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May 2007 In
June 2003, discussions began with representatives of HPNA,
NBCHPN and HPNF, and a consultant to discuss how we could
collectively move forward to have a greater impact on
communicating the value of providing excellent nursing care at
the end of life for all Americans. Our unified vision is
to ensure that all persons become aware of the impact of those
with hospice and palliative nursing care knowledge and expertise
and their ability to deliver high-quality end-of-life care.
The desire to achieve this purpose has lead to the formation of
the 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.
HPNA
Initiates Clinical Practice Forum Nursing
education is not standardized across the nation in terms of
hospice and palliative education.
Recognizing this fact, the HPNA Board of Directors has
recommended creating Clinical Practice Forums.
The first forum will be held at the Hilton Hotel
in The
Clinical Practice Forum: Managing Non-cancer Patients will
address Cardiac, Dementias, Pulmonary and Renal
care. Register now by clicking
on the link below. The
Pre-Conference on Friday, September 7, offers two events
providing up to 3.5 contact hours: a workshop on Navigating
Through Establishing/Updating Goal of Care
by Virginia Valentine, MS, RN, CHPN, which provides a discussion
of the new 2008 Conditions of Participation requiring stronger
documentation of the measurement of care delivery. In addition,
a workshop will be held on B.O.A.T.I.N.G: Before Offering
Another Treatment Identify New Goals,
which is a one-act educational play by Jill Bixby, NP, MA, BSN,
providing insight into the benefits and burdens of treatment at
the end of life. Jill
received the 2007 HPNA Innovation in End-of-Life Nursing Care
Award for this project. Link
to additional information and Registration Upcoming
weekly teleconferences
Must pre-register; call HPNA at 412-787-9301 Advanced Practice Nurse Legal
Issues of Pain Management in End-of-Life Care (Wed. June
6, 2007 12 noon ET) Clinical
Nursing
Dopamine
at the End-of-Life
(Wed. June 13, 2007 12
noon ET) Journal
Club "Expressions
of Nonabandonment
During the Intensive Care Unit Family Conference"
(Wed. May 16,
2007 3
pm ET) Nursing Assistant Foundations
for Cross-Cultural Caregiving (Wed.
May 23, 2007 3 pm ET) Congratulations
to our 24th HPNA Chapter! The
HPNA Board of Directors has awarded chapter charter status to
the HPNA Chapter of the Florida FunCoast.
Congratulations to the Chapter Executive Board led by
President, Bobbie Hoover; Vice-President, Coleen Summey;
Secretary, Elsie Hudome and Treasurer, Linda Neider and the
membership of our newest chapter on your accomplishment. Click
here
to see the full listing of our Chartered Chapters and
Provisional (forming) Groups. Notification
of Membership Expiration Beginning
with the July, 2007 renewals, notification regarding expiration
of the HPNA membership will change to the following: 1)
Written renewal
form will be sent only to those for whom we do not have an email
address on file. There
will be no follow-up mailing after the expiration date. 2)
An email
reminder with a link to the Members Only area of the HPNA
website will be sent to those for whom we do have an email
address. A back-up
plan is in place for those email addresses that may not accept
the notice.
Electronic
Certification Newsletter for 2007 NBCHPN®
is transmitting their Certification Newsletter electronically.
Please be sure that your email address remains current
with the NBCHPN® database to ensure that you receive
email notification as to when the newsletter will be posted on
our website for viewing. We do not want our certificants to miss
out on any exciting NBCHPN® news! If your email
address has changed please send your current email address to dawnz@hpna.org.
Registered
Nurse Self Assessment Exam Available on AMP Web
Site The
Registered Nurse Self Assessment Exam is a
practice tool to evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of a candidate who is interested in
the certification process.
The cost of the exam is $35.
For every test that is purchased a
portion of the cost will be donated to HPNF.
The exam is available to nurses on the
Applied Measurement Professionals web site, www.goamp.com.
Click
here to link to the Self Assessment Exam (SAE)
overview http://store.lxr.com/product.aspx?id=229 Key
to Your Heart Cases - A great gift idea for
Mothers, Fathers and Grads! Key
to Your Heart cases are available from the
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation for a
$20.00 donation. The gold and enamel cases
come with three distinct keys inside that
declare your friendship and love. The
cases are shipped to you in a satin-lined gift
box. Both the box and the heart case are
inscribed with the HPNF logo. View a photo
on the HPNF website, www.hpnf.org. Orders
may be placed online or by calling HPNF at
412-787-9301.
Shipping is included! Link to HPNF Homepage
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