How to provide best practice in palliative and end-of-life care

The role of palliative care in modern healthcare gets discussed and how it serves as an essential, additional layer of support for patients facing serious illnesses such as advanced cancer, end-stage organ failure, or
neurodegenerative diseases

Learning objectives:

We will discuss

  • The four core ethical principles guiding healthcare decisions are autonomy (respecting patient’s choices), beneficence (acting in the patient’s best interest), non-maleficence (avoiding harm), and justice (fair and equitable treatment)
  • The argument that all patients in this situation, should receive this level of support from their health care provider as part of the accepted standard of care at primary care 2 level
  • The concepts of Palliative Care as well as how clinicians can accept these concepts as a standard, additional layer of support for those living with serious conditions like advanced cancer, end-stage renal or respiratory failure, or neurodegenerative diseases
  • The difference between palliative care and end-of-life care, as misunderstandings are common
  • Expert communication skills as an essential competency for all clinicians
  • How to deliver difficult news and engage in crucial goals-of care discussions in an ethical fashion.
ATTENTIONKindly note that if you attended the live webinar and completed the questions after the event, you have already received 1 CPD point and will not be permitted to receive additional points for the on-demand video and questions. Should this occur, the HPCSA will only record 1 CPD point from the live webinar, invalidating any additional CPD points from this activity.Please note deNovo Medica ensures uploading of your CPD points to the HPCSA: please don't upload these yourself.

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