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

Palliative Care Leadership Centers™(PCLC)
Intensive, Customized Training and Yearlong Mentoring
Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (PCLC) are nine leading palliative care programs that provide intensive, customized training and yearlong mentoring for palliative care programs at every stage of development and growth.

Learn more and enroll at www.capc.org/pclc

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Incorporating Palliative Care Services into Long Term Care Facilities
Thursday, March 25, 2010
1:30-2:30 PM Eastern

Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

Join Janet Larson Braun, RN, MSPH and Todd Coté, MD, FAAHPM, FAAFP of Hospice of the Bluegrass and Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass as they discuss several models for increasing access to palliative care within long term care settings and address the barriers that currently exist.

To learn more and register, go to:
http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/03-25-10/index_html

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The Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice
Harvard Medical School Course Offering
Specialized Pediatric Track!
April 27, 2010 - May 4, 2010 & November 9-15, 2010
The Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice offers intensive learning experience for physician and nurse-educators who wish to become expert in the clinical practice and teaching of comprehensive, interdisciplinary palliative care, as well as to gain expertise in leading and managing improvements in palliative care education and practice at their own institutions. The course is delivered in two sections:

Part 1: Teaching and Learning in Palliative Care consists of 7 days of intensive learning, followed by a 6-month interim where participants work on an individual project and contribute to weekly discussions of problematic cases presented by other participants through e-mail exchanges; and

Part 2: Building a Future in Palliative Care, is a second 7-day block that includes continued experiential learning and leadership.

http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare
Contact: PallCare@partners.org

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Register now for the 2010 Spirituality & Health Care Summer Institute
 
We are pleased to announce the 2010 GWish Spirituality & Health Care Summer Institute to be held on the George Washington University campus in Washington, DC July 12-16, 2010.
 
The Institute is designed for physicians, health care practitioners and clinicians of all disciplines, administrators, educators, and others working with patients and families. Didactic, experiential, and small-group activities are integrated to provide a rich venue for discussion and knowledge sharing. CMEs, nurse contact hours, and continuing education credits for social workers and chaplains are offered.
 
Keynote speakers and workshop presenters include Josephine P. Briggs, MD, Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH; Christina M. Puchalski, MD, FACP, Founder and Executive Director, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health; Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, Senior Research Scientist, City of Hope; Rev. George Handzo, BCC, Vice President, Health Care Chaplaincy Pastoral Care, Leadership & Practice; Thomas R. Cole, PhD, Director, Medical Humanities, U Texas, Medical School, Houston; Carol Taylor, PhD, RN, Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University; William S. Breitbart, MD, Chief, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Rev. Cannon Tanya Vonnegut Beck, Rector, St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

Details and registration information for the 2010 Institute are available at www.gwish.org.

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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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3rd Annual International Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries Conference, September 23-25, 2010.
UCSF Fresno Auditorium. For more information, contact nancy@hindshospice.org or jill@hindshospice.org

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"The First International Multidisciplinary Forum on Palliative Care”, which will be held on November 11-14, 2010 at Budapest, Hungary.
This conference is aimed for all health professionals that treat adults and children though their main area of occupation is not palliative care.
The conference will include mini-courses on symptom management, workshops for coping mechanisms with the dying child, update lectures on different topics, and more. The conference will include participants from all over Europe and South America. The lectures and workshops will be held by senior palliative care professionals in Europe and North America. For more information and/or to register, go to: www.imfpc.org

 

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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, 2009. 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.