Healthcare Professional Forming a Heart with Gloved Hands

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Empathy in healthcare settings has been consistently linked to improved patient health outcomes (Surchat et al., 2022). Yet clinicians do not consistently apply empathy, which includes affective, cognitive, and behavioral components, to help ease fears and worries and build trust with their patients and families. This educational activity is designed to support Physicians, Physician's Assistants, Nurse Midwives, and Nurse Practitioners who work together, as a team, in the ambulatory and acute care setting to improve the patient experience through the demonstration of competencies in utilizing empathy-promoting communication strategies.

The Relationship Centered Care Program consists of three separate workshops designed to enhance the healthcare clinical providers skill set using the techniques listed here during their encounters with their patients and families:

• Expressing empathy, compassion, trust, and relationship building and making lasting personal connections with patients

• Use of agenda setting and finding out what matters most to meet the patient and family’s needs

• Engage the patient and family as a partner and supporting patient self-care

• Assess cultural beliefs about health to meet the unique needs of diverse patient and family populations

• Providing information in a clear and respectful way to ensure understanding

• Managing difficult encounters and resistance in a way that supports open communication and patient autonomy

Educational components include 1:1 performance observation, feedback, and coaching to build provider skill capability through evidence-based tool application to express empathy, compassion, rapidly build trust, make connections with patients and patient care givers, set agendas in order to meet the needs of the patient and family during the encounter, and engage them as a partner in self-care management support.

Target Audience

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Learning Objectives

After attending this course learners will be able to:

1. Define sympathy, empathy and compassion. Describe the clinical benefits and outcomes of compassion and compassionate behaviors. Describe the 7 steps of the golden minute.

2. Describe the 6 steps of agenda setting.

3. Describe the importance of health literacy and state 3 health literate communication practices. Describe ways to effectively narrate care both while using the computer and during the physical exam. Describe when to assess cultural health beliefs. State questions to elicit "what matters most" to patients and families. Describe how to develop care plans based on patient-centered goals. Explain how to use "importance" and "confidence" scales to assess a patient's readiness for change. Demonstrate the skills of "ask-tell-ask" and teach-back. Identify important elements of the end-of-visit wrap-up.

Course summary

Available credit:

8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
In support of improving patient care, Sutter Health, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Sutter Health designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Hour(s)
In support of improving patient care, Sutter Health, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Sutter Health certifies this Enduring activity was designated for a maximum of 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Hour(s). Non-physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
8.75 ANCC
In support of improving patient care, Sutter Health, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This course/program has been awarded 8.75 ANCC contact hour(s). Sutter Health is accredited provider of nursing continuing professional development. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
8.75 CA BRN
This activity is approved for 8.75 contact hour(s) by Sutter Health, which is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing. (Provider Number 17182). Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
8.75 IPCE
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 8.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Course opens:

01/18/2024

Course expires:

12/31/2024

Rating:

Multiple Sutter locations

United States

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.

– Provider Designee/Verification: Kerri Maya, MSL, RN

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