FREE LIVE Webinar with Continuing Education Credits:
1.0 contact hour for physicians, nurses, and social workers.
In partnership with TidalHealth Peninsula Regional

In this live webinar, Dr. Joan Carpenter will identify tools for prognostication to determine hospice eligibility and will discuss the importance of establishing goals of care for the patient. Join Dr. Carpenter as she shares timely information about hospice services and show strategies for having these conversations with providers and families.

Objectives:
1. Recognize the importance of establishing goals of care.
2. Understand hospice services.
3. Identify tools for prognostication to determine hospice eligibility.
4. Discuss different strategies for talking with providers and families about hospice care.

Presenter:
Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, FPCN
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Health Scientist, Philadelphia VAMC
Nurse Practitioner, Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care

Moderator:
Lauren Blair, MSW, LMSW | Community Relations & Development Manager, Coastal Hospice

Physicians:
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accredited Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint provider ship of TidalHealth Peninsula Regional and Coastal Hospice. TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is accredited by MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: The Medical Education Team of TidalHealth Peninsula Regional designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement: The planners, speakers and Education Team of this educational activity declare they have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Nurses: TidalHealth is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for Category I continuing education units.

To successfully complete this activity and receive full contact-hour credit, you must:
1. Attend 100% of activity, missing no more than 10 minutes.
2. Complete and submit the evaluation.
There are no relevant financial relationships.

Registration is FREE!