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CONCURRENT #1
Thursday, March 30, 10:45 - 12:15pm
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Optimum Care: Improving Market Penetration Using a Clinical Care Model
Deborah M. Childs, MSN, CNAA, BC, The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care
Jacquelyn Kish, RN, CHPN, Hospice Buffalo
Purpose: Designing a program to meet the needs of the under served end-of life cardiac and pulmonary population
- Identify a new patient population traditionally underserved by Hospice Programs: Advanced Cardiac and Lung Disease.
- Describe how the unique comprehensive interdisciplinary team can improve patient care outcomes in a non-cancer population.
- Position your Hospice within the context of the "chronic disease-state management paradigm."
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Need to Know, Need to Teach, Building an Educational Toolkit
Patricia Martino, RN, CHPS, The Community Hospice;
Carol Shenise, MS, RN, The Community Hospice
Purpose: Learners will enhance their educational skills through knowledge, tips and interactive activities; learn skills for overcoming the challenges of teaching hospice and palliative care patients/families/caregivers; and leave with tools and "teachable" opportunities
- Discuss unique challenges posed by hospice and palliative care populations
- Apply adult learning and health literacy theories and strategies
- Experience imminent death information (signs/symptoms) in different learning modalities
- Deliver imminent death information (signs/symptoms) based on learning styles, health literacy and needs.
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Unique Psychosocial Issues Among Veterans
Jennifer Egert, Ph.D., VA New Harbor Health Care - Manhattan Campus
Purpose: To understand the unique psychological and social circumstances common among a veteran population and how these issues impact on care at end of life.
- Identify the unique psychosocial issues relevant to a veteran population
- Explain how these unique psychosocial issues may impact on adjustment and care-receiving at end of life.
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Creating a Hospice Model that Works
Genevieve Clinton, LMSW, Good Shepherd Hospice
Geraldine Maginello, RN, CHPN, Good Shepherd Hospice
Linda Rossi, RN, CHPN, Good Shepherd Hospice
Purpose: To provide hospice programs a method to create open access in nursing home settings.
- Develop a skill set to increase a nursing home population in a hospice program
- Explain components essential to developing a successful partnership
- Identify components of documentations standards between providers
- Analyze outcome measures of partnerships
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Palliative Home Care: Three Years Later and Moving Forward
Joan Dacher, PhD., RN, GNP, The Community Hospice, Inc.
Phil Disorbo, CEO, The Community Hospice, Inc.
Purpose: To increase knowledge of the Palliative Home Care (PHC) Insurance product outcomes and apply them to a framework for strategic planning and advocacy for future palliative home care initiatives.
- Identify financial and quality of the PHC product
- Describe three innovative strategies for meeting financial and quality outcomes for the PHC product
- Identify three barriers to success and how to overcome them
- Explain the strategic importance of the Palliative Home Care Insurance product outcomes
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Developmentally Disabled and Hospice: Creating Access and Meeting Special Needs
William E. Finn, President and CEO, The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc.
Judith Shanley, Esq, CEO, Southeast Works
Purpose: Participants will understand the key issues and barriers regarding hospice care access for persons with developmental disabilities in New York State.
- Identify the demographics of the developmentally disabled community
- Conceptualize the current barriers to service at end of life
- Describe the legal and ethical issues regarding proxy, guardianship and end of life health care decision making.
- Define integrated strategies for hospice care.
CONCURRENT #2
Thursday, March 30, 2:15 - 3:45 pm
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Saying "Yes" to Complex Patients
Lola Rathbone, RN, BSN, CHPN, Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.
Purpose: To trace the history of open access through one hospice agency's experience, identifying obstacles, and providing tools for success.
- Identify common history in participants' own hospice agency which reflect principles of open access
- Identify obstacles in their own experiences that have prevented open access
- Identify ways to reduce cost issues
- Examine own philosophy of care related to open access
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The Forgotten Griever: Creating a Program of Bereavement Support for the Developmentally Disabled Adult
Jeri A. Mikosz, M.Ed, MS, Center for Hospice and Palliative Care
- Explain the behavioral and psychosocial considerations of developmentally disabled grievers within grief theory framework
- Identify those factors that compound grief reactions in developmentally disabled adults
- Develop counseling strategies and interventions for helping the developmentally disabled deal effectively with grief and loss issues with the use of case studies research
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How to Talk to Grandchildren about Illness, Death and Dying
Donna Rasin-Waters, PhD, New York Harbor Healthcare System- Brooklyn VA
Vanessa I. Pilker, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Brooklyn VA Hospital
Purpose: To provide a model for needs assessment and delivery of psycho-education and intervention to veterans and their families regarding how to address issues of serious illness, death and dying with grandchildren and other significant youth.
- Consider the need for assisting families with information on how and when to address children regarding illness, death and dying.
- Translate (Interpret) needs assessment into program development and services
- Identify the stages of development and clinical outcome in a piloted project in one VA Palliative Care system.
