Pre-Conference Workshop: The Palliative Care Immersion Workshop (Ticketed Event)

Speaker(s)

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  Jeannine Brant, PhD, APRN, AOCN®, FAAN

  Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Director and Lead Scientist
  Billings Clinic, Collaborative Science and Innovation
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  Regina Fink, PhD, APRN, CHPN, AOCN, FAAN

  Professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine & College of Nursing
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  Susie Newton, APRN, MS, AOCN, AOCNS

  Senior Director
  TMAC / The Medical Affairs Company

In this intensive workshop, learn how to identify barriers to best palliative care practices, to measure the current state of palliative care your own practice, to design a quality improvement initiative for your own practice setting, and to avoid caregiver burnout, all through a variety of learning situations.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the top 3 challenges associated with integrating palliative care into a practice setting
• Plan strategies to integrate best practices in pharmacologic management of four of the most common symptoms experienced by patients with advanced cancer: pain, dyspnea, disease-related nausea, and depression/anxiety
• Measure the critical palliative care metrics in one's practice setting
• Design a quality improvement initiative tailored to one's practice setting