Palliative Care in 2025: Impacting Patient Outcomes

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Palliative Care in 2025: Impacting Patient Outcomes

Course of the Month - January 2025

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0.87 Contact Hour(s) of CE

Program Number:

24127023

Original Program Date:

January 1, 2025

Duration:

52 minutes

Access:

Available until December 31, 2025

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Course of the Month
January 2025

Each month, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) will offer a continuing education (CE) activity presented by experts from AANP Communities. For the first month that it is offered, the activity will be FREE and only available to AANP members. After the initial month has passed, the activity will become available to both AANP members and non-members for a fee (AANP members will pay a significantly discounted price). The featured activity will rotate each month, so be sure to complete the activity and earn your CE credit before the month ends to benefit from free access!

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Promotional Content Expires:	January 31, 2025 (11:55 p.m. CT)
Content Expires:	December 31, 2025 (11:55 p.m. CT) CE for this activity will not be available after this date.

This activity includes closed captioning.

This activity is free for AANP members

from 1/1/2025 - 1/31/2025

Overview

Palliative Medicine focuses on improving the quality of life for patients by reducing the suffering from physical symptoms, addressing the stress of serious illness, and providing this care at any stage of the disease process. Join Brett Snodgrass, DNP, FNP-C, ACHPN, FAANP, as she explains the differences in palliative medicine vs hospice and understanding the importance of advance care planning and the options for patients both inpatient and outpatient. Dr. Snodgrass provides valuable insight into the best ways to begin advance care planning to ensure the most success for patients.

Objectives

Explain what Palliative Medicine is, the difference in Palliative Medicine vs Hospice, and the role in PC.
Understand advance care planning and options for patients both inpatient and outpatient.
Utilizing the 5 Wishes Form, explain what is included in an Advance Care Plan.

Speakers
Brett Snodgrass, DNP, FNP-C, ACHPN, FAANP

Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.

Speaker Disclosures:

Salix Pharmaceuticals: Speaker’s Bureau, OIC

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Disclaimer
Individuals who have contributed to the CE Center were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.

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Additional Information
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0.87 Contact Hour(s) of CE