Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
When
Where
Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room 5403
1501 N. Campbell Ave. Tucson, AZ 85724
or
Presenter Details
"Difficult discussions: Communicating bad news”
Patricia Murphy, PhD, APRN, FAAN, FPCN
Associate Professor of Surgery
Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School
Newark, New Jersey
Murphy is recently retired as the clinical ethicist at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. She is an associate professor in the Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School Department of Surgery. Murphy was a member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, the multidisciplinary body that developed the Advance Directive and Brain Death legislation in New Jersey and the NJHA Workgroup on POLST.
Murphy completed a fellowship in Health Care Ethics at Georgetown University and has more than 50 publications in ethics and end-of-life care, which led to her selection as a Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar.
For more than 35 years, she has worked with patients who are dying and families who are acutely grieving. All of her clinical work has been in the acute care setting and she has been a principle investigator on two national grants to integrate palliative care into critical care.
Learning Objectives
- Incorporate into practice intraoperative teaching and feedback to improve operative performance.
- Incorporate cutting-edge surgical techniques and patient management strategies.
- Incorporate into practice results from recent randomized-controlled trials/studies.
- Communicate operative knowledge effectively to peers.
About
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement(s): All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.