At the end of September, I travelled to California for the California State University 2nd Annual National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education & Research At this conference I was delighted to co-present with Olga Ehrlich and Raeann Leblanc , on on integrating palliative care in core curriculum in the presentation title “Palliative and End of Life Nursing Education P4 Model.”
It was interesting to have participants take the AACN Competencies addressing hospice and palliative care for undergraduate nurses, and identify where in the nursing program the competencies could be addressed, and what resources could be used to help prepare students to meet the competencies. If you haven’t had the opportunity to reasd these competencies yet, take a moment to breeze through them. They speak of the firm desire to provide excellent hospice and palliative care, from diagnosis to death, and into bereavement.
My favorite quote from this conference was,
“The tipping point has been reached. Palliative Care is now the “must have” clinical program in the US and around the world. Now the challenges falls to academia to prepare the workforce….”
CSU Institute for Palliative Care.
From Oct 8-10, I was at the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association Conference in Palm Springs My favorite presentations were:
Ask most people when palliative care should start for someone living with dementia, and you'll often hear "near…
By: Dr Daphna Grossman When we talk about dementia, there is so much to talk about. We talk…
Maria Panzera Rugg's Women's Equality Day reflection on Personal Support Workers/Care Aides named something that shouldn't need naming,…