palliative care forum - Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice

PALLIATIVE CARE FORUM
August 24, 2016 | Columbus
Palliative care provides an umbrella of services
to improve the lives of patients.
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n the United States today, over 3,000 local hospice and palliative care programs offer specialized
care to people suffering from fatal illnesses, such as cancer. Good hospices are rooted in, and
responsive to, the communities they serve and to the people who live and die there.
Palliative and end-of-life care programs help improve care quality throughout the course of a patient’s
illness. Patients utilizing palliative and end-of-life care tend to be more satisfied with their overall
care and communication with providers, and they are less likely to end up in intensive care units and
emergency departments. Furthermore, providers are increasingly referring patients
to hospice care to ease suffering and better manage pain at the end of life.
This conference is designed for physicians, nurses, the interdisciplinary
team, and other healthcare providers interested in acquiring, maintaining,
or expanding the skills, both clinical and organizational, needed to function
effectively in the field of hospice and palliative care.
Plenary Sessions
The State of the Science: Update in Hospice and Palliative Care
Nick Dionne-Odom, Ph.D., RN, ACHPN
9:15 am - 10:30 am
The State of the Science was the hallmark of the 2016 AAHPM and HPNA Annual Assembly for Palliative
Care Best Practices and it promises to stimulate your thinking and advance your knowledge. Science
becomes accessible and relevant in this popular and often humorous plenary session. With a rigorous
review of research from 2015 that is relevant to hospice and palliative care, the presenter will offer critiques
and case applications important for all disciplines.
Talk About a Sticky Wicket! Managing Pain in the Face of Suspected
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Drug Abuse
Mary Lynn McPherson, Pharm.D., MA, MCPS, CPE
We are in the midst of two enormous, competing public health crises in the US - the epidemic of opioid
misuse, abuse and diversion (and deaths) and poor controlled pain. Hospice and palliative care has not
escaped this tug-of-war. Savvy hospice and palliative care practitioners must develop skills to detect drug
abuse and diversion in patients, families, and caregivers and develop effective strategies to manage the
patient/environment. Participants in this session will also learn how to manage recovering opioid abusing
patients who are not receiving opioid agonist therapy (e.g., methadone maintenance or buprenorphine)
now that they are receiving hospice care.
Breakout Sessions
CLINICAL
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
PSYCHOSOCIAL/BEREAVMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE
Responding to Difficult Questions
from Seriously Ill Patients and/or
Their Families
What We Do is Hard:
Supporting Ourselves and
Our Teams
Providing Community-Based
Palliative Care Through Home
Health and Hospice
Responding to questions and statements
raised by seriously ill patients and their
families can be difficult. Often death
and dying are not discussed even in the
face of it. Conversations with the patient
and family cannot always be planned.
This interactive session will increase
your confidence in responding to the
top questions asked of the hospice
team. “What happens next? How long
does my loved one have to live? What
does death look like? How will I know?
What about addiction? Will my pain be
managed even when I cannot tell you
I am in pain? I don’t want to be burden
to my family.” Explore tools to improve
your responses, including words to use,
open-ended questions, and empathetic
responses.
Chaplains are often called upon to
provide emotional and spiritual support
to members of the interdisciplinary
team, especially in times of crisis and
stress. This presentation will provide
information, practices and resources
on topics including compassion fatigue,
vicarious trauma, burnout, one-on-one
and small group work, and the appropriate use of ritual.
In order to meet the ongoing changes
across the health care continuum, many
home health and hospice organizations
are expanding their businesses to
provide palliative care in community
settings. Studies have shown patients
receiving palliative care in the home
have reported improved quality of life,
better symptom control and pain relief,
emotional and spiriual support, and
patient and caregiver education. This
session will provide information on the
clinical practice guidelines for palliative
care and will also address various administrative approaches, models of care, and
benefits of palliative care for home care
patients.
Lores J. Vlaminck, MA, BSN, RN, CHPN
Rev. Brad Jackson, M.Div., MHA, Chaplain
Breakout Sessions
CLINICAL
Kathy K. Clark, MSN, RN
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm
PSYCHOSOCIAL/BEREAVMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE
The Wide Gray Line: Professional
Boundaries
Culturosity: Cultural Awareness
in End of Life Care
Palliative Care Metrics:
Measuring Outcomes
Professional boundaries are limits that
define and support a therapeutic clinician
patient relationship. The very dynamic
that calls many of us to hospice and palliative care also places us at increased
susceptibility to boundary blurring, crossings or violations. Boundary violations
can carry serious repercussions for hospice and palliative care organizations.
