Second Annual Geriatrics Symposium - Inspire, Educate and Empower: Healthcare Decisions
This event is currently being rescheduled. Please check back for updated information. If you have already registered, you do not need to cancel your registration, but you will need to re-register when the new date is issued.
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Date/Time:
Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:30am-4:30pm
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences -present:
Second Annual Geriatrics Symposium Inspire, Educate and Empower: Healthcare Decisions
Location:
The Palace at Somerset Park 333 Davidson Avenue Somerset, NJ 08873
The conference is CME/CE-Certified.
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Bruce Miller Jr., MD, Hospice and Palliative care specialist
5.0 contact hours available for physicians, nurses, physician assistants and social workers
Join us for an immersive conference spotlighting the geriatric experience in unique and enlightening ways. This experiential conference will feature renowned interdisciplinary experts and attendees will have the opportunity to encounter geriatrics in a way they have not experienced it before.
Register today! Call 888-724-7123 or email TeamLink@rwjbh.org. When registering, please be prepared to share the three workshops* you would like to attend from the list below:
- Technology and Older Adults: Informing Decisions, Supporting Choice, and Changing Lives Today
- What if it were you: A serious illness simulation
- In The Valley of The Shadow: Faith-Based Responses to Serious Medical Illness: A Panel Discussion
- Communication Workshop: Learning To Use The Serious Illness Conversation Guide
- POLST in New Jersey: An Update
- Caregiver Stress Relief through Art: A Live Action Workshop
- More with Less: Pharmacotherapy, Polypharmacy, and Deprescribing in the Older Adult
*Availability is first come, first serve.
Accreditation and Credit designation
| In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and RWJBarnabas Health. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences 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. |
Physicians: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: This activity is awarded 5 contact hours. (60 minute CH) Nurses should claim only those contact hours actually spent participating in the activity.
Pharmacists: This knowledge-based activity qualifies for 5 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit. Pharmacists should claim only those contact hours actually spent participating in the activity.
Psychologists:
| Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This activity will offer 5 CE credits for psychologists. |
Social Workers (The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners):This program is approved for social work continuing education hours by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in accordance with New Jersey administrative code 13:44G-6.4 and recognized by The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners. This program is approved for 5 general continuing education hours.
Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. PAs may receive a maximum of 5 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.