Transplant Psychiatry – the Epitome of a Biopsychosocial Specialty
Learning Objectives/Outcomes:
- Describe how the specialty of Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry deals with the interplay of psychiatric and medical issues;
- Describe the range of work done by a Transplant Psychiatrist;
- Discuss the reciprocal relationship of depression and heart disease;
- Describe medication and non-medication interventions for depression in patients with heart disease.
Clinicians’ Information on Medical Aid in Dying
This resource provides a list of educational opportunities for clinicians to continue their learning on medical aid in dying. The list includes:
Nexus Summit 2024 Seminar Showcase: Why Should Health Systems Care About Interprofessional Education
This webinar is part of the Nexus Summit 2024 Seminar Showcase series.
Register here for this and other webinars in the Showcase series.
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Care Partner Information Sheets
Care Partner pages are engaging and practical fact sheets on common and important issues related to aging and caring for older adults. Care Partners are anyone involved with, or responsible for the personal care of older adults. This includes family members, friends, home health aides, direct care workers, and community health workers. Available in both English and Spanish.
CARES Toolkit: End-of-Life Cases and Resources
The CARES Toolkit is a collection of interprofessional and discipline specific End-of-Life Cases and Resources on aging, serious illness, death, and dying curriculum topics. This evidence-based, patient-centered education and training program works to ensure that the future healthcare workforce has the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continue to improve serious illness and end-of-life care for all patients and families.
Elder Care Interprofessional Provider Sheets
Elder Care Interprofessional Provider Fact Sheets are engaging, single page, practical, and evidence-based sheets that synthesize key concepts in care for older adults. Our compendium of over 100 topics includes common geriatric syndromes and age-associated diseases and conditions. Replete with screening, assessment, and treatment tools, these sheets reinforce sound geriatric practice in an easy, free, and approachable format. Our interprofessional editorial board assures the content is relevant for all healthcare providers.
Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds Webinar Series
The Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds is made up of academic webinars regarding the ethics and implications around medical aid-in-dying.
Minnesota Health Care Directive Planning Toolkit
Why do I need a health care directive? Simply put, putting your wishes about your health care in writing helps make sure they'll be known and followed by family, friends, health care providers and others. Sometimes decisions must be made when a person isn't able to decide or communicate preferences. A health care directive communicates your wishes when you’re not able to. The Minnesota Health Care Directive Planning Toolkit helps you create a health care directive. The toolkit contains step-by-step instructions (and suggested forms) for completing a health care directive.
Death, Grief and Funerals in the COVID Age
Grief and death are on everyone’s mind. For most of us the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated death and collective grief is unprecedented. Combined with social distancing protocol, end-of life issues, death care, and grief have become even more complex.
SPIKES—A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News: Application to the Patient with Cancer
We describe a protocol for disclosing unfavorable information—“breaking bad news”—to cancer patients about their illness. Straightforward and practical, the protocol meets the requirements defined by published research on this topic. The protocol (SPIKES) consists of six steps.