Description:
This course is designed to explore the practitioner's role in assisting with patient and family communication. One potential tool for effective communication are family meetings. Key to family meetings is bringing all parties together to discuss the patient and family current situation in an environment that allows for all to share openly. In today's global society, family meetings may not be convenient, but high quality patient care does not allow for such excuses. Learning how to best conduct these meetings in a global society is crucial to the effectiveness of the meeting outcomes. More importantly, quality patient care may rest on the outcomes of the meetings. Therefore, as a social worker, it is critical to understand how to best conduct meetings that allow for very sacred moments to take place between the dying and those who will live on.

Objectives:

• Participant will identify why family meetings are important for patients and families facing critical decisions
• Participant will identify when family meetings should be considered
• Participant will odentify how family meetings can be utilized in critical times.

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