October 18, 2024 from 7:45 am – 5:00 pm at The Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center
The Palliative Medicine symposium will be an engaging activity for learners providing an all-day conference to enhance and build critical understanding of and improvement in communication skills in difficult conversations commonly encountered in serious illness and palliative care, such as discussing a poor prognosis, addressing spiritual concerns, or navigating end-of-life decision-making with patients and families.
Target audience: Medical and healthcare providers: APPs, physicians, hospital and nursing home administrators, social workers, chaplains, counselors, care managers, nurses, nursing assistants, clinical managers and correctional facility staff.
Registration is required by September 30, 2024. (Lunch is provided for in-person registrations)
- (All day) In-Person – $125
- (All day) Virtual – $75
- CVIM (Virtual or In-Person) – $75
- Student (In-Person) – $75
- Student (Virtual) – $0
If paying by check, please make checks payable to MNMC CME Program. For credit card payment, please call 814.231.7174.
Agenda
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7:00 am |
Registration/Breakfast |
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7:45 am
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Welcome and Opening Remarks Patricia Fogelman, DNP, ACHPN |
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8:00 am |
Keynote: Palliative Wound Care: When Healing is Not an Option Kim Colon-Cavallito, FNP-BC, CWCN – Attending Nurse Practitioner, Calvary Hospital – Bronx, NY; Wound Care Nurse Practitioner, Hospital for Special Surgery – New York, NY |
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9:15 am
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Sharp as a Tack: Discerning Decisional Capacity from Competency Erica Marden, MD – Psychiatry, Mount Nittany Health |
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10:15 am |
Break (15 min) |
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10:30 am |
Choice or Challenge: Unraveling the Ethics of Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED) Dan Hoegen, LSW, HEC-C – Clinical Ethicist, Geisinger Health System |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch (45 min) |
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12:45 pm |
Empowering Life: Advanced COPD Management with Palliative Care Collaboration Muqueet Kadri, MD – Pulmonology Medicine, Mount Nittany Health |
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1:45 pm |
Soul Searching in Serious Illness: Navigating Spiritual and Existential Distress Jeff Thoms, Chaplin, Mount Nittany Health |
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2:45 pm |
Break (15 min) |
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3:00 pm |
Staying Ahead: Essential Cancer Updates for Primary Care Providers Abhishek Seth, MD – Mount Nittany Health/Penn State Health Cancer Care Partnership |
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4:00 pm |
Cultivating Community: Normalizing Conversations About Dying, Death, and Grief Jackie Naginey Hook, MA – Spiritual Director, Celebrant, and End-of-Life Doula: Helping Grieving Hearts Heal |
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5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks, Evaluation and Adjourn Patricia Fogelman, DNP, ACHPN |
Continuing Medical Education Information
- The Mount Nittany Medical Center designates this activity for a maximum of 7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
- This program meets the criteria for 7.75 of the 12 hours required in patient safety/risk management as defined by the PA State Board of Medicine.
Accreditation
- The Mount Nittany Medical Center is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- In order to obtain CME credit you must:
- Attend the presentation.
- Complete the post-activity evaluation
NCPD Information
- This activity provides 7.75 nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hours.
- Mount Nittany Medical Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- In order to obtain NCPD contact hours you must:
- Attend the entire presentation.
- Complete the post-activity evaluation
Faculty Disclosure and Commercial Support
- None of the planners, faculty, or others in control of content for this educational activity have 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.
- This activity received no commercial support or sponsorship.
If you have questions, please contact:
Chelsea Cole
Continuing Education Coordinator
Mount Nittany Medical Center
814-234-6762 or ccole@mountnittany.org