Expiration Date (all CE credit must be claimed by the expiration date): May 29, 2016

Speakers:

Building a Hospital Structure to Enhance Clinical Ethics and Quality of Life Care

Denise Baird Schwartz, MS, RD, CNSC, FADA, FAND, FASPEN, Nutrition Support Coordinator, Food and Nutrition Services, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, CA

Case Study: Parenteral Nutrition Support at the End-of-Life: An Ethical Challenge

Angela DiTucci, RD, LDN, Nutrition Support Team Chair, Food and Nutrition Services, VA Boston Healthcare, West Roxbury, MA

Moderator:

Jane Hughes, PharmD, BCNSP, BC-ADM, Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care, VA Boston Healthcare, West Roxbury, MA

CE Activity Overall Goal:

This CE activity serves to promote the process of life-long learning for physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses who specialize in the sciences of clinical nutrition and metabolism.

Goal and Target Audience:

This educational activity is directed toward clinical nutrition and metabolism professionals and others who wish to update their knowledge of clinical nutrition and metabolism. By participating in this educational activity, the reader may expect to:

Acquire knowledge in the area of clinical nutrition and metabolism research
Update or confirm your understanding of appropriate clinical nutrition and metabolism practices.
Identify further learning needs as they relate to the subject matter.

Learning Objectives:

Develop a process to prevent nutrition support ethical dilemmas.
Apply patient-centered care, shared decision making, health literacy, and preventive ethics.
Use a proactive, integrated, systematic process, with measurable outcomes and sharing of best practice.
Explore end of life decision making and parenteral nutrition support.
Focus on patient autonomy in decisions to provide, withhold or withdraw nutrition support.
Utilize effective communication skills in preventing or dealing with ethical dilemmas.

Requirements for Successful Completion:

To obtain CE credit for this activity, attendees must listen to the education recording, complete an online knowledge assessment for each education recording and achieve a score of 100%, and complete an online activity evaluation. All CE credit must be claimed prior to the expiration date.

Accreditation Statements/Continuing Education Credit:

Nurses, Pharmacists, and Physicians

The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

A.S.P.E.N. designates each enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEU) per activity. All are knowledge activities.

A.S.P.E.N. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ per activity. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

A.S.P.E.N. is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 3970.

ACPE UAN: 0216-0000-15-092-H04-P

Dietitians

A.S.P.E.N., Provider Number AM005, is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR level 2. Dietitians may post comments on this program on www.cdrnet.org.

Policies/Information:

Non-Commercialism: A.S.P.E.N. subscribes to the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support. A.S.P.E.N. does not provide programs that constitute advertisement or include promotional materials. A.S.P.E.N. does not endorse any products.

Privacy and Confidentiality: A.S.P.E.N. respects the privacy of its members and website visitors. Companies that receive personal information from A.S.P.E.N. in order to execute the business of A.S.P.E.N. may use personal information only for that purpose.

Refund Policy: Refunds are not available.

Grievances: Grievances must be submitted in writing to Director of Education at A.S.P.E.N. 8630 Fenton Street. Suite 412. Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Commercial Support and Sponsorship: No commercial support or sponsorship has been received for this enduring continuing education activity.

Commercial Relationships Disclosures and Conflicts of Interest (COI) of Speakers/Faculty and Planning Committee

None of the speakers have anything to disclose.

Jane Hughes PharmD, BCNSP, BC-ADM

VA Boston Healthcare System

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