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Gifts we Bring-Gifts we Receive: Spiritual Moments in Hospice
S. Joyce Osgood, OP, Certified Chaplain, Good Shepherd Hospice
S. Mary Louise Kelly, CIJ, Certified Chaplain, Good Shepherd Hospice
Purpose: To heighten awareness of the gifts that we bring to both our patients and families and the gifts we receive from them.
- Identify, recognize and acknowledge personal spiritual gifts, given and received
- Acknowledge the Team's spiritual gifts, given and received
- Achieve a sense of restoration and/or/feeling replenished
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Hospice and Nursing Home Partnerships: Successfully Navigating the Waters
Lesley Danskin, MD, The Community Hospice, Inc.
Lorrqaine D. Lange, RN, CNM, The Community Hospice, Inc.
Nancy R. Sokol, RN, BSN, CHPN, The Community Hospice, Inc.
- Identify four areas that challenge positive outcomes for building caring partnerships
- Identify four strategies to enhance the collaboration between the hospice and nursing home teams
- Identify ways of providing physician support
- Describe and practice communication that supports our relationships
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Improving Access to Palliative Care for Orthodox Jewish Communities: An In-Depth Update
Madeline Jacobs, Metropolitan Jewish Health System
Purpose: This program will describe an ongoing, collaborative project to learn about unmet palliative care needs in diverse, somewhat self-contained Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and translate that knowledge into new effective programs.
- Describe an innovative project that is improving the delivery of palliative care services in the Orthodox Jewish Community
- Identify issues of Jewish Medical Ethics and models of end of life decision making
- Apply methods and insights in other cultural competency efforts.
CONCURRENT #3
Friday, March 31, 10:45 - 12:15pm
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Symptom Management in Hospice and Palliative Care for the New and Seasoned Practitioner
Bonnie Walsh, R.N. CHPN, United Hospice of Rockland, Inc.
Purpose: To identify, assess and treat physical and psychological symptoms common at the end of life using palliative care techniques.
- Identify common symptoms associated with end-of-life processes for patients across the life span
- Identify potential causes of symptoms at the end of life
- Describe assessment of symptoms at end of life
- Describe interventions that can prevent or diminish symptoms at the end of life.
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Studying Yourself, Seeing Others: The Zen of Presence in End-of-Life Care
Thayer Case, OLMSW, Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.
Purpose: This presentation provides a model through which a hospice/palliative care professional can direct his or her awareness in such a way that will engender a quality of presence which, ultimately, leads to enhanced direct patient care and self preservation skills.
- Identification of personal feelings, thoughts, observations associated when entering a patient's space
- Discussion of "awareness" in different mystical traditions as well as modern psychology and their relationship to the traditional ecological model
- Explanation of the new ecological model for end-of-life care
- Application of the new ecological model to develop quality of presence.
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The Journey Continues: Cultural Competence in End-of-Life Care
Alicia Saure, The Community Hospice, Inc.
Deacon Leon E. Dukes, Bethel Baptist Church, Troy, NY
Purpose: To raise awareness and skills regarding cultural competency for optimal access and delivery of end-of-life care and bereavement services within the African American community.
- Develop working definitions of key cultural terminology
- Identify similarities, differences, and inter-relationships among African American and western medicine cultures
- Describe barriers and attitudes that the African American community has about hospice care and strategies in overcoming them.
- Describe standard practices for improving access and delivery of care for multicultural populations, discuss modal partnerships between American Faith Communities and Hospice programs to address end-of-life issues.
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Creating a Hospice Teen Volunteer Program
Susan M. Bruno, LCSW, ACSW, MSW, The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast
Purpose: To provide information on the recruitment, placement, support and retention issues unique to attracting teens, the unique qualities that teenagers posses, and how to make them an integral component of the hospice volunteer program.
- Identify the unique benefits of a teen volunteer program in end-of-life care
- Describe the five core principles of volunteer management and apply these to teens in the hospice setting
- Assess the value of teens within the hospice program.
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Food for Thought-The Roles of Hydration and Nutrition at the End of Life
Robert A. Milch, MD, FACS, The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care
Purpose: To explore the rationales for considering artificial hydration and nutrition in different end-of-life circumstances, the associated benefits, burdens and evidence base.
- Describe circumstances in which artificial hydration or nutrition might be considered.
- Formulate goal oriented treatment strategies
- Explain ethical, legal, and religious, and cultural issues surrounding artificial hydration and nutrition.
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Defining Open Access
Malene Davis, CRNH, MBA, MSN, President and CEO, Hospice Care Corp.
Purpose: To increase access to hospice services.
- Discuss the strategies of a rural hospice that practices open access
- List ways to start open access thinking within referral sources and the community.
- Identify specific populations, e.g. ESRD, that will benefit from open access policies.
- Describe messaging points to referral sources and critical elements for success
- Analyze the financial implications of open access
The material presented in the educational sessions represents the opinions of the speakers and not necessarily the views of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State. All faculty are required to disclose to program participants any relationship, including financial interest or affiliations with a commercial company, as well as discussion of unlabeled uses. A copy of the disclosure information will be made available to attendees at the meeting.
Registraion for the 26th Annua Interdisciplinary Seminar and Meeting has closed. Please check back for information regarding the 27th AISM.
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