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Decision-Making

1.0 Continuing Education Credit Hour

This module reviews the issues that affect how decisions are made with regard to end-of-life care. In long-term care settings, many of these decisions may seem foregone conclusions however, as the health status of a resident changes, these decisions need to be re-evaluated. The transition from a cure orientation to a palliative care orientation, advance directives, the hospice option, and other special clinical considerations are addressed.

Objectives

  1. Describe the process of shifting from a cure orientation to a palliative care orientation.
  2. Define advance directives.
  3. List the benefits and the barriers of hospice as a care option.
  4. Identify at least one strategy to resolve a special clinical decision-making problem facing clients and their families.
  5. Resolve the Decision-Making case study.
  6. Identify at least five special clinical issues that require sophisticated decision-making competencies on the part of clients, families and health care workers to provide for safe end-of-life care.

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Online Module

When completing the on-line module you will be presented with learning objectives, brief cases, questions for reflection (not scored), and interactive lessons with hyperlinks to engage you along the way. Once you complete the lessons, you will be presented with the Post Test (which requires a score of 100%) and then the Module Evaluation, followed by the opportunity to print your Continuing Education Certificate. Modules remain available for your future reference once you have completed them.