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COVID-19 in the Nursing Home
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Activity Length: 34 minutes
Test Time: 9 minutes
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
- Discuss how to conduct pre-emptive goals of care conversations and documentation in the context of COVID-19 and skilled nursing facilities;
- Identify updates on advance care planning and documentation in the context of social distancing and COVID-19;
- Outline when to refer patients to hospice for COVID-19;
- Discuss strategies to ensure adequate comfort medication supply for COIVD-19 patients in hospice care.
Commercial Support: This CME-certified activity has not requested or received any support or funding from commercial interests. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
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This work is conducted by the Illinois Area Health Education Centers Network Program, funded by grant No.U77HP26847 from the Health Resources and Services Administration, and administered by the National Center for Rural Health Professions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine - Rockford.
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.75 Nursing Contact Hours
- 0.75 Participation
FACULTY
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Professor and Chief, Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Co-Director, Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program
University of Chicago
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Geriatrics Fellow
University of Chicago
PUBLICATIONS
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Aliza Baron, AM owns stock in Eli Lilly. No one else in a position to control the educational content of this activity has any other relevant financial relationships to disclose.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
University of Chicago Medicine is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the entire activity and complete an evaluation form will earn .75 contact hours.
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for the COVID-19 in the Nursing Home for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
0.75 social work continuing education units are provided for this enduring activity.
Other Healthcare Professional Credit
DISCLAIMER The information presented in this activity is for continuing medical education purposes only. The opinions expressed in this educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine, or the Department/Section.