Embracing the Challenge of Complex Conversations

Friday, November 15, 2024, 7:30 AM - 4:15 PM, Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Coralville, IA

All health care providers who care for pediatric patients with chronic conditions are encouraged to join us. We will offer sessions covering the role of narrative, complex decision making and constructing difficult conversations. We will also address challenges in self-care for us as health care providers.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (6.00 hours), ASWB Clinical CE Credit (6.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.00 hours)

1. Recognize how complexity influences decision making and how to use decision narratives as tools.
2. Apply critical thinking skills to determine how to go through a complex conversation with a family.
3. Describe the experience of families who have children receiving palliative care support.
4. Describe the layers beyond the words and how they impact families and clinicians.
5. Understand why self-care is important but difficult for healthcare professionals.
6. Discover how self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-advocacy are foundation for self-care.

Registration - Now open! 

Early Bird Registration - through October 15, 2024

• All Healthcare Professionals - $100.00
• Students - $50.00

Regular Registration - from October 16, 2024 - November 8, 2024

• All Healthcare Professionals - $125.00
• Students - $75.00

No refunds are allowed.  Group rates for registration are not available.  

In support of improving patient care, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Nurse: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this activity for a maximum of 6.0 ANCC contact hours. 

Physician: The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 6.0 clinical continuing education credits.

Other Health Care Providers:  A certificate of participation will be available after successful completion of the course. (It is the responsibility of licensees to determine if this continuing education activity meets the requirements of their professional licensure board.)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, November 15, 2024