Kelly Counts – When Resuscitation Will Not Change the Outcomes: The Difficult Conversations

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Speaker: Kelly Counts, PhD (c), APRN, ACNP-BC, FNP-C, ENP-C

Duration: 2 Hours 01 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Nov 10, 2023 

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Health-related quality of life (QOL) has a unique meaning to every patient and caregiver. Bridging the gap between QOL and goals of care (GOC) can be seamless when the expectations are clearly communicated and consistently honored. A patient crisis is not the time to discuss advanced care planning (ACP) and GOC.

Engaging in difficult conversations with patients and families may seem taboo. Discussing goals of care prior to a crisis promotes dignity and respect to our loved ones. Fostering compassionate and open dialogue promotes dying with dignity.

Speaker

Kelly Counts, PhD (c), APRN, ACNP-BC, FNP-C, ENP-C

 
Kelly Counts, PhD (c), APRN, ACNP-BC, FNP-C, ENP-C, has been practicing in healthcare for the past 30 years and for the past 18 years, worked as an emergency medicine nurse practitioner. Her career emphasis has always been focused on emergency medicine, flight nursing, and critical care. Throughout her accumulated experiences, she has mastered crisis management, time critical decision making and encountered many difficult situations and conversations. Kelly is triple board certified as FNP-C, ACNP-BC & ENP-C. She is currently pursuing a PhD at UMKC with an emphasis on palliative care in the emergency department.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kelly Counts has employment relationships with Washington University Medical Center of St. Louis, St. Louis University, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, Goldfarb School of Nursing, and Maryville University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kelly Counts is a member of the Emergency Nurse Association and the American Association of Emergency Nurse Practitioners.

Objectives

1. Recognize the meaning of health-related quality of life and what it means to each patient.
2. Determine how to make certain the advanced care planning follows the patient through their hospitalization.
3. Evaluate new communication techniques to approach difficult conversations.
4. Implement learning strategies to ensure health-related quality of life and goals of care are patient focused and protected.

Outline

Discuss the differences between quality of life compared to health-related quality of life

Holistic care

• Physiological
• Psychological
• Spiritual
• Emotional

Multi-disciplinary conversations

• Cornerstone to QOL
• Who’s who on the “Team Patient”

Crisis management during a rapid response

Patients get scared and change their minds

Families and caregivers get scared and have a realization of crisis

Preparedness and readiness are the keys to storm management

Target Audience

• Nurses 
• Physicians 
• Physician Assistants

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