Speaker: Kimberly D. Acquaviva, PhD, MSW, CSE, FNAP

Title: LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care

Format: Hybrid

Objectives:

Patient Care
Apply LGBTQIA-inclusive approaches to hospice and palliative care that elicit and honor each patient’s goals, values, identities, relationships, and definition of family.

Medical Knowledge
Describe clinically relevant considerations in caring for LGBTQIA+ patients with serious illness, including how sexual orientation, gender identity, relationships, and prior healthcare experiences may affect care at the end of life.

Systems-Based Practice
Identify institutional policies, practices, and care processes that can create barriers to or facilitate LGBTQIA-inclusive care, and describe opportunities to improve the care environment.

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Recognize gaps in one’s own knowledge, assumptions, and clinical practices related to LGBTQIA+ patients and families and identify strategies for improving future practice.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Use patient-centered communication strategies to respectfully elicit and incorporate patients’ names, pronouns, identities, relationships, chosen family, and preferences for involvement in care and decision-making.

Professionalism
Demonstrate respect for the dignity, autonomy, identities, relationships, and family structures of LGBTQIA+ patients, including when a patient’s values or life experiences differ from the clinician’s own.