Announcements

Updated February 16, 2006

Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

Fast-Track Your Palliative Care Program: Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) Training

A national initiative supported by The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Whether your institution is just starting a hospital palliative care program, or seeking to strengthen it, the PCLC training/mentorship program provides the guidance you need.

Highlights include:

• Two-days of intensive hands-on training, technical assistance, and practical tools
• Full-year mentoring by Leadership Center faculty
• Step-by-step instruction on designing, financing, and marketing successful palliative care programs
• Interdisciplinary team approach: targeted to physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators and other healthcare professionals interested in starting palliative care programs

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

Register now for Winter/Spring 2006 at www.capc.org/pclc. Sessions fill months in advance. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis only.

Upcoming Dates and Locations:

Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN
January 18-20
March 29-31
Healthsystem-wide palliative care program with consult teams in academic and community hospitals

Massey Cancer Center of Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
Academic medical center with NCI-designated cancer treatment facility
January 23-24
February 20-21
March 20-21

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Academic medical center with adult and pediatric palliative care
January 25-26
February 20-21
March 20-21
April 17-18
May 22-23

Mount Carmel Health System, Columbus, OH
Community hospital/health system program built from the hospice-hospital partnership
March 16-17
April 20-21
May 18-19

Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY
Part of Hospice of Bluegrass
February 22-23

March 8-9
March 22-23
April 5-6

University of California, San Francisco, CA
Academic Medical Center with hospitalist leadership
February 2-3
April 3-4

Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care in the ICU: Interventions That Work
February 17 & 18, 2006
Miami, Florida

To help all critical care professionals overcome barriers to provide the highest
quality end-of-life care, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has developed the informative conference Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care in the ICU: Interventions that Work. During this two-day educational offering, participants will learn successful interventions, optimal standards and proven practices that promote quality palliative care for patients and their families in the critical care setting.

Participants will analyze new models of ICU care that spearhead change, encourage shared decision-making and promote better communication skills. World-renowned thought-leaders in end-of-life care will identify valid and reliable measures directly developed from their ground-breaking research and from clinical practice. Additional resources and materials will also be identified to promote awareness and encourage leadership to advance quality end-of-life critical care.

For more information: www.sccm.org/education/endoflife_course/index.asp

Palliative Care in the ICU: Spotting and Surmounting the Obstacles
March 2, 2006
1:30 - 2:45 PM EST
10:30 - 11:45 AM PST

Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)

Hear from featured speaker Judith E. Nelson, who will cover the obstacles to optimal care of patients dying in ICUs and address the best strategies to surmount them. Through this audio conference you will learn to:

• Ways to maximize the effectiveness of palliative care consultation in the ICU
• The most significant barriers to better care
• How to set goals regarding overall program growth and staffing
• What recent research reveals about the quality of end-of-life care for critically ill patients and their families
• Which tools can help to measure the quality of palliative care in the ICU and provide performance feedback to caregivers

A Q&A period will follow the panel discussion.

The cost for this call is: $45 PER LINE. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register and more information on the panel, go to http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/2006-03-02.

Oncology Nursing and the Treatment of Pain
April 11, 2006
1:30 - 2:45 PM EST
10:30 - 11:45 AM PST

Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

Hear from featured speaker Patrick Coyne, who will discuss how you can incorporate appropriate pain relief techniques into your care of cancer patients. Through this audio conference you will learn to:

* Identify barriers to adequate pain relief at the end-of-life
* List components of a thorough pain assessment
* Describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies used to relieve pain

A Q&A period will follow the panel discussion.

The cost for this call is: $45 PER LINE. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register and more information on the panel, go to http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/2006-04-11.

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.