7:30am – 8:00am – Registration
        8:00 am-10:00am – Team Approach & Care Coordination 

• Identify the team function of the interdisciplinary group.
• Discuss the teams role in working with patients and families.
• Identify qualities of high-functioning team members.
• Provide structure for delivery of care.
• Describe care planning regulatory guidelines.
• Describe contractual requirements.
• Explain need for coordination.10:00am-12:00pm – Case Management 
• Review the admission criteria for hospice
• Describe the four levels of Hospice Care
• Describe the role of the RN Case Manager
• Identify the other disciplines that are involved with Hospice and know their role
• Describe the purpose of the IDG and why they meet weekly
• Explain how to properly document against decline
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of the dying process
• Identify ways to deal with difficult patients and families/Non-compliance12:00pm-12:30pm – Lunch12:30pm-3:30pm – Pain & Symptom Mgmt./Compounding
• Identify most common symptoms of patients at the end-of-life.
• Apply key hospice regulations in care and services provided to hospice patients.
• Review definitions and etiologies of common symptoms in end-of-life care.
• Outline pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions for common symptoms of end-of-lifecare.3:30pm-5:00pm – Boundaries/Psychosocial/Spiritual/Ethics 
• Identify roles and responsibilities of the Chaplain and Social Worker as team members.
• Identify interventions used by the Social Worker and Chaplain.
• Identify issues that arise during end-of-life, including ethical dilemmas.
• Identify self-care and maintaining appropriate boundaries

  ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

  Accreditation Statement

  In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

  Credit Designation for Nursing

  AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for a maximum of 8.0 contact hours.

  Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.