National ELNEC Training Sessions for 2008

Regional Training Sessions and Conferences

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Trainer Opportunities

To list your opportunity here, contact The ELNEC Project Office at pmalloy@aacn.nche.edu.

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Educational Opportunities

The Art & Science of Palliative Care Nursing: June 5 & 6, 2008, Newton Marriott (MA)
Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Featuring ELNEC faculty member, Connie Dahlin, MSN, APRN, BC, PCM. This course is especially designed for nurses in palliative care, and focuses on essential concepts in end of life care, including communication, pain and symptom management, and ethics.

Deadline to register: May 23, 2008.
For more information and/or to register, contact Anna Segelman at anna_segelman@dfci.harvard.edu or 617-582-8871.

Palliative Care in the ICU: Closing the Gap between Current Knowledge and Clinical Practice
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern.
Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
Featured speaker, Judith E. Nelson, MD, JD, will review and discuss relevant evidence and practical approaches to optimal palliative care quality for ICU patients and families. Join us and learn:

• Identify opportunities for improving palliative care for critically ill patients and their families
• Discuss strategies for improving palliative care in the ICU
• Employ a practical tool for ongoing ICU/palliative care quality measurement

The cost for this call is $89 per phone line; $99 includes one phone line plus the audio conference CD-ROM! To register and for more information, go to http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/06-18-08/index_html/

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Launches New Online Discussion Forum: CAPCconnect is First Forum Devoted to Operational Side of Palliative Care
CAPC has launched the CAPCconnect Online Discussion Forum – the only discussion forum dedicated to palliative care program development and growth. “This new discussion platform is where the palliative care community can get informed, interact with colleagues, and begin to put into practice what they learn from others,” says Lisa Morgan, CAPC Director of Communications. The forum is fully moderated by CAPC and PCLC faculty. Discussion forum topic areas include "Designing a Program," "Data Collection and Measurement," "Staffing" and "Palliative Care Out-Patient Services.”
To learn more and join, palliative care professionals can go to www.capc.org/forums
For further questions, contact: Lisa Morgan, Center to Advance Palliative Care, 212.201.2675 or lisa.morgan@mssm.edu.

August 26 & 27, 2008, "Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries." Fresno, CA
Presented by Hinds Hospice. For more info, contact Nancy Hinds at nancy@hindshospice.org
559-224-4901

16th National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, October 16-19, 2008, Clearwater, FL. For more information, go to: http://www.perinatalbereavementconference.org/

Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) Training

Benefit from two days of on-site, hands-on training and a full year of follow-up mentoring by training at one of six Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC). Learn from the experience of established palliative care programs how to finance, design, market and operate a successful program.

Interdisciplinary team approach - targeted to physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators and other healthcare professionals interested in starting palliative care programs. A national initiative of The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

Approved for 13 Hours, Category 1, Physician CME Credit. Nursing and Social Work Accreditation Pending

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Advocacy Opportunities

Advance Directives
As healthcare leaders, you know and appreciate the importance of establishing advance directives and the problems that arise when patients and families have not taken the time to consider their "end-of-life" options. These are issues that affect all of us.
National Healthcare Decisions Day will occur on April 16, 2008. The purpose of this day is to heighten awareness of the need for advance directives among beneficiaries, employees, employers, professionals and the healthcare industry in general; ultimately to raise the levels of completed directives. http://www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org/takeaction/organize_community.