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Overview of the Last Day of the Rotation

REQUIREMENTS:

Submission of Assignments and Evaluation:

• Palliative care work-up of one patient,

• Short essay describing your personal experience with your home visit, and

• Hospice Activity Summary form (from hospice nurse)

• Completed take-home examination

Mock Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Conference:

•  Participate in a mock IDT conference to include presenting your palliative care plan

• Faculty role models will be present, including Hospice Medical Director, Hospice Nurse, Social Worker, Chaplain, and others... 

EVALUATIONS:

• Turn in completed take-home examination derived from the lectures and readings.

• Complete evaluation questionnaires of your hospice home visits and the mock IDT conference.

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING STUDENT IDT PRESENTATIONS:  

• Clearly presents in a logical manner the clinical data in the allotted time.

• Clinical data is pertinent to the situation

• Describes how the expertise of one or more interdisciplinary team members (nurse, nursing aids, social worker, chaplain) was (or might be) used to address selected biopsychosocial problems.

• Identifies actual or potential ethical/legal dilemmas in providing hospice care to the patient and family.

• Discusses the role of the primary care physician (not the hospice medical director) in the care of the- hospice patient and family.

• Describes the impact of the terminal illness on the patient and family in the hospice setting.

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