Northern Health Palliative Care Advanced ECHO

The Northern Health Palliative Care Consultation Team is providing virtual education and support for front line clinicians, using the Project ECHO Model™. ECHO provides an opportunity for clinicians to participate in case-based learning and education with a group of palliative care experts. Each session will include a 10-15 minute didactic presentation and then the remainder of time will be spent discussing a case presentation allowing for participant questions and discussion. This session topic is fentanyl patch: Considerations and prescribing tools.

Speaker:

• Suzy Stever, R.Ph
  Pharmacist Lead, Palliative Care 

Learning objectives:

• Review properties of fentanyl
• Discuss when to use/not use a fentanyl transdermal patch
• Rotating to a fentanyl transdermal patch and off of a fentanyl transdermal patch
• Dose adjusting a fentanyl transdermal patch 5. Utilize available tools and resources

How to join:

• For more information and RSVP please contact Palliative.Care.Consult.Team@northernhealth.ca
• Agenda and more information (PDF)

CME: This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved for up to 1.0 MOC credits. This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 1.0 Mainpro+ credits.

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