This teleconference will address care options related to cancer diagnoses and grief reactions for patients, families and professional caregivers. It will also examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management and ethical issues related to the disease.
PREREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED, WALK-IN REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE EVENT.
At the conclusion of the teleconference, participants will be able to:
• understand the complexities of working with end-stage cancer patients and families when transitioning to hospice and palliative care from curative treatment, including recognizing obstacles to the transition;
• describe the range of reactions that people who are dying of cancer may have and how to respond to those reactions through a variety of approaches and therapies;
• assess the varied ways that families and other caregivers are coping with cancer and how best to provide support in a variety of situations;
• share awareness that professionals working with cancer patients can also experience vicarious grief.
Registration fee: $25 per person includes conference, a copy of the teleconference companion book, a local panel discussion and a certificate of participation. To reduce costs, lunch will NOT be served so please plan accordingly. Registrants may apply for contact hours of continuing education credit through the Hospice Foundation of American for an additional fee. See Continuing Education Credit Information (below).
Schedule of Events
Registration: 12:00 p.m.
National Teleconference: 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location:
Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center
5445 E. Cheryl Parkway in Madison
Continuing Education Credit Information
For an additional fee, continuing education credits will be available through the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) for nurses, social workers, funeral directors, clergy, psychologists, physicians, case managers and nursing home administrators. Awarding of credits is based on the completion of the teleconference and local panel discussion.
To obtain a CE certificate, you may apply to HFA:
- Online after the teleconference: $25 fee. Your certificate can be printed from the website.
or
- Day of conference: $35 fee (check made payable to “Hospice Foundation of America”). Your certificate will be mailed four to six weeks after the conference.
Further application instructions will be available the day of the conference.
Teleconference Panel of National Experts
The national panel will be moderated by Frank Sesno, director of the school of media and public affairs at George Washington University, award-winning journalist and special correspondent with CNN.
Yvette Colon, Ph.D., M.S.W., is the director of education and Internet services at the American Pain Foundation and a clinical instructor at the Smith College School for Social Work. She has researched, published and lectured extensively on end-of-life social work practice.
Malene Davis, M.B.A., M.S.N., R.N.,C.H.P.N., is president & CEO of Capital Hospice, one of the first, largest and most experienced providers of hospice and palliative care services in the United States.
Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D., M.Div., is a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle and senior consultant to Hospice Foundation of America (HFA).
Richard Payne, M.D., is the director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life and is chairperson of the board of the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Sherry R. Schachter, Ph.D., F.T., is the director of bereavement services for Calvary Hospital/Hospice where she develops, coordinates and facilitates educational services for staff and families.
Brad Stuart, M.D., is the primary author of Medical Guidelines for Prognosis in Selected Non-Cancer Diseases, used to develop the national Medicare hospice eligibility criteria.
Teleconference Panel of Local Experts
Moderator - Cheri Milton, MSMFT, C.T. Manager of Grief Services at HospiceCare
Liz Allen, MS, OTR, NACC, UW Hospital chaplain
Susi Petta, R.N., Meriter palliative care team nurse
Kris Simon, R.N., B.S.N., M.S., HospiceCare grief counselor
Joe Hamel, family member and guidance counselor at Memorial High School in Madison
HospiceCare thanks these sponsors:
American Tissue Services Foundation
Caring for the Caregiver Program of the Area Agency on Aging of Dane County
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
Medline
Regeneration Technologies Inc.
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