Registration Open: Spring 2024 Palliative Care Virtual Series
Posted: April 17, 2024
Patient Self-Determination: Same Dog, New Twists
Session 1: Wednesday, May 22nd – 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Presented by: Cindy Bruzzese, MPA, MSB, HEC-C – Executive Director & Clinical Ethicist, Vermont Ethics Network; Clinical Ethicist, UVM Medical Center.
Join Cindy for a review of new developments in the advance directive statute and a conversation about reframing our approach to advance care planning to improve the quality of the documents we create with patients.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this activity, learners should be able to:
- Articulate recent modfications to the Vermont Advance Directive Statue per passage of Act 88
- Appreciate the ethical and legal frameworks within which patient self-determination occurs
- Apply shared decision-making principles to advance care planning conversations and documents
Topics to be covered in upcoming sessions:
- Medical Aid in Dying
- Hospice
- Guardianship
