These on-demand webinars are designed for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, social workers, chaplains and students in these professions who are seeking brief, self-directed learning on issues affected by COVID-19. To access them, viewers will be redirected to the website for the University of Chicago Center for Continuing Medical Education, and will be required to create an account, regardless of CE/CME need.
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For those seeking a virtual and interactive learning experience, please explore the Professional Development in Communication and Supportive Care program, running September 7, 2022 – February 24, 2023. For full-time professionals. 36-42 CME/CE credits are available. Registration opens mid-summer 2022.
This webinar discusses ethical difficulties in medical decision-making during COVID-19. Topics discussed include the ethics of allocation of scarce resources such as mechanical ventilation, the duty of medical staff to provide care which could put them at risk of harm, and visitor restrictions impacting patient autonomy.
Length: 40 minutes
CME/CE: .78 credits
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This webinar discusses how to care for symptoms that patients with COVID-19 may experience and include the management of: anxiety, delirium, dyspnea, respiratory secretions, and care for patients at the end of life.
Length: 40 minutes
CME/CE: .75 credits
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In this 28 minute webinar, palliative social worker AJ Fairgrieve and nurse practitioner Laura Fosler review different types of advance care planning documents, and discuss some of the challenges they have encountered with existing advance care planning documents in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. They offer insight and advice pertinent to all healthcare providers navigating advance care planning with their patients.
Length: 28 minutes
CME/CE: .5 credits
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The current pandemic has heightened public awareness about ventilators, end of life care, and mortality. It has also given us an opportunity to have earlier, more informed discussions with our patients and their families. We all share the responsibly to engage our patients in these discussions, though sometimes may feel we lack the skills to have these conversations. This webinar highlights current outcomes and provides adaptable frameworks that can be utilized to hold these difficult conversations.
Length: 15 minutes
CME/CE: .5 credits
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In this engaging 37 minute webinar, experienced palliative care nurse practitioners Ellen Norton and Laura Fosler discuss common reactions among team members caring for patients during COVID-19. They highlight practical ways to improve team morale, and process and reframe the challenges around caring for people in this new and foreign COVID-world. Suggestions for further reading and listening are also included.
Length: 37 minutes
CME/CE: .75 credits
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The current COVID19 pandemic has the potential to create mass trauma in communities. This webinar explores definitions of stress and trauma. The program discusses the essential needs for psychological safety during mass trauma situations. These concepts can be informative for understanding how individuals and groups manage stress and threats posed by the pandemic.
Length: 35 minutes
CME/CE: .75 credits
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Amid intersectional epidemics of substance use disorders, traumatic stress responses and mental health problems clinicians often have to have challenging conversations with patients with chronic medical illnesses and problematic pain medication use. Medical providers often encounter conflict with patients who don’t agree with their medical opinion that the patient has an opioid use disorder. This talk will address how different styles of conflict resolution and trauma informed care can help mitigate the impact of trauma and conflict.
Length: 34 minutes, presented in 2 parts
CME/CE: .75 credits
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This webinar discusses how to conduct pre-emptive goals of care conversations in the context of COVID-19 and nursing homes, including a review on advanced care planning, when to refer to hospice, and the use of comfort medications for palliative treatment for patients with COVID-19.
Length: 35 minutes
CME/CE: .75 credits
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This webinar discusses ways to mitigate the impact of COVID stress on exacerbations of chronic pain in patients with chronic pain and chronic medical illnesses. It describes approaches to management of underlying chronic and acute pain in patients with COVID infections across the spectrum of health care settings as well as approaches to safely manage pain medications in patients in institutional settings for patients with COVID infections. It will also address ways to taper sedation medications in patients who are approaching readiness for extubation.
Length: 28 minutes
CME/CE: .5 credits
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In this engaging 25 minute webinar, Drs. Magdalena Bednarczyk and Sasha Alexander Rackman discuss the consequences of social isolation on an older adult’s health and functional status, offer best practices for delivering care to older adults at home via telehealth, and approaches for home health care teams providing high quality care remotely.
Length: 25 minutes
CME/CE: TBD
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The current COVID19 pandemic has drawn attention to the shared nature of illness, stress, and loss. In addition to the highly contagious nature of the pandemic, rates of anxiety and depression are exceptionally high, and strong emotions may spread through social circles. This webinar discusses several strategies for attending to the psychological needs of patients, providers, and communities.
Length: 45 minutes
CME/CE: .75 credits
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