AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
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Case Management Monthlypresented on December 5, 2007 With an effective palliative care model in place, your organization can reduce costs, length of stay, and readmissions in the hospital setting. And you don’t have to treat palliative care as a specialty service in order to get these results.
Rely on your case management team to build a model of palliative care
By making palliative care a core competency of case management (CM) and creating interdisciplinary CM/palliative care teams, every one of your patients can be screened for palliative care needs.
For the practical, how-to steps to implement a case management-based palliative care program, listen to HCPro's Formal Palliative Care in Case Management: How to implement cost-saving models that work. During this 90-minute audioconference, expert speakers, Yvonne M. D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, and Laura Matthews, RN, ACM, CHPN, discuss the effectiveness and benefits of a palliative care system in various settings, and provide practical strategies and tools for case management to drive a formalized palliative care process, screen patients, organize staff education, and handle difficult patient populations.
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Identify the differences between hospice, comfort, end-of-life, and palliative care
- Recognize barriers to palliative care and solutions to overcome these challenges
- Implement a formalized process for palliative care to suit your hospital
- Select a palliative care model using case management as change agents
- Use screening tools to identify those who would benefit from palliative care
- Recognize fiscal benefits of palliative care for the hospital and the patient
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:
- Palliative care screening tool
- Palliative care patient identification screening tool
- Approaches to difficult patient populations
- Needs assessment tool
- Consult note
- Karnofsky rating score tool
- List of resources
These materials are provided with PDF links.
AGENDA
- Palliative care
- Differences between hospice, comfort care, end of life, and palliative care
- Barriers to palliative care and solutions to overcome them
- Where and when does futility of care start?
- Lack of a team leader
- Administration not understanding fiscal impact
- Physician resistance
- Nursing skills
- Implementation of palliative care in a wide variety of cultures
- Death not normalized in society
- Implementation of a formalized process
- Core competencies and Joint Commission mandates
- Who qualifies for palliative care?
- Unique patient populations
- Screening tools
- Education and certification
- Case examples: How to avoid common pitfalls
- Palliative care models for teams and individuals
- Criteria for palliative care teams
- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) model
- Case management as change agents
- Fiscal benefits of palliative care
- Cost savings
- Decreased length of stay in the ICU
A question & answer session follows the presentation.
FACULTY
Yvonne M. D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, Pain and Palliative Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Ms. D’Arcy served on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and served as chair of the Clinical Practice Committee of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses. She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, American Pain Society, American Academy of Pain Management, and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In 2005, she was voted Advance Practice Nurse of the Year at Suburban Hospital and received the Lambert Foundation Award. She is the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Excellence in Nursing district award for Advancing and Leading the Profession for 2007.
Laura Matthews, RN, ACM, CHPN, Palliative Care Coordinator at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, Oregon. Ms. Matthews has been a nurse since 1981 and worked in various positions, all of which seemed to follow her life’s path. Labor and delivery when she was pregnant, pediatrics when her children were small, and home health and hospice as her parents aged. She became passionate about palliative care and case management in the acute care setting, and has been involved in its growth and success in the care model.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Directors of case management, case managers, social workers, nurses, hospital administrators, hospitalists
AUDIO ARCHIVE
In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences, we now offer an audio archive option. An audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or refresher for veteran staff.
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