Event Details
Date: Friday, February 21, 2020
Time: 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Cost: $125 / $100 MD Anderson Employee / $75 Student (must bring ID and submit statement)
Location: MD Anderson South Campus Research Building, 7455 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77054
7.91 total hours CEUs / CNEs available for Nurses, Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFTs.
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The Symposium
Spirituality and religiosity are recognized as factors that contribute to quality of life and coping strategies in many persons facing life-threatening illnesses. These life-threatening events can also give rise to spiritual distress. When combined with chronic or acute pain and other physical and psychological symptoms, spiritual distress can be a component of a patient’s total suffering which the palliative care team (The Collective Soul) seeks to alleviate, enhancing the human spirit and creating a healing environment in the middle of the distressful situation. The purpose of this advanced course is to provide a better understanding of the Palliative Care Team’s role in enhancing the human spirit and relieving patient’s bio-psychosocial and spiritual suffering.
The 2020 Steve Thorney Lecture in Spiritual Care: Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, MACP, Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics & Acting Director; Georgetown University.
Dr. Sulmasy is Acting Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University. Dr. Sulmasy holds a joint appointment at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. He is the inaugural Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, with co-appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Medicine at Georgetown. His research interests encompass both theoretical and empirical investigations of the ethics of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and spirituality in medicine. He has done extensive work on the role of intention in medical action, especially as it relates to the rule of double effect and the distinction between killing and allowing to die. He is also interested in the philosophy of medicine and the logic of diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning. His work in spirituality is focused primarily on the spiritual dimensions of the practice of medicine. His empirical studies have explored topics such as decision-making by surrogates on behalf of patients who are nearing death, and informed consent for biomedical research. He continues to practice medicine part-time as a member of the University faculty practice. He is the author or editor of six books: The Healer's Calling (1997), Methods in Medical Ethics (2001; 2nd ed. 2010), The Rebirth of the Clinic (2006), A Balm for Gilead (2006), Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life (2013), and Francis the Leper: Faith, Medicine, Theology, and Science (2014). He also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
Target Audience:
This important educational event is aimed at chaplains, ministers, clergy, spiritual care counselors, nurses, social workers and other health care professionals delivering spiritual care in the community and healthcare facilities.
Event Focus:
The purpose of this educational event is to provide community-based, hospital, chaplains, ministers and other interested healthcare professionals with skills for a better understanding of the Palliative Care Team role; embracing the human spirit of patients with advanced illness, multiple physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and religious issues. Attendees at this conference will learn the principles of Palliative Care and Hospice, the state-of-the art of physical, emotional, and spiritual symptom management. Effective communication with patients and families at the end of life. The integration of spiritual care into the Palliative Care practice.
Objectives of the Symposium:
Describe the importance and the role of the Interdisciplinary Team in the Palliative Care and Hospice setting in the care of patients with advanced illnesses and their family in a multicultural environment.
Describe the principles of management of different distressing Physical symptoms of patients with advanced illnesses.
Describe the principles of management of Distressing Emotional and Spiritual symptoms in patients with advanced illnesses and their families.
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