Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 
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1. Participants will report that this activity increased their knowledge and provided a framework in which to prepare for the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing examination.2. Participants will understand their core content strengths and weaknesses to inform future study.The Hospice& Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) supports registered nurses desiring to advance their professional development with specialty certification. The ACHPN review course is designed to assist the nurse with preparation for the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse Certification exam to advance expert care of patients with serious illness...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kate Stackhouse, Jaime C. Melhorn Source Type: research
Why Can't I Have Both? – The Imperative for Concurrent Disease-directed and Palliative Care
1. Outline the key benefits, challenges, and policy implications of concurrent care.2. Compare concurrent care for children and new opportunities to provide it for adults through innovative hospice and palliative care models.3. Increase their skill in using clear and consistent language to describe and advocate for concurrent care.4. Synthesize the findings of a recent national convening and consider what they can do to advocate for supportive policies. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Phillip Rodgers, Bethany Snider, Jessica Hausauer, Rory Farrand, Wendy Chill, Benjamin Moresco, Joe Rotella Source Type: research
HMD Board Certification Review Course and Update
1. Analyze regulatory issues affecting the hospice medical director and find strategies to fulfill these requirements.2. Employ the clinical, regulatory, leadership, and administrative skills and ethical knowledge required in the role of hospice medical director.3. Provide participants with a framework in which to prepare for the HMDCB certification examination.4. Provide participants with a process to assess individualized core content strengths and weaknesses in preparation for the HMDCB certification examination to inform future study. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Bethany C. Snider, Bethany Calkins, Balakrishnan Natarajan Source Type: research
Lessons in Leadership Using the Art of Poker
1. Participants will be able to describe three initiatives which can be employed to strengthen leadership skills.2. Participants will be able to list three practices which can be used to mentor and support direct reports or team members.Back by popular demand. This interactive session will provide guidance for developing both leadership and poker skills. The first portion of the session will involve the use of didactic presentations, polls, group discussions to provide education on leadership, reading people, both at the poker table and in your work setting, using poker skills to mentor and lead your teams, and knowing whi...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ginger Marshall, Holli Martinez Source Type: research
Oncologist in my Pocket: What the Palliative Clinician Needs to Know About Hematology, Oncology and Radiation Oncology
1. Equip palliative care providers with the essential tools needed to approach upstream palliative care for patients with hematologic or oncologic malignancies.2. Foster collaborative communication techniques to “speak the language” of the hematologist/oncologist and radiation oncologist, particularly in the outpatient setting.Care of adult patients with hematologic or oncologic malignancies is increasingly complex. Hospice and palliative care (HPC) clinicians are now asked to care for them early in t he course of care, based on evidence that early palliative care improves survival, symptoms, mood, cost, and patient&...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kristina Newport, Shanthi Sivendran, Thomas W. Leblanc, Joshua A. Jones Source Type: research
Psychedelic Assisted Therapies in Palliative and Hospice Care Are Here: Let's Discuss!
1. More than 80% of learners will report that this educational activity increased awareness of psychedelics and their use in palliative and hospice care.2. More than 80% of learners will indicate increased comfort in asking questions and starting discussions within their practice on the use of psychedelics in palliative and hospice care.Explore the transformative use of psychedelic assisted therapies in the realm of palliative care and hospice during this enlightening and engaging 90-minute pre-conference session while you enjoy lunch. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Caitanya Min, Ira Byock, Michael Fratkin Source Type: research
Advanced Opioid Pharmacotherapy: Investigating all the Nooks and Crannies!
