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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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) will host its Annual Assembly,
March 3-6, 2010 in Boston, MA.

For more information, go to www.aahpm.org

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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 10-16, 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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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, 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.