AIG Learning Center
Palliative Sedation: Cautions, Concerns, and Indications
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Webinar Description
Caring for persons who are suffering can be extremely difficult. Participants will learn how to outline an assessment and protocol for care for persons for whom palliative sedation is being considered. Assessing psychological, social and spiritual domains of suffering can be critical in determining the best course of action. This requires very careful consideration and conversation as well as a willingness to consult and obtain ethical advice. Participants will consider differing terminology for sedation at the end of life and its ethical importance. Father Sheehan will describe what is appropriate end of life sedation and what is inappropriate using supportive documents and allocations along with an understanding of your organization’s tradition and mission.
This webinar will be a live session from our long-term care conference, "Compassion, Comfort, and Compliance in Long-Term Care." The webinar will feature footage of the speaker and the presentation slides.
Continuing Education
Administrators, nurses, social workers, recreational therapists, Catholic Chaplains, and dietitians will be eligible to receive 1.0 continuing education hours, please click here for attendance requirements and board approvals.
Registrants seeking continuing education will be asked to watch the webinar in full, write down the verification numbers, and submit a verification/ evaluation form. An unlimited number of viewers may watch the webinar but must register if they are seeking continuing education. For more information about additional viewers and attendance verification, please click here.
More Information
If you have any questions or concerns about registering and attending the webinar, or about continuing education, please contact Tricia Misonznick or Erica Balazs at (518) 537-5000.
Fr. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
Assistant to the Provincial for Senior Jesuits, USA Northeast Province of Jesuits
Fr. Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, served as Provincial of the New England Province of Jesuits from July 31, 2009 to December 2, 2014. Fr. Sheehan joined the New England Province of Jesuits on August 25, 1985, made his novitiate at St. Andrew House in Boston, MA, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 18, 1994. On April 22, 2005, he professed solemn vows in the Society of Jesus.
Fr. Sheehan was born on April 18, 1956, in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts in 1974, Dartmouth College in 1978 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1981. He trained in Internal Medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital from 1981-1984 and received further training in Geriatrics from the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program from 1989-1991. Fr. Sheehan received an M.A. in Philosophy/Health Care Ethics in 1989 from Loyola University of Chicago and an M. Div. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1994.
From 1991-1995, Fr. Sheehan was an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician and Director of Geriatric Consultation Services at Beth Israel Hospital. In 1995, Fr. Sheehan moved to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. From 1992-1995 Fr. Sheehan was the recipient of a Brookdale Foundation Fellowship in Geriatrics, and from 1999-2001 Fr. Sheehan received a faculty fellowship from the Project on Death in America and developed the Recovering Our Traditions curriculum, aimed at improved end of life care in the Catholic community.
Dr. Sheehan’s activities at Loyola University included administrative, teaching, and curricular development work in his role as Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Ralph P. Leischner, Jr. Institute for Medical Education. He had a practice in geriatric medicine along with his work in end of life care and improving palliative care, especially in Catholic healthcare. Fr. Sheehan was named one of Chicago’s Top Doctors yearly from 2002-2010. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association. In 2007, Fr. Sheehan was named a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.