Palliative Care Education, LLC can assist you in the design or delivery of education in the following topics:

• Pain and symptom management
  • Pain assessment and treatment; addiction issues in palliative care
  • Nausea, dyspnea, delirium, depression, etc.
  • Common cancer complications/emergencies
  • Ventilator withdrawal
• Communication skills
  • Giving Bad News
  • Discussing CPR/DNR
  • Running a Family Goal Setting Conference and Conflict Resolution (this is the most requested topic)
  • Prognositication
    
  • Discussing artificial nutrition/hydration
  • Discussing palliative care or hospice referrals
• Ethical and legal aspects of palliative care
  • Assessing decisionality
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Withholding/withdrawing life sustaining treatments
• Care of imminently dying patient and their family
• Team health and sustainability for palliative care providers
• 
  

Upcoming Speaking Events

Project leader, Institute for Health Care Improvement "Expedition" series (April-July 2010)

Managing Advanced Disease and Palliative Care: Critical Conversations at Critical Junctures

Memphis Palliative Initiative Kickoff Meeting; What every physician and nurse needs to know about palliative care programs.  (April 2010)

Keynote: Minnesota Rural Palliative Care Outcomes Congress (April 2010)

Annual Peoria Palliative Care Conference (April 2010)

Academy Health's Research Congress (June 2010)

American Hospital Association (July 2010)

CAPC Annual Seminar, October 21-23, 2010; Program Chair

Upcoming site visits for palliative care program planning:

Boston Medical Center (March 2010)

Emory University (May 2010)

St. Anthony Central Hospital, Denver, (May 2010)

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (Spring 2010)

Palliative Care Program Support

• Leadership skills assessment and mentorship
• Strategic Planning
• Negotiating for resources
• Team self-care assessment
• Program data analysis
• Workflow analysis
• Integration of palliative care throughout the health system