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Difficult Conversations: Engaging Families and Patients in Talking About Serious Illness
Lecturer: Sara L Wolfson, DNP, APRN
Sara is a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner who practices at Nebraska Medical Center. She will lend her expertise and offer insight into how to engage in conversations with patients who have serious illness or who are approaching end of life. Join Sara as she teaches why these conversations are difficult and complicated. She will help clinicians develop a framework for thinking about how to structure such conversations, and she will describe several key skills to approach these conversations with honesty and compassion. This lecture will help APPs who are working in many speciality areas, such as Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care, Gerontology, Neurology and Cardiology.