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The incidence of depression in persons over the age of 65 is increasing but often undiagnosed. Depression can impact the quality of life, function, health and risk of death among older adults. In this symposium, you’ll learn about effective ways to screen for depression and the interventions and resources to help clients.
ANA Scope and Practice Standards for Faith Community Nursing
Standard 16 | Resource Utilization: The faith community nurse utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective and fiscally responsible.
Program Speaker:
Neal C. Buddensiek MD, DNBPAS, CMD, HMDC, WCC
Dr. Neal Buddensiek serves as Chief Medical Officer for Benedictine where he consults on medical care delivery and coordinates activities with community nursing home medical directors. He has a passion for caring for the medically complex geriatric population and in building high-functioning, interdisciplinary care teams that live out the culture of continuous quality improvement and clinical excellence. His clinical journey has provided opportunities to care for patients in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and in their homes. Buddensiek also serves as President of Post Acute Medical Direction, PLLC, serving as a hospice medical director for one MN hospice agency and provides skilled nursing facility medical direction for three Benedictine Living Communities in Hastings, MN , Red Wing, MN, and St. Paul, MN. Additionally, he serves as a collaborative practice physician for Paragon Clinical, a palliative care and geriatric psychiatry practice in Illinois and as
oversight clinician for Faith Community Nurse Network (FCNN).
Over the years, he has held leadership positions at several local hospitals. Active in the medical community, Buddensiek is board certified in Internal Medicine through the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons; a certified medical director through The Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine; a certified hospice medical director through the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board; and a certified wound care
specialist through the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy. Buddensiek has been in medical practice for 17+ years.
Buddensiek holds a Bachelor’s degree from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, and received his medical training at Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, and Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, Minneapolis, MN. He lives in Mahtomedi, MN with his wife and three children.
Objectives
- Explain the importance of early detection, treatment and education in depression.
- Identify a screening tool for depression (PHQ- 9) and the need for a suicide protocol.
- Describe the PEARLS program as an example of an intervention for depression in seniors.
- Identify services and community resources to assist FCNs as they plan and provide care to their clients with depression and other health issues.
- Describe strategies for the intentional care of the spirit for those with depression.