• General Palliative and Hospice Care
  • What is Palliative Care?
  • The "Good Death": Identifying Patient Values and Goals
  • The Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team: Optimizing Whole Patient Care
  • Ethical and Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care
  • Assessing Decision-Making Capacity

• Pain and Symptom Management
  • Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Effective Pain Management
  • Using Opioids in Patients with Advanced Illness
  • Incorporating Adjuvant Medications for Bone and Neuropathic Pain
  • Patient Controlled Analgesia: Pearls and Pitfalls
  • Managing Common Physical Symptoms: Nausea, Dyspnea, Constipation
  • Managing Common Psychological Symptoms: Anxiety, Depression, Delirium

• End-of-Life Communication
  • How to Deliver Difficult News
  • Talking with Patients and Families: How to Introduce Hospice Care
  • How to Discuss DNR Status with Patients and Families
  • Determining and Communicating Prognosis: Pearls and Pitfalls
  • Exploring Cross-Cultural Aspects of End-of-Life Care
  • Advance Care Planning

• Other Core Topics
  • Last Hours of Life: Understanding the Physiology of Dying
  • Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at the End-of-Life
  • Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies
  • Negotiating "Futile" Care
  • Palliative Sedation: Pros and Cons
  • "Share The Care": Supporting Caregivers
  • Caring for Patients and Families: Grief and Bereavement
  • When Your Patient Dies: Caring for Yourself
  • Moral Distress

Email or call Cheryl Siefert at 303-780-4979 for additional information or to arrange a palliative care presentation.