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Modules:
Introduction
1. Advance Care Planning
2. Communicating Bad News
3. Whole Patient Assessment
4. Pain Management
5. Assisted Suicide Debate
6. Anxiety, Delirium
7. Goals of Care
8. Sudden Illness
9. Medical Futility
10. Common Symptoms
11. Withholding Treatment
12. Last Hours of Living
13. Cultural Issues
14. Religion, Spirituality
15. Legal Issues
16. Social and Psychological
More About:
Hospice Care
Clergy and Faith Communities
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Introduction to Common Physical Symptoms
Objectives of this Module
Introduction to Common Physical Symptoms
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Many symptoms are commonly encountered in patients with advanced illness
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This module discusses the assessment and management of:
- Loss of appetite (anorexia)/weight loss (cachexia)
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Prevent the patient and family from either continuing their lives or completing life closure
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Management tailored based on underlying etiology and pathophysiology
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Several symptoms occur together and be interrelated--management may be complex
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Working knowledge of therapy, drug interactions, and potential adverse effects necessary
- Improve patient’s quality of life
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Objectives of this Module
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Know general guidelines for managing nonpain symptoms
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Understand how the principles of intended/unintended consequences and double effect apply to symptom management
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Know the assessment and management of common physical symptoms
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