Pediatric Integrative Medicine Educational Symposium: Bringing Comfort and Joy to Those We Care for Through Mindfulness

Chicago, IL US
July 16, 2019
The goal of this training is to improve the multidisciplinary healthcare team’s knowledge of integrative methods to manage children’s pain.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for all members of the Comer Pain Champion Team: physicians, staff nurses, medical assistants, and other healthcare professionals committed to the continuous improvement of pain management in children.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Define integrative medicine and how it can be used in practice;
  • Demonstrate how to use aromatherapy with patients;
  • Describe the roles of massage and accupressure in pain management;
  • Demonstrate providing accupressure to a patient suffering from pain;
  • Practice using appreciative inquiry interviews to alleviate pain;
  • Identify the five steps of mindfulness meditation;
  • Discuss the benefits of engaging in breathing techniques to alleviate pain.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Professionalism
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Cynthia Lafond
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
Cynthia.Lafond@uchospitals.edu
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 4.00 Participation
Event starts: 
07/16/2019 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
07/16/2019 - 12:30pm
Activity opens: 
07/16/2019
Activity expires: 
10/16/2019
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Center for Care and Discovery
5700 S Maryland Avenue
7th Floor Boardroom
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Hasime Adili via e-mail at Hasime.Adili@uchospitals.edu.

 The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.

COURSE DIRECTORS
Cynthia Lafond, PhD
Director, Nursing Research
Center for Nursing Professional Practice Research
University of Chicago
 
Jennie Ott, MS
Director, Child Life and Family Education
University of Chicago


Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest 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.

Physician Credit
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.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Health Professions Credit
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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