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June
2008
The mission of the Alliance for Excellence in Hospice and Palliative Nursing is to serve as the unified voice in hospice and palliative nursing to integrate and coordinate end-of-life care with other members of the interdisciplinary team, to act as a visionary for specialty trending nursing issues, to be a primary resource fostering excellence in hospice and palliative nursing, and to advance end-of-life care for the benefit of the public at large.
Note:
Proceeds from the Registered Nurse and the Nursing Assistant Self Assessment Exams now benefit The Alliance. You can find the Registered Nurse and Nursing Assistant Self Assessment Exams (SAE) on the AMP Web Site. For further information on the SAEs
link
here.
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Hospice
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2008
HPNA Membership Survey
A hearty "Thank
You" to our 1,995 HPNA members who participated in the recent membership survey. This number represents 27% of the membership and is double the participation we had in our 2005 survey! The data collected and comments are being shared with the HPNA Board and the Standing Association Committees and will be posted on the HPNA website in the near future. Thank you for your comments, your questions, your suggestions and for your time.
HPNA Clinical Practice Forum: Caring for People Who Are Not Like Me
September 5-6, 2008
Hilton Pittsburgh, 600 Commonwealth Place, Pittsburgh, PA
For reservations call 412-391-4600 (mention you are attending the Clinical Practice Forum).
***An important announcement related to those PLANNING to attend***
BOOK YOUR HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS SOON!
The National Football League has just announced that the FIRST Steelers home game will be that weekend. Pittsburgh Steelers’ fans are SERIOUS fans and travel a great distance for home games. Hotel rooms in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area will be at a premium that weekend of September 4 – 7, 2008. Once our room block is full you can contact HPNA for a listing of other area hotels.
Register Online
for this event for additional savings.
Additionally, two pre-conferences are available on Friday, September 5, 2008, that are priced separately from the conference fees.
Download conference brochure (pdf file).
2009 Annual Assembly Call for Proposals
The 2009 Annual Assembly sponsored by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association will be held
March 25 – March 28, 2009 in Austin, Texas.
The call for
Clinically Based proposals is now closed.
The call for Proposals for
Research Based topics will be open July 14, 2008 to August 18, 2008. A 3rd call for
Professionals in Training Case Conferences will open in the October, 2008.
Generalist Clinical Review Train-the-Trainer workshop scheduled
The next Generalist Clinical Review Train-the-Trainer program will be held on:
Saturday, September 20, 2008 Hyatt Regency, Dearborn, Michigan
The one-day workshop is for experienced hospice and palliative Registered Nurses who wish to become HPNA Approved Educators. Presented in a Train-the-Trainer format, participants will be taught facilitation skills to prepare them to teach the Clinical Review.
Link
to Application
Newest HPNA Publications
The Compendium Of Treatment Of End Stage Non-Cancer Diagnoses: Neurological Diseases And Trauma is now available for advance purchase from the HPNA National Office.
Written by Judith Paice and edited by Patrick J. Coyne Neurological Diseases and Trauma is designed to serve a resource in constructing an appropriate plan of care for individuals and their families experiencing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebrovascular accident, and traumatic brain injury. These modules examine the incidence of each disease process, the pathophysiology of the illness, appropriate assessment techniques, and treatments as the disease progresses. The modules further define the psycho-social implications. The modules specifically question the potential ethical, economic and research implications as related to each specific disease process.
Link here to order
online.
With this final Compendium now available, we are now able to offer the Compendium of Treatment of End Stage Non-Cancer Diagnoses Collection: one of each of the 7 titles for the price of 6! Orders are now being taken. Cost is $150.00 for HPNA members and $210.00 for non-members.
Link here to order the Compendium Collection
online.
Beginning June 16, 2008, all of the Compendium products will be sold out of the HPNA National Office.
New
HPNA product:
Practice Drivers
HPNA Practice Drivers help keep you up-to-date on evidence-based practice. They are summaries of research articles on a variety of clinical topics. Each article is succinctly condensed to give you just the information you need to practice. After the article summaries is a list of
Practice Points which recaps the “take to practice” points from the articles. A collection of three topics are selected each quarter and placed on a flash drive. Each topic is prepared as a PDF file which can be printed and shared with colleagues.
Winter
2008 is available now with article summaries of:
• Enteral Feeding in Patients with Neurogenic Dysphagia
• Management of Terminal Secretions
• The Use of Opioids and Sedation at End of Life
Spring
2008 contains article summaries of:
• Cancer-related fatigue
• Cancer-related constipation
• Cancer-related depression
Click here to order this HPNA Practice Driver
Provisional Group formation in Lafayette, Louisiana
The Lafayette Provisional Group will meet at 2600 Johnston Street, Lafayette, Louisiana. at 5:00 PM on 06/24/2008. For more information call Lona Carroll RN at 1-337-232-1234 or E-mail her at
lmcarroll2002@yahoo.com.
