E-News - March 2006
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1. What's New at www.eperc.mcw.edu
2. Click Here!
3. Journal Focuses on Pediatric End-of-Life Care
4. Wear a White Ribbon in March
5. AAMC News
6. Weekly Reading
7. Call for Proposals
8. Training
9. Meetings/Conferences
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1. WHAT'S NEW AT www.eperc.mcw.edu
Fast Fact and Concept #150 - Prognostication in Dementia
(2/17/2006)
Fast Fact and Concept #151 - Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
(3/02/2006)
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2. CLICK HERE!
How to Talk About End of Life While Promoting Hope
www.codaalliance.org
Coda Alliance has produced the Go Wish card game,
and easy, even entertaining way to promote
conversations about goals for end-of-life care.
Open Source Software: A Primer for Health Care
Leaders, March 02, 2006
http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemid=119091
The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
For training opportunities and resources
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC
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3. JOURNAL FOCUSES ON PEDIATRIC END-OF-LIFE CARE
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
The journal Pediatrics takes on the hard-to-take topic
of end-of-life care for children in its March issue,
with a study indicating that palliative care is sorely
lacking. Researchers sent questionnaires to nearly
100 parents who had recently lost children, asking
what could have been done to make this worst possible
time of their lives more tolerable.
Articles tackle euthanasia and disabilities, "futile"
care, and what parents want from doctors and hospitals.
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4. NHPCO IS ASKING YOU TO WEAR A WHITE RIBBON IN MARCH
TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ADVANCE CARE PLANNING
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
is encouraging all Americans to wear a white ribbon
beginning in March to increase awareness of advance care
planning.
The advance care planning ribbon was created by NHPCO
to help people focus on the message: "It's About How
You LIVE." The LIVE message is at the heart of NHPCO's
Caring Connections public engagement campaign encouraging
people to "Learn, Implement, Voice, and Engage" in
improving care at the end of life. The white awareness
ribbon reflects the message of peace long associated
with the dove.
Read NHPCO's complete press release online.
http://www.nhpco.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=4816
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5. NEWS FROM AAMC
AAMC TASK FORCE WILL EXAMINE INDUSTRY INFLUENCE ON
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Responding to recent calls for academic medicine to take
the lead in eliminating conflicts of interest between
physicians and the pharmaceutical and medical device
industries, the AAMC will form a high-level task force
to provide guidance on managing such conflicts.
The task force will be asked to examine the interactions
that drug and device makers have with the educational
mission of medical schools and teaching hospitals, and
to recommend safeguards to ensure that industry marketing
efforts do not undermine the objectivity of educational
programs or otherwise bias the evidence-based decision
making of physicians. This effort has been endorsed by
members of the AAMC Executive Council.
Information: Go to
http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/pressrel/2006/060221.htm
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6. WEEKLY READING
13 Article Abstracts on PubMed + 2 Free Online Issues
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Schrader SL, et al
Education in end-of-life care: bridging disciplinary
and institutional boundaries.SDJ Med 05 Sep;58(9):379-88.
PubMed ID: 16422552
Howe JL, Witt Sherman D
Interdisciplinary educational approaches to promote
team-based geriatrics and palliative care.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2005;26(3):1-16.
PubMed ID: 16446268
Morrison RS
Health Care System Factors Affecting End-of-Life Care.
J Palliat Med. 2005;8 Suppl 1:s79-87.
PubMed ID: 16499472
Wittenberg-Lyles EM.
Information sharing in interdisciplinary team
meetings: an evaluation of hospice goals.
Qualitative Health Research. 15(10):1377-91,
2005 Dec. PubMed ID: 16263918
Foley KM
Improving palliative care for cancer: a national and
international perspective.
Gynecol Oncol. 2005 Dec;99(3 Suppl 1):S213-4.
PubMed ID: 16419210
Koffman J, Higginson IJ
Assessing the effectiveness and acceptability of
interprofessional palliative care education.
J Palliat Care. 2005 Winter;21(4):262-9.
PubMed ID: 16483095
Brayne S, Farnham C, Fenwick P
Deathbed phenomena and their effect on a palliative
care team: a pilot study.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2006 Jan-Feb;23(1):17-24.
PubMed ID: 16450659
Malloy P, et al
Evaluation of End-of-Life Nursing Education for
Continuing Education and Clinical Staff Development
Educators.
J Nurses Staff Dev. 2006 January/February;22(1):31-36.
PubMed ID: 16465096
Paice JA, Ferrell BR, Virani R, Grant M, Malloy P,
Rhome A
Graduate nursing education regarding end-of-life care.
Nurs Outlook. 2006 Jan-Feb;54(1):46-52.
