60-minute session

Thursday, October 6, 2011

1:30 PM-2:30 PM


3H
Using Lean Principles and Practices to Promote Comfort in 24 Hours
Theresa Countryman, RN, BSN, CHPN and Linda Simon

3I
Improving Hospice Access and Outreach to Underserved Chinese Americans
Jeanne Wun, Sally Adelus, Sandy Chen Stokes, RN, MSN, Monique Kuo, MD and Victoria J. Wild

3K
Reflections: An Oral History Project
Turner West, MPH, MTS

2:45 PM-3:45 PM


4C

4D
Psychosocial Documentation: Tips for Improvement in an Era of Increased Medicare Scrutiny
Russell Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC and Kevin Singer, RN, CHPN

4I
Care Continuum Innovation through AIM (Advanced Illness Management)
James McGregor, Khue Nguyen, PharmD and Sharyl Kooyer, RN, BSN

4M

Friday, October 7, 2011

10:45 AM-11:45 AM


6C
Medication Discontinuation Syndromes: Avoiding Increased Symptom Burden
Charles Wellman, MD, FAAHPM and J. Brandon Walters, MD

6J

6L
Education of Hospice Aides
Catherine Sweeney, RN, CHPN

6M
We Honor Veterans
Miriam Morrison, BA, MA, CVA and Kathryn Smith, RN, MSN, CHPN

1:15 PM-2:45 PM


7J
Concurrent Care for Children: Section 2302 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Gwynn Sullivan, RN, MSN, Judi Lund Person, MPH and Sarah Friebert, MD

3:00 PM-4:00 PM


8D
Challenges As Growing Edges: It Really Is About Us
Patricia Goodwin, ACSW, LCSW, ACHP-SW

8F
Bridging the Gap: Grief Support Across the Care Continuum
Thomas Dennis, MDiv, MAPC, LCPC and Susan Sheehan, LCSW, MPA

8H
The Promise and Evidence of Telehospice Interventions for Improving Communication and Clinical Outcomes
Debra Oliver, MSW, PhD, Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, PhD and Deborah Randall, JD

8I
Developing Diagnosis-Specific Programming
Robin Stawasz, LMSW and Suzanne Scheib, RN, BSN, CHPN

8K

4:15 PM-5:15 PM


9A
Nurturing and Nurtured: Maintaining Professional Boundaries
Patrice Tadel, MSN, RN and Robin Fiorelli, LCSW

9D
A Different Kind of Wound Care: Healing Spiritual and Psychological Wounds
Bonnie Meyer, DMin, BCC and Sherri Weisenfluh, LCSW

9E

9G
Animal Hospice: On the Rise and Growing!
Kathryn D. Marocchino, PhD, FT and Sharen Meyers, LCSW

9J
Non-cognitive Therapies for Children to Ease Suffering at Life's End
David Steinhorn, MD, FAAP, FAHPM and Erin Mullaney, RN, MSN, PNP-BC

Saturday, October 8, 2011

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

11:45 AM-12:45 PM


12B
Topical and Transdermal Therapies for Symptom Palliation: Utility, Limitations and Future Opportunities
Neal Slatkin, MD and Michelle Rhiner, RN-BC, MSN, GNP-BC, ACHPN, CCM

12D
Ethical Decision-Making for Hospice Social Workers
Steve Wilson, Ph.D., LCSW and Erin Baker-McCuan, MSW

12E
The Gift of Blessing: Sustenance and Challenge for the Soul
Martha Rutland, DMin and Jean Hopkins, MS, CT

12F
Grief in the Hispanic Culture
Voni De Almeida, LSW

12G

12J
Innovative Palliative Care Education in a Pediatric Hospital Setting
Tonja Kay Spencer, RN, BSN, CPN and Kathy Bradley, MSN, RN, CNOR