Birth and Death Collide: Palliative Care for the Fetus and Newborn

There is a $30 registration fee for this CME activity.
Discounts available for current UC Davis faculty, staff or residents.

Filmed live CME activity: February 27, 2014
Expires: February 27, 2017

This internet enduring material consisting of three videos and will take approximately 2 hour to complete and meets the requirement for "End of Life" for 2.0 hours.

CME credit is obtained upon reviewing the lecture, submitting the online evaluation and successfully passing the test. An electronic CME certificate will be available after requirements are completed.

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Target Audience
This is an interactive workshop for nurses, social workers, chaplains, physicians, respiratory therapists, and all disciplines that work with this vulnerable population.

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Content Includes:


Part 1 - Overview of perinatal palliative care  (50 minutes)
Part 2 - Communicating with families around perinatal palliative care  (42 minutes)
Part 3 - Demonstration of Role Playing   (20 minutes)


Method of participation:

1. View all three videos
2. Complete the test (must get 6 of the 9 questions correct)
3. Complete the evaluation
4. Certificate will generate after passing test and evaluations are completed

Objectives - At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

          (Overview of perinatal palliative care)

1. Identify diagnoses that should prompt fetal/neonatal palliative care consideration;
2. Describe the elements of advance care planning in the context of fetal/neonatal palliative care;
3. Identify unique components of a birth plan when the fetus has lethal or potentially lethal anomalies.
   
   (Communicating with families around perinatal palliative care)
   
   
4. Identify features of the clinician-family relationship that parents value;
5. Identify 4 barriers to effective communication with parents anticipating neonatal loss;
6. Describe the elements of the SPIKES protocol for communicating with families;
7. Select a few helpful phrases to practice when discussing hope and miracles.

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Accreditation

The University of California, Davis Health System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physician Credit: The University of California,Davis Health System designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ acceptable for multidisciplinary team members

Nurse:  For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.  For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report hours of credit and fill in “CME Category 1” for the provider number).

Physician Assistant: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

Psychologist: This educational activity is recognized by the California Board of Psychology as meeting the continuing education requirements toward license renewal for California psychologist (self reporting required).
    
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Disclosures of Relevant Financial Relationships

If you have any questions please contact the UC Davis CME staff
Gwenn Welsch can be reached at gvwelsch@ucdavis.edu or phone (916) 734-5390