Description

Palliative Care and Hospice are closely related specialties of care but are certainly not the same.  Hospice brought wisdom and expertise to end of life care in the structure of an interdisciplinary team.  Palliative care was created as a medical specialty using this model of care to answer the question, “Why can’t others with severe illness benefit from this type of care upstream in their disease?”  It makes sense to think that hospices are the health care entities with the skill set to also provide palliative care to their communities.  This workshop will lay out what is involved in starting a palliative care team in your community, discussing team structure, organizational goals, quality measures and oversight, patient selection, inpatient palliative care, staff training, and economics.  Cases will be presented for participant discussion, and sharing of personal experience will be encouraged.

Target Audience

• Hospice Homecare leadership, providers and home care nurses.       

Speaker(s)

Greg Nelson, MD Medical Director, Midland Care, Topeka, KS Dr Nelson attended K-State and then the University of Kansas School of Medicine, finishing training in 1989. While practicing general internal medicine in Dodge City, KS he volunteered as medical director for Hospice of the Prairie, and because of his love for hospice became a full time hospice physician at Midland Care in Topeka in 2007, where he still practices. He is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and currently provides palliative care to both outpatients and inpatients in Topeka.

Continuing Education

Kansas Home Care & Hospice Association is approved as a provider of CNE by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 2.5 contact hours applicable for APRN, RN, or LPN relicensure.  Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number:  LT0287-0314. 

Other disciplines will need to apply independently – a certificate of attendance for 2.0 CE hours will be provided.