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60-minute session
Thursday, October 6, 2011
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
3C
Fall Assessment and Prevention: Tying Evidence into Practice
Cathy Emmett, BSN, MSN
3D
Dignity Therapy Implementation in a Community Hospice Setting
Lori Montross, PhD
3E
Isn’t It Time to Talk About It? An African-American Perspective on Holding onto Faith at the End of Life
Heidi L. Barham, M, Div
3G
Documenting Terminal Status: The LCDs and Beyond
Edward Martin, MD, MPH
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
3J
Blueprint For Perinatal Palliative Care: Organizational Strategies For Developing Your Community-Based Program
Suzanne Toce, MD and Lizabeth Sumner
3K
Reflections: An Oral History Project
Turner West, MPH, MTS
3M
The Art of Integration: Hospice and Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Settings
Carol Lovci, RN, BSN, MSN
2:45 PM-3:45 PM
4C
Honoring Wishes Across Settings of Care: POLST – Evidence, Advocacy and Innovation
James A. Mittelberger, MD, MPH and Susan Tolle, MD
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
4E
How Is it with Your Soul? Is Palliative Sedation an Ethical Intervention in the Case of Existential Suffering?
Jennifer Ballentine, MA
4H
FMEA - A Proactive Approach to Quality Improvement: Analyzing Risk in the Prescribing and Delivery of Controlled Substances
Michael Bolewitz, PharmD, MBA and Cathy Almon, BSN, RN, CPHQ
4I
Care Continuum Innovation through AIM (Advanced Illness Management)
James McGregor, Khue Nguyen, PharmD and Sharyl Kooyer, RN, BSN
4J
Transitions of Care for Children with Complex Medical Conditions: Tools for Enhancing Consistency Across Providers and Sites of Care
Suzanne Toce, MD
4K
QAPI for Hospice Volunteer Programs: Quit Assuming...Prove It!
Sandra L. Huster, BA
4L
Take My Hand: Helping Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Who are at the End of Life
Lisa Kynvi, MA, MT-BC, LMHC
4M
Collaborating (Safely) Over the Internet
Natasha Beauchamp, MSc
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
6D
The Palliative Care Psychiatry Program at The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice
Scott Irwin, MD, PhD
6E
The Devil Isn't in the Details: Strategies for Divine Documentation of Spiritual Care
M. Bernadine Parks, MS, PCC-S
6F
Caminando Juntos - Walking Together. An Innovative and Culturally Sensitive Bereavement Program for Latino Children and Youth
Silvia Austerlic, MA
6H
Evaluation of End-of-Life Care at a Comprehensive Community Cancer Institute
David E. Cowall, MD
6J
Hope, Healing and Humility in Action: Beyond Cultural Competence in Pediatric Palliative Care
Maureen Horgan, LICSW, ACHP-SW and Rev. Nayer Taheri, MASC
6K
Measuring Program Impact: The ACE Project - Advocating for Clinical Excellence - Transdisciplinary Palliative Care Education
Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C
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
7M
Interventions for Children and Adolescents During a Parent's Advanced Illness
Grace Christ, PhD, MA
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
8B
Non-Pharmacological Adjuncts: Supporting Dyspnea and Intractable Nausea by adding Clinical Reflexology and Aromatherapy to the Hospice Plan of Care
Valerie Hartman, RN, CHPN, CTRN
8C
Palliative Care Consultations Prior to Destination-Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Device Insertion
Holli Martinez, FNP-BC, ACHPN and Erin Davis, RN, BSN
8D
Challenges As Growing Edges: It Really Is About Us
Patricia Goodwin, ACSW, LCSW, ACHP-SW
8E
Picture Perfect Death: Meaning Making Through Narrative and Metaphor
Ronald King, DMin
8F
Bridging the Gap: Grief Support Across the Care Continuum
Thomas Dennis, MDiv, MAPC, LCPC and Susan Sheehan, LCSW, MPA
8G
Discharge from Hospice Care: Hospice Provider and Patient Considerations
Jennifer Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN
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
8J
Our Story: A Parent's Perspective on Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care
Dianne B. Gray, BS
8K
PREPARED: Preparing Residents for End-of-Life Plans and Respecting End-of-Life Decisions
Catherine McGregor, RN, MSN, FNS, C and Judy Citko, JD
8L
Breaking New Ground In Documentation Competency
Lisa Glavin
8M
Help More Patients in your Community - Improve the Effectiveness of Your Outreach and Admissions Teams
Robin Finkelstein, MBA
4:15 PM-5:15 PM
9A
Nurturing and Nurtured: Maintaining Professional Boundaries
Patrice Tadel, MSN, RN and Robin Fiorelli, LCSW
9B
Benefits and Cautions of Methadone Use
Glenn Panzer, MD
9C
I Don't Remember How To Do This - Let Someone Else Do The Math
Bernard Fischer, RPh, CPh, FASCP
9D
A Different Kind of Wound Care: Healing Spiritual and Psychological Wounds
Bonnie Meyer, DMin, BCC and Sherri Weisenfluh, LCSW
9E
Belief and Grief: What is the Connection?
Jennifer Ballentine, MA
9G
Animal Hospice: On the Rise and Growing!
Kathryn D. Marocchino, PhD, FT and Sharen Meyers, LCSW
9H
Tracking and Reducing Adverse Events
Liz Silva, MSPT
9I
Rules for the New Underground Railroad 2: Gaining Access to the Gatekeepers in the African-American Community
Katrina L. Walker, BSW, LSW
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
9K
Survey of Team Attitudes and Relationships (STAR) National Results
David Casarett, MD, MA
9L
Curtains and Walls: Grief Support for Hospice Professionals Coping with the Loss of their Own Family Member or close friend
Barb Kamlet, MA, NCC
Saturday, October 8, 2011
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
11B
Medical Acupuncture: A Non-Pharmacologic Approach to Symptom Management at the End of Life
Kirksak Jay Poonkasem, MD, LMT
11I
Joining the House of Medicine: Developing Innovative Hospice Inpatient Programs in Acute Care Hospitals
Todd Cote, MD, FAAHPM, FAAFP and Deede Byrne
11:45 AM-12:45 PM
12A
Caregiving as a Rite of Passage: Maximizing Support, Honoring Transformation
Sharon Bigger, RN, CHPN
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
12B
What Every Social Worker and Chaplain Wants to Know about Pain Management but is Afraid to Ask
April Perry, APN, M.Ed
12C
Minding Your “P’s” and “Q’s” in End-of-life Wound Care: Palliation and Quality
Marilyn Graves, MSN, RN, CHPN
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
The 2010-2011 Top 10 Survey Deficiencies Cited by CMS
Jennifer Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN
12H
Preparing for Public Reporting: Approaches of Top Quality Leaders
Martha Tecca, MBA
12I
Becoming the Student: Dialogue with South Asian Doctors about Hospice's Natural Prevalance in Eastern Cultures
Varun Mehta
12J
Innovative Palliative Care Education in a Pediatric Hospital Setting
Tonja Kay Spencer, RN, BSN, CPN and Kathy Bradley, MSN, RN, CNOR
12K
Guiding the Way: The Journey of Patients with their End-of-life Doula
Deborah Geffen-Jones, AA, NCBF
12L
A Specialized Hospice Program's Interdisciplinary Approach to the ALS Patient in End-of-life Care
Susan Whitacre, RD, Riza Carter, RN and Janice Jester, RN