Join us for this special session designed to empower anyone on the care team to have these difficult conversations with easy-to-implement, evidence-based, proven communications tools and strategies. Learn how to build rapport, give difficult news, respond to emotion, assess patient understanding, discuss prognosis, identify support systems, and elicit goals to develop a plan for care that is consistent with the patientā€™s wishes and values.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the need for a systematic approach to having more, better and earlier conversations about patient values and priorities in serious illness.
- Reviewing a structured communication tool to facilitate communication in patients with serious illness
- Discuss the value of summarizing, follow-up and documentation.
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