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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
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Principle 6. Manage Symptoms Effectively
Principle 7. Consider the Impact of Stress on Caregivers
Principle 6. Manage Symptoms Effectively
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Stress that the provision of comfort and relief of symptoms is part of the management plan
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Practice good symptom management in order to maximize quality of life even during periods of maximum effort to restore full function and health
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Many patients, parents, and family members unnecessarily remember their periods of acute health crisis as miserable
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Approaching the relief of suffering in this way permits the physician to convey accurately to the family what aspects of the plan are going to continue, even if other treatments will be stopped
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