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0655_CPMC_Non-Beneficial Treatments: Applying the Law and Meeting Ethical Obligations_LIVE

May 21, 2025

Description:

This webinar will focus on responding to requests for non-beneficial treatment. California clinicians increasingly confront medical futility conflicts. Typically, in these disputes, the incapacitated patient’s legally authorized decision maker requests life-sustaining treatment that clinicians judge potentially inappropriate or non-beneficial. Most of these conflicts are resolved with mediation, transfer, or surrogate selection. For the subset that remain intractable, California laws provide a fair dispute resolution pathway that legally protects clinicians and hospitals who refuse to administer interventions determined medically ineffective or contrary to generally accepted healthcare standards.

Target Audience

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Social Workers

Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this activity, the participants should be able to:

1. Explain how the California Probate Code authorizes clinicians and hospitals to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment contrary to patient or surrogate direction when the requested treatment is medically ineffective or contrary to generally accepted health care standards.
2. Recognize that most medico-legal concerns about writing unilateral orders to withhold or withdraw treatment are misplaced and not evidence-based. California laws legally protect clinicians who follow specified dispute resolution procedures.
3. Describe widely recognized best practices for resolving disputes concerning medically ineffective or non-beneficial treatment (aka medical futility conflicts).

Course summary

Available credit:

1.00 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 Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 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 Live activity was designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Hour(s). Non-physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 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 1.00 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.
1.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Sutter Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 continuing education credits.
1.00 CA BRN
This activity is approved for 1.00 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.
1.00 IPCE
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Course opens:

05/12/2025

Course expires:

06/21/2025

Event starts:

05/21/2025 - 12:00pm PDT

Event ends:

05/21/2025 - 1:00pm PDT

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Assembly Bills 1195 & 241- Culturally Appropriate Care, which is Free of Implicit Biases:

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

SDoH/CLC:

Egharevba, O. J., & Opute, A. R. (2024). Perception of social work intervention strategies of palliative care of the terminally ill patients in selected hospitals in benin city, edo state. African education indices, 13(1).

Implicit Bias

Rezaie, A., Molayi, F., Shaafi, M. S., & Ghanbari Ghalesar, M. (2024). Nurses’ perception of futile care: A narrative review. Journal of Nursing Advances in Clinical Sciences, 2(2), 106-112.

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, PhD(c), MSL, RN, NPD-BC

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