Continuing Education Information for Live and Enduring Content
Provider awarding contact hours: Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care is the provider of contact hours. Minnesota Medical Association is the joint provider for CMEs.
Goal: To provide primary and specialty palliative care education to health care professionals serving adult patients with serious illnesses.
Learning Objectives -- Upon successful completion of this activity, learners will be able to:
- Define palliative care.
- Describe who can benefit from palliative care services.
- Identify pain types commonly seen in palliative care settings.
- Describe the broad categories of pain treatment options.
- Distinguish the ethical principles underlying palliative sedation.
- Recognize different approaches to introducing palliative care.
- Describe how Advance Care Planning (ACP) can help patients and families in their decision making.
- Explain the legal and ethical framework that allows VSED.
- Recognize grief responses in a cultural context.
Contact Hours: The Essential Palliative Summit has been designed to meet 8 contact hours for Music Therapy and 9 contact hours for the disciplines listed below. In order to earn all available contact hours, attendees must attend live sessions on Nov. 17, 2023 and complete enduring content by accessing recorded sessions that will be made available to all attendees following the live event. For more information, including a list of sessions and the corresponding CE credit for each, please visit our Continuing Education Information page.
Social Work
Physician/ACCME (This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. MMA Disclosure for learners can be accessed here.)
Nursing
Long Term Care Administration
Music Therapy (max 8 contact hours available)
Disclaimer: While any licensed professional may seek to earn CE credits from this event, it is the responsibility of the individual to verify requirements with their licensing agency or board. Please note that some licensing bodies may not approve enduring (asynchronous) content for CE credit.
