Description:
A physician with more than 20 years of experience in hospice and palliative medicine presents his approach to the most difficult issues this specialty encounters.

Objectives:

• Participant will summarize the principles involved in making decisions about withdrawing or withholding treatment
• Participant will apply these principles to the withholding/withdrawal of artificial feeding and hydration
• Participant will apply these principles to the withholding/withdrawal of ventilation and attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  

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***Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.