skills as well as improve the design/efficiency of their palliative care program.

"I would recommend this course for anyone who has recently begun a career in hospice and palliative medicine, or for anyone who wishes to improve their own skills in caring for patients with these terminal diagnoses.  It was money well spent, as I feel my own ability to practice palliative care was significantly improved." Read more...

    -Steve Sorensen, MD


Registrant Information
Tuition Costs: $3,500.00
This fee includes course materials, templates, and PowerPoint presentations. Snacks and lunches will be provided each day.

Dates of Conferences:  March 19-23, 2012 ~ June 25-29, 2012 ~ October 22-26, 2012

Click here to register for our March 19-23, 2012 Course

Click here to register for our June 25-29, 2012 Course

Click here to register for our October 22-26, 2012 Course

Participation is limited to allow for effective learning environment.
To register or for more detailed information, contact program manager Jeanne Bailey at 828-233-0345 or pcimmersion@FourSeasonsCFL.org.

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Credit 

CME
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The Mountain Area Health Education Center (Mountain AHEC) and Four Seasons. The Mountain AHEC is accredited by the ACCME through the NC Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit: The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: MAHEC adheres to the ACCME Standards regarding industry support to continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and commercial support relationships, if any, will be made known at the time of the activity. 

CEUs

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 4.0 CEUs (40 contact hours) as established by the National Task force on the Continuing Education Unit. You must attend the entire workshop to receive CEUs.