OBJECTIVES:

• Recognized and discuss futile treatment considering the individual patient’s goals and treatment preferences.
• Define and differentiate between brain death, persistent vegetative state and the minimal conscious state.
• Utilize approaches to effective conversations about end-of-life care with patients and families.
• Appropriately manage challenges and requirements for withholding or withdrawing care.

FACULTY & DISCLOSURE

Rose Allen, DNP, MSM/HM, R.N., CHPN, 
Director, Bioethics & Palliative Care
Baptist Hospital of Miami 

Rose Allen, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies*.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 

ACCREDITATION
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ each.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1.5 credit hours each, CE Broker Course #20-598696, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.

This activity has also been approved for 1.5 credit each for Nurses.