Aligning Patient-Provider Expectations for Informed Consent (2.25 hrs)
$65.00
Communication for informed consent is vital for patients, families, and providers. Yet, it is often inadequate, resulting in poorly aligned expectations for a surgery, procedure, or course of treatment. This course focuses on improving communication and relational skills during the informed consent process to better align provider and family expectations, with a specific focus on surgical informed consent.
Description
Donna Luff, PhD
Associate Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice, Boston Children’s Hospital
Instructor in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Craig Lillehei, MD
Senior Associate, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital
Transplant Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Rosella A. Micalizzi MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
Stephen Brown, MD
Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice
Staff Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Communication for informed consent is vital for patients, families, and providers. Yet, it is often inadequate, resulting in poorly aligned expectations for a surgery, procedure, or course of treatment. The pre-operative encounter represents a particular challenge for surgeons, who often have limited time to establish relationships and trust with patients and families. This can result in misaligned expectations between patients, families, and providers. Such mismatch can lead to frustration, anger, and potentially litigation. This course focuses on improving communication and relational skills during the informed consent process to better align provider and family expectations, with a specific focus on surgical informed consent.
This content was created by OPENPediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical education platform for healthcare professionals. Please see www.openpediatrics.org for more information.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:
- Articulate patient, family and provider perspectives regarding the importance of enhanced communication around informed consent
- Explain the distinction between informed consent as a form to be completed and a process for aligning expectations
- Utilize strategies for aligning expectations to enhance the effectiveness of informed consent practices
In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital 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.
Physicians
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 2.25 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Policy
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.
Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:
Stephen Brown, MD : Medtronic – Stock; Johnson & Johnson – Stock; United Health – Stock; CVS – Stock
Donna Luff, PhD: None
Craig Lillehei, MD: None
Rosella A. Micalizzi, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC: None
Luke Sato, MD: None
Melissa Cousino, PhD: None
Adena Cohen-Bearak, MEd, MPH: None
Aimee Williamson: None
Valerie Fleishman: None
Lisa Burgess: None
David Diamond, MD: None
Scellig Stone, MD, PhD: Microbot Medical – Consultant; PTC – Consultant
Terry Buchmiller, MD: None
Frances South: None
Tyson Ortiz: Curia Global – Employee
Viviane Nasr, MD: None
Lauren Mednick, PhD: None
Elaine Meyer, PhD, RN: TMRW Life Sciences, Inc – Consultant and Advisor
Richard Blum, MD: None
Pamela Varrin, PhD: None
Caleb Nelson, MD: None
Christine Rachwal, RN, MSN, CCRN: None
Erin Ward, MsEd, CAS: None
David Waisel, MD: None
Additional information
| Credit Type | AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (MD, DO, NP, PA), Contact Hours (Nurse, Nurse Practitioner) |
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| Topic | Health Professional Education, Education, General Pediatrics |
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