Webinar Series WB0050
Part of AACN Critical Care Webinar Series
Presenter(s): Wendy Anderson, MD, MS; Kathleen Turner, RN, CHPN, CCRN-CMC
Contact Hours 1.25
CERP A 1.25
Expires May 01, 2025
Topics: COVID-19, Palliative/End-of-life Care, Communication, Family-Centered Care
Role: Staff
In this interactive case-based webinar, the presenters demonstrate the communication skills that critical care nurses employ when providing primary palliative care to seriously ill patients. Three conversations are described: between the nurse and the patient or family, between the nurse and the provider, and within a family conference. By applying specific strategies for eliciting another’s perspective, providing emotional support and giving information, nurses can navigate these conversations and facilitate clear communication about disease prognosis and patient goals of care.
Videos created by the IMPACT-ICU (Integrating Multidisciplinary Palliative Care into the ICU) team and distributed by the Vital Talk website provide a case example of nurse-led primary palliative care. Through written exercises, participants will identify challenges in communicating about serious illness, observations from the video case, and reflections on the skills that fit best with their practice.
This is Part 3 of a special three-part AACN series. Click to view Part 1 and Part 2.
Please note: This 75-minute session is prerecorded and includes reflection exercises. You will need to download and print an activity sheet and skills sheet (available within the activity) before watching. Have these sheets and a pen handy to make the most of this interactive session.
Wendy Anderson, MD, MS
Wendy Anderson is a palliative care physician and associate professor in the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and School of Nursing. Her work focuses on serious illness communication training and disseminating best practices. She is principal investigator for the IMPACT-ICU project, which integrates palliative care into the ICU by training and supporting bedside nurses. She also directs the San Francisco Bay Area Hub for VitalTalk, a nonprofit that teaches serious illness communication.
Kathleen Turner, RN, CHPN, CCRN-CMC
Kathleen Turner is a clinical nurse in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at UCSF Medical Center. She is critical care and palliative care resource nurse and a faculty member of the IMPACT-ICU project, providing communication skills training, reflective practice and clinical decision support for critical care nurses. Turner has presented at national events including AACN’s National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, to empower nurses with palliative care skills.
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.25 contact hours.
DisclosureAny relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.