Upcoming weekly
teleconferences: Must pre-register; call HPNA at 412-787-9301
Professional Nurse
No Teleconference in July
Journal Club Successful Management of Malignant
Bowel Obstruction (Wed. June 18, 2008 3 pm ET)
Nursing Assistant Spiritual Care (Wed. June 25, 2008 3 pm ET)
Newest posts on the HPNA website:
Call for Nominations for the 2009 Circle of Life award
The AHA Circle of Life Award, of which HPNA is a co-sponsor, honors innovative programs in palliative and end-of-life care. All organizations or groups in the United States that provide palliative or end-of-life care are eligible for the award. Award nomination deadline is
August 8, 2008.
Link here for more information and the nomination form
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Teleconference
An CAPC audio conference, co-sponsored by HPNA will be held on July 31, 2008 and is entitled: “APN Billing.” This event will be presented from 1:30 – 2:30 pm EST by Constance Dahlin, APRN, BC, PCM, who is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital. There is a fee for this teleconference.
Link here for more information and to register online
Link to HPNA Monthly Update
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National
Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses
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HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ADMINISTRATOR EXAM
The NBCHPN Hospice and Palliative Care Administrator Examination is now available for the September 2008 testing window. Eligibility requirements, exam overview, Role Delineation Study information, etc. is available on our website,
www.nbchpn.org under the ADMIN tab regarding our Administrator exam. The Candidate Handbook is updated to include the Administrator certification exam and is available on our website. Applications are now being accepted for all NBCHPN examinations for September 2008.
Link to NBCHPN Monthly Update
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Hospice
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Two Funding Announcements from HPNF!
• The HPNF Certification Research Grant is funded up to $15,000 for 2008!
• New HPNF Conference Scholarships are available. Awards of $200 are available for conferences sponsored by HPNA (like Clinical Practice Forum and Annual Assembly).
Deadline for applications is June 1. More Information
HPNF Cell Phone Recycling is back!
Need a Summer Fling? Fling those unwanted cell phones into your suitcase when you travel to Pittsburgh for Leadership Weekend, July 19-20 or Clinical Practice Forum, September 5-6.
• Collect unwanted phones and power cords
• Phones will be safely recycled and funds raised will go to HPNF!
• For more information, contact Laura Ristau at laurar@hpna.org
The Power of Ten!
• Ten years young
• Ten fingers on caring hands
• Ten times any dollar amount
Ten is the 2008 HPNF theme number. We are hoping to reach a significant goal. What is the goal? 10% of HPNA members to be HPNF donors in 2008!
How many is that? 920 How many do we have? 139
Why? To improve products, services, grants and scholarships to HPNA members.
How can you help? Send a contribution of $100, $50 or any multiple of $10
Mail: Find donation link on the Website or use the April appeal letter
Phone: 412-787-9301
Online: Donate Now Link Be sure to indicate you are responding to the Annual Member Appeal
All gifts regardless of their size are significant to the work we do. The more people who give, the greater the power. Tap in to the Power of Ten: Pass it on!
If you are one of the 139 who have already contributed: Thank You
Key To Your Heart – Decorative Gift Cases with hearts, butterflies, pretty colors, and a touching story may be ordered by phone, online or through the mail. Find details for Key to Your Heart on the HPNF Website.
Click here to make a donation to HPNF
Link to HPNF homepage
NCP Quality in Palliative Care Award
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP) announced the inauguration of the NCP Quality in Palliative Care Award, a program designed to recognize organizations performing superior work incorporating the NCP’s
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care
(http://www.nationalconsensusproject.org) into their palliative care services.
Application deadline is September 1,
2008. For more information contact Ken Zuroski by email at
kenz@hpna.org or phone 412-787-1002.
Link for further information
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YOU MOVED?
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you are not receiving the publications included with your
membership, please contact us.
The mailing lists for Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, the HPNA Nursing
Assistant Newsletter, etc. are all prepared from our database at
the National Office.
The journals are sent second class mail and are not
forwarded.
Please keep us informed of your address changes so that
you receive full benefit of your membership.
The Members Only area of the HPNA website has been
enhanced to permit current members to edit personal contact
information: address, phone number, email address etc.
Change your contact information at Member
Login or call us at 412-787-9301.
Thank you.
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