1. Describe recent advances in opioid pharmacotherapy including conversion calculations, dosing of “unique” opioids, and prevention and detection of opioid toxicity.2. Given a simulated patient, select an opioid for pain management in the current era of opioid misuse and abuse, including a patient/family history of substance use disorder.3. Describe the appropriate use of co-analgesic therapy in conjunction with opioid therapy including duloxetine, gabapentinoids, ketamine, and cannabis.This fast-paced session is not for the faint of heart! This seminar delivers a solid half-day of opioid pharmacotherapy covers three p...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Mary Lynn McPherson, Mellar P. Davis, Akhila Reddy, Amy Allen Case Source Type: research
Tackling Tough Conversations
1. Identify the three reasons why seriously ill families/ patients ask for things that you think are unreasonable.2. Clearly understand a headline.3. Acquire the skills to learn about an incapacitated patient's values.Part 1: How To Deal With Family Requests For Treatment You Think Are UnreasonableDealing with families who request treatments that the medical team think is unreasonable often leads to moral distress, and ruptured relationships. The goal of this talk is to give clinicians both a mental model and the communication skills needed to handle these difficult conversations. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Robert Arnold, Patricia H. Berry, Margaret L. Campbell, Anna Deforest Source Type: research
HPNA Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture - A Nurse Scientist's Journey and the Promise of Inclusive Leadership
1. Define inclusive leadership and how it can be practiced and implemented.2. Identify key reasons why inclusive leadership is critical for achieving equitable serious illness care.In this Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture, the audience will explore professional and leadership growth through the speaker's lived experience as a nurse, nurse practitioner, and nurse scientist and early exposures to inclusive leadership. This session will cover three key areas of inclusive leadership as they relate to nursing and hospice and palliative care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Komal P. Murali Source Type: research
Cambia Leadership Lecture: YOU are a Leader: An Interprofessional Vision for Hospice and Palliative Care's Future
1. Utilizing a moderated panel discussion, a team of interprofessional hospice and palliative care professionals will address an interprofessional vision for hospice palliative care.2. Learners will apply, evaluate, and analyze shared experiences to advance the future of hospice and palliative care through problem based learning and reflective review. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Cara L. Wallace, Bridget Sumser, Edward Pe ñate, Jennie Kung, Jennifer B. Seaman, Cristal Brown, Jennifer Fuller Source Type: research
HPNA Clinical Lecture Series - Advanced Practice Clinician Palliative Care Fellowship: A Leading-Edge Program
1. State various funding mechanisms to develop and sustain APC Fellowships.2. Discuss approaches to assessing patients ’ and families’ needs to tailor fellowship content.The looming workforce shortage of specialty palliative care clinicians is estimated to be 6000 to 18,000 (Lupu, 2010) As the population ages, the demand for expert palliative care professionals is increasing and the workforce will not be able to meet the demand. Specifically, Utah is one of the fastest aging populations in the U.S, with a projected 10% increase in persons 65 years+ by 2065. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lynn F. Reinke, Holli Martinez Source Type: research
Voices of HAPC
1. At the conclusion of this session, learners will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate the inspirational impact of diverse voices from team members ’ and patients’ sharing their journeys and work in Hospice and Palliative Care (HAPC).2. At the conclusion of this session, learners will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate the reflections focusing on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion impacting the learner's ability to increase competency, influence behaviors, and/or improve patient outcomes in hospice and palliative care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sonia Malhotra, Billy Rosa, Noelle Marie C. Javier, Rabia S. Atayee, Glen I. Komatsu Source Type: research
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning
1. “See deeply” when examining a piece of art and describe how similar strategies could be used in hospice and palliative care clinical settings.2. Gain insight into an aspect of meaning from the participant's clinical work through a work of art in the museum.The practice of hospice and palliative care provides the privilege of presence with patients, families, and colleagues at some of life's most important moments. These moments require close observation, and we often need to connect these observations to infer the deeper meaning for those involved. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Laura Morrison, Gordon Wood, Jane delima Thomas, Ali J. Zarrabi, Joshua Hauser, Paul L. DeSandre, Elizabeth Gundersen Source Type: research
A Financially Viable Palliative Care Model Supporting Persons with Dementia Living Alone or With Caregivers
1. Participants will gain the knowledge to develop a cost-effective palliative care for dementia program with cultural adaptations that will reduce neurobehavioral symptoms of patients, reduce caregiver stress, reduce hospitalizations, and increase hospice admissions.2. Participants will learn how to gather data to obtain insurance reimbursement for a low-cost and highly effective palliative care for dementia program. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gillian Hamilton, Kristen Pierson, Kylee Volk, Tamiko Azuma Source Type: research
Who's Your Mama? The Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Palliative Care
1. Describe the field of pharmacogenomics and potential uses in the practice of palliative care.2. Apply pharmacogenomic results to pharmacotherapy recommendations and patient education through case application. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Alexandra McPherson, Mary Lynn McPherson, Eric Prommer, D. Max Smith Source Type: research