Impact areas include clinical outcomes,
patient satisfaction, agency resource
utilization, staff burnout, and potential
legal or risk management issues. This
session will explore the cautionary flags
and present an
action plan for
establishing
health boundaries.
As we provide physical, psychosocial,
and spiritual services to our patients
and their families, we will interact with
individuals of diverse culture. This
presentation is designed to foster your
culturosity and promote your awareness and competency levels of different
cultures. The goal of this presentation is
to seek competence in cultural values
and perspectives different than your
own, to ensure we provide culturally
appropriate interactions with patients
and families.
Measurement is a critical component
for planning palliative programs, showing value for sustainability, and assisting with growth of services. Measurement should be an integral part of the
implementation of a new palliative care
program, as well as an ongoing process
showing the positive impact of the service. Programs need to tune into what
metrics are valued by core stakeholders. Palliative programs should develop
processes for collecting key metrics and
reporting this information to demonstrate
value. This presentation will review the
role of measurement, discuss types of
metrics to measure, as well as ways to
present the metrics to stakeholders.
Lores J. Vlaminck, MA, BSN, RN, CHPN
Mary Anne Durst, RN, BSN, MOL
Anne Monroe, MHA
CONTINUING EDUCATION: The Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice is an approved provider of
continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91) (OH -157, 4/1/2019).
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August 24, 2016 | 9 am - 4 pm
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About the Presenters
Kathy K. Clark MSN, RN, is the associate project director specialist for
home care in the Division of Health Care Quality Evaluation at The Joint
Commission. In this role, she oversees the ongoing review and development of standards and survey process for all settings in the home care
program (home health, hospice, DMEPOS, and pharmacy) and is the
project lead for both the Community-based Palliative Care Certification for
the home care program and the Advanced Certification in Palliative Care
hospital program. Clark is a Certified RPI Yellow Belt and Change Agent.
Nick Dionne-Odom, Ph.D., RN, ACHPN, is a post-doctoral
fellow in the UAB School of Nursing supported by a National
Palliative Care Research Center Career Development
Award and was most recently a post-doctoral fellow in
UAB’s Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program. He
is a Health Disparities Research Training Program Scholar
supported by the MSM/TU/UAB Comprehensive Cancer
Center Partnership.
Mary Anne Durst, RN, BSN, holds a BSN from Capital
University in Columbus, OH and a Masters of Organizational
Leadership from Lourdes University in Sylvania, OH. She
has been involved with hospice care on and off since the
early 1980s. For the past 5 years, she has served as Patient
Care Administrator for VITAS Healthcare.
Rev. Brad Jackson, M.Div., MHA, is a chaplain with Vitas
Healthcare in Columbus, OH. He has served in a diverse
group of healthcare contexts since 2009. As a hospice
chaplain, he offers support to the dedicated interdisciplinary
group that provides care to those with life-limiting illnesses.
He is endorsed for chaplaincy by the Cooperative Baptist
Fellowship.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel your registration
prior to five business days before the workshop,
you will receive a refund less 25% for administrative
costs. All cancellations must be made in writing.
No refunds for cancellations within four business
days from the date of the workshop. Substitutions
in keeping with the registration policy are permitted
at any time. If due to unforeseen circumstances,
OCHCH must cancel the event, registrants will
receive a full refund.
Continuing Education: Attendance for the entire
program is required to earn contact hours. A copy
of the completed Continuing Education Certificate
must also be submitted. This program will provide
contact hours to RNs and LPNs attending this
workshop. Application has been made for continuing
education credit for Social Work. The program
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Mary Lynn McPherson, Pharm.D., MA, MCPS, CPE, is a professor and vice chair for education in the Department of Pharmacy
Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of
Pharmacy. She serves on the Board of the Hospice Network of
Maryland and is also president of the American Society of Pain
Educators. She received the American Pharmacists Association
Distinguished Achievement Award in Specialized Practice, the
University of Maryland Teacher of the Year Award, the Maryland
Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists W. Purdum Lifetime Achievement
Award, and the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award
from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Anne Monroe, MHA, is physician business practice manager
for Hospice of the Bluegrass and Palliative Care Center of the
Bluegrass. She has worked in physician practice management for
20 years. Anne is responsible for program planning, budgeting,
system and data analysis, regulatory compliance, clinic operations and other physician practice management.
Lores J. Vlaminck, MA, BSN, RN, CHPN, is a consultant
for home care, palliative care, hospice, and assisted living
providing education, training, mock surveys, and mentoring
for staff development. Lores’ 40 years of professional nursing
experience spans clinical practice in cardiac and intensive care,
outpatient clinical services and as a founder and director of a
Medicare certified, home care and hospice for 19 years.
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