Featured Library Book: Difficult Conversations in Medicine

Difficult Conversations in Medicine, edited by Elisabeth Macdonald, is a collection of essays about effective communication between health care professionals, patients, and families. Topics range from legal and ethical issues, to planning for such conversations, apologies, strong emotions and cross-cultural issues. Dr. Macdonald is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist from London, and writes in the context of the NHS and , and mostly from the point of view of physicians but will also be useful to other healthcare professionals. Finally, there is an appendix of transcriptions of illustrative conversations in order to see how others have approached them. A review of this book is available in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. You can find this book on the shelves at the library at W 62 D569 2004.

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Featured Library Book: Palliative Care

CE for PT/OT on Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain InjuryHope Through Research 2.0 contact hours for $18.00 from Wild Iris

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Discuss the characteristics of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Explain the treatment of a person with TBI.
Identify immediate post-injury complications of TBI.
Summarize the disabilities that can result from TBI.
Review methods for prevention of TBI.
Discuss the most promising areas of research for the treatment of TBI

Free CE on Palliative Care and Pain Managment

Last Chance for Comfort: An Update on Pain Management at the End of Life

Earn 2.4 contact hours from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in conjunction with an educational grant from Vista Care.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the prevalence and significance of pain at the end of life;
Identify techniques to assess pain in patients, including those unable to provide verbal reports;
List differential features of nociceptive and neuropathic pain states;
Describe effective non-pharmacological means to relieve pain;
Recognize the therapeutic benefits and potential adverse effects associated with opioid and non-opioid pharmacotherapy for acute and chronic pain states at end of life.