Early Stage Palliative Care: Assumptions and Interventions

Date: November 20, 2024
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Zoom (subscribers only)
Webinar
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In the palliative care setting, a mistaken assumption often determines the early course of care: if there are no obvious physical symptoms, then there is no real suffering or need for care. Yet research and the experience of palliative caregivers tells another story. Even in the absence of physical pain, terminally ill patients and their loved ones often report spiritual, religious, and/or existential (SRE) distress or need. Patients may not yet physically feel the implications of their terminal diagnoses, but the knowledge of impending death carries profound SRE implications that chaplains are uniquely positioned to address.

Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and leading researcher and practitioner Naomi Saks for a conversation on why the lack of integrating spiritual screening and assessment into routine palliative care neglects the real needs of patients and care partners. Saks will provide an overview of the extent research on this problematic state of affairs and offer a path forward to more fully address the needs of patients at all stages of the palliative care journey.

We thank the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care for their support of this webinar. The Institute invites the CIL community to explore their upcoming course “Online Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy.” Join this 8-week, instructor-led online palliative care chaplaincy course to explore the full circle model of spiritual care, learn to support patient goals, address physical and spiritual pain, practice cultural humility, and understand religious differences. 64 CEUs are conferred by the course. The next course starts February 5, 2025. Learn more here or scan the QR codes below.

Please register here.

We’ll be joined by:

Naomi Tzril Saks, MA, MDiv, BCC is Clinical Heath Care Chaplain at University of California San Francisco Health and Director of the Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program. She also directs the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Division of Palliative Medicine in the UCSF Department of Medicine.

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