Hospice and Palliative Care Training for Physicians: UNIPAC, 3rd Edition (All 9 volumes) with CD-ROM
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The 3rd edition of the Hospice/Palliative Care Training for Physicians: UNIPAC book series has been extensively updated and provides readers with a solid foundation in our field. Updated topics include the hospice/palliative medicine approach to care, psychological and spiritual pain in the seriously ill, assessment and treatment of pain, management of selected nonpain symptoms, communication and the interdisciplinary team, ethical and legal decision making, care of patients with HIV/AIDS, and pediatric palliative care. In addition to these eight volumes previously offered, the 3rd edition includes a ninth, new book covering the palliation of CHF, COPD, and dementia. Featuring evidence-based guidance, clinical case studies, and pre- and posttests, the Hospice/Palliative Care Training for Physicians: UNIPAC book series is a valuable reference for clinicians who care for patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses. Up to 54 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM are also available. The cost for CME is $60/book or $10/CME. |
U1. The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Approach to Life-Limiting Illness
- Learn the definItion of hospice and palliative medicine and the history and philosophy of the specialty.
- Get a comparative look at curative versus palliative models of care.
- Discover the roles physicians, patients, and families play in hospice and palliative care.
- Overcome barriers to providing care to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
U2. Alleviating Psychological and Spiritual Pain in Patients with Life-Limiting Illness
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- Learn the physician's role in providing psychological, social, and spiritual care to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
- Gain strategies for managing emotional strain.
- Get acquainted with major world religions and their frameworks.
- Gain assessment tools and guidance to effectively evaluate for and address anxiety, depression, loss of hope and dignity, and social and spiritual pain.
U3. Assessment and Treatment of Physical Pain Associated with Life-Limiting Illness
- Learn the three basic principles of pain management: through assessment, treatment, and reassessment.
- Get pain assessment tools, medication tables, and specific interventions for treatment of different kinds of pain.
- Learn about the needs of special populations in the assessment and treatment of pain.
- Assess your knowledge of different types of pain and assessment of pain from multiple sources.
- Dispel myths about opioids and other pain-management interventions, and confront misconceptions about addition.
U4. Management of Selected Non-Pain Symptoms of Life-Limiting Illness
- Explore selected nonpain symptoms experienced by patients with life-limiting illness, including dyspnea, dysphagia, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, bowel obstruction, and delirium.
- Receive expert guidance on assessment and treatment of selected emergent conditions, such as airway obstruction, massive hemorrhage, SVC syndrome, cardiac tamponade, hypercalcemia, seizures, and spinal cord compression.
- Gain useful assessment tools and evidence-based guidance on treatment of nonpain symptoms.
- Explore complimentary and alternative therapies to treat troubling nonpain symptoms experienced by patients with life-limiting illness.
- Learn strategies to address restlessness.
- Learn about issues and gain critical guidance on therapeutic sedation.
U5. Communication and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician's Role on the Interdisciplinary Team
- Learn about barriers to and strategies for effective communication.
- Gain strategies for communicating bad news.
- Improve communication skills with select patient populations such as children of dying patients and patients with dementia.
- Confront many communication challenges hospice and palliative care providers face every day.
U6. Ethical and Legal Dimensions of Treating Life-Limiting Illness
- Learn a step-by-step process for ethical decision making.
- Receive comprehensive guidance on addressing selected ethical issues, such as advance directives, DNAR orders, medically futile treatments, informed consent, palliative sedation, and physician assisted death.
- Read AAHPM position statements on many ethical dilemmas facing hospice and palliative care physicians today.
- Discover the ethical and legal dimensions of pain management and how to confront them.
U7. The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Approach to Caring for Patients with HIV/AIDS
- Learn about pharmacologic interventions at the end of life.
- Read about management of common symptoms associated with HIV/AIDS.
- Learn strategies for addressing caregiver issues.
- Get key medication tables and guidance on working with HIV specialists and the interdisciplinary team.
U8. The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Approach to Caring for Pediatric Patients
- Learn the differences that exist between palliative care of adults versus pediatric patients.
- Confront the unique clinical, ethical, psychological, developmental, and spiritual issues of caring for pediatric patients with life-limiting illnesses.
- Gain critical guidance on managing pain and nonpain symptoms.
- Get comprehensive medication tables specific to pediatric patients.
- Learn about nonpharmacologic interventions, sedation at the end of life, and communication issues specific to pediatric patients.
- Gain strategies for managing grief and bereavement.
U9. The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Approach to Selected Chronic Illnesses: Dementia, COPD, and CHF
- Read the latest evidence in palliative care of chronic illness.
- Learn about epidemiology and disease trajectory of dementia.
- Learn about management and treatment options for these chronic illnesses.
- Gain guidance on symptom control, end-stage issues, and caregiver issues in the care of patients with chronic illnesses.
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