PubMed ID: 16487780
Meier DE, Beresford L
Palliative care/intensive care unit interface:
opportunities for mutual education.
J Palliat Med. 2006 Feb;9(1):17-20.
PubMed ID: 16430339
Kwekkeboom KL, Vahl C, Eland J
Impact of a volunteer companion program on nursing
students' knowledge and concerns related to palliative care.
J Palliat Med. 2006 Feb;9(1):90-9.
PubMed ID: 16430349
Chan GK
End-of-life and palliative care in the emergency
department: a call for research, education, policy
and improved practice in this frontier area.
J Emerg Nurs. 2006 Feb;32(1):101-3.
PubMed ID: 16439303
Buikstra E, Pearce S, Hegney D, Fallon T
SEAM--improving the quality of palliative care in
regional Toowoomba, Australia: lessons learned.
Rural Remote Health. 2006 Jan-Mar;6(1):415. Epub 2006
Feb 22. PubMed ID: 16494533
FREE ONLINE JOURNAL ISSUE/ARTICLES OFFERED
(A)Journal of Palliative Medicine (www.liebertpub.com/jpm),
was widely acknowledged at this year's AAHPM conference
in Nashville for the increased number and quality of
papers that are being published in the Journal.
See for yourself! View a free online issue at
www.liebertpub.com/jpm along with subscription
information. For further details you can contact
Paula Masi at mailto:pmasi@liebertpub.com.
If you are also interested in the AAHPM's Hospice/
Palliative Training for Physicians: The UNIPAC Book
Series and earning up to 48 CME credits,
visit www.liebertpub.com/uni
(B)The March issue of Academic Medicine includes several
articles on information technology in medical education.
Two of the articles in the issue are free to non-subscribers:
"The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education" and
"An Evaluation of Four Proposals to Reduce the Financial
Burden of Medical Education."
http://www.academicmedicine.org
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7. CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization is accepting proposals for
its 21st Annual Management and Leadership
Conference, Quality: Leadership, Care and
Outcomes. This year's management meeting
will be held September 9 - 13, 2006 in
New York City.
The deadline for submitting proposals is
April 3, 2006. Proposals are submitted
online via the NHPCO Web site.
www.nhpco.org/MLC2006.
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8. TRAINING
PAIN MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE
The UCSF Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management
Online Program is now accepting applications for the
2006-07 academic year. Download application form and
brochure, see admissions requirements, curriculum, and
registration procedures at:
http://paincare.ucsfmedicalcenter.org
Students completing this program earn an official
postgraduate certificate from UCSF.
Final Deadline to Apply: July 7, 2006
Online Instruction:
September 18, 2006 through June 15, 2007
Laurie Snyder, Manager (415) 885-7269
UCSF PainCARE - Center for
Advanced Research and Education
mailto:snyderla@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
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9. MEETINGS/CONFERENCES
The Many Facets of Hospice Care
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2006
7:30 am - 12:15 pm
UMDNJ-SOM University Doctors Pavilion
http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/BROCHURE%20CME%20April%201%202006.pdf
2nd Annual Alaska Palliative Care Symposium
April 305, 2006
Anchorage Alaska
http://www.palliativeak.org
mailto:cdecourtney@anmc.org
Oncology Nursing and the Treatment of Pain
Audio Conference presented by CAPC
April 11, 2006 1:30 - 2:45 PM Eastern
10:30 - 11:45 AM Pacific
Featured Speaker: Patrick Coyne, MSN, APRN. BC
Clinical Director, Thomas Palliative Care Unit
Massey Cancer Center of Virginia Commonwealth
University
http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/2006-04-11
Pain Management for Non-Pain Specialists
Santa Monica, CA
12 Category 1 CME Credits from Harvard
Date: 5/6/2006 - 5/7/2006
Course #: 00262290
Who should attend: nurse practitioner, social work,
dental, emergency medicine, general practice, neurology
http://cme.hms.harvard.edu/index.asp?SECTION=CLASSES&ID=00262290&SO=N
The Politics of Pain
17th Annual Meeting of the AACPI
June 15-17, 2006
Phoenix, AZ - Hyatt Regency Plaza
Keynote Speaker:
Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS Senior Scientist, RAND
http://www.aacpi.wisc.edu/17Meeting/index.htm
'Become an EPEC Trainer' Conference
June 23-25, 2006
Seattle, Washington
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
To register, call the EPEC Project at (312) 503-3732
or mailto:shawn-buchanan@northwestern.edu
http://www.epec.net/EPEC/Webpages/Ecommerce/itemDetail.cfm?productID=122
Slice of Life 2006 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Pre-Workshops
July 04-05, 2006
Main Meeting
July 05-08, 2006
http://slice.utah.edu
email: mailto:suzanne.stensaas@hsc.utah.edu
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