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CHPN Certification Review: Registered Nurse (P07)
Vol. 51 No. 2 February 2016
Schedule with Abstracts
Utilize an evidence-based approach to medication prescribing process, including specifically how to discontinue medications for patients with serious illness. Integrate effective communication skills concerning medication management in patients with an advanced illness, with providers, patients, families and caregivers. Medications play a very large role in the management of chronic illnesses in advanced illness. The purpose of this all-day preconference is to wrestle with optimizing medication management in the most common advanced illnesses at the end of life including metabolic syndrome, heart failure, COPD, dementia, ALS and other disease states. Particular attention will be paid to medication-related issues in transitions of care between palliative care and hospice care, including medication and dosage formulation selection, therapeutic goal setting, monitoring and dosage titration aimed at optimizing symptom control.
8 ame5:30 pm ACHPN Certification Review: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (P06) Constance Dahlin, ANP-BC ACHPN FPCN FAAN, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, Pittsburgh, PA. Maureen Lynch, MS ANP-BC AOCH ACHPN FPCN FAAN, Dana Farber Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Kerstin Lappen, MS RN ACHPN FPCN, Minnesota Oncology, Minneapolis Clinic, Minneapolis, MN. Bronwyn Long, RN DNP MBA, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO. Objectives Provide participants with a framework to in which to prepare for Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing (ACHPNÒ)Examination Provide participants with a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content for the ACHPNÒ Examination The review course will provide a review of the content areas based on the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) detailed test content outline. This course may be used to increase the hospice and palliative advanced practice registered nurse’s knowledge of general palliative nursing or to assist the nurse in self-identifying topics that require further review and study in advance of sitting for the specialty certification examination. Attendees of this session will require the following materials: Core Curriculum for the Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Registered Nurse, 2nd edition (order online from the HPNA Shop) and the Hospice and Palliative
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Credentialing Center ACHPN Candidate Handbook (download and print for free at http://hpcc.advancin gexpertcare.org/competence/aprn-achpn/).
CHPN Certification Review: Registered Nurse (P07) Carma Erickson-Hurt, DNP ACHPN, South Coast Hospice, Coos Bay, OR. Bonnie Morgan, MEd RN-BC CHPN FPCN, IMS Oncology/Palliative Care Alliance, Mesa, AZ. Objectives Provide participants with a framework to in which to prepare for Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing (CHPNÒ)Examination Provide participants with a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content for the CHPNÒ Examination The review course will provide a review of the content areas based on the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) detailed test content outline. This course may be used to increase the hospice and palliative nurse’s knowledge of general palliative nursing or to assist the nurse in self-identifying topics that require further review and study in advance of sitting for the specialty certification examination. Attendees of this session will require the following materials: Core Curriculum for the Hospice and Palliative Registered Nurse, 4th edition (order online from the HPNA Shop) and the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center CHPN Candidate Handbook (download and print for free at http://hpcc. advancingexpertcare.org/competence/rn-chpn/).
8 ame11:45 am Pairing Palliative Care with Cutting-Edge Oncologic Care: Challenges and Opportunities (P08) Judith Nelson, MD JD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. James Tulsky, MD FACP FAAHPM, Duke University, Durham, NC. Betty Ferrell, PhD MA FAAN FPCN, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA. Colleen Mulkerin, MSW LCSW, Hartford Hospital, South Glastonbury, CT. Louis Voigt, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Stacy Stabler, MD PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Objectives List 4 specific challenges for successful integration of palliative care with oncologic care. Consider/incorporate 3 key factors in striking an appropriate balance between generalist and specialist palliative care.
Schedule with Abstracts
Utilize an evidence-based approach to medication prescribing process, including specifically how to discontinue medications for patients with serious illness. Integrate effective communication skills concerning medication management in patients with an advanced illness, with providers, patients, families and caregivers. Medications play a very large role in the management of chronic illnesses in advanced illness. The purpose of this all-day preconference is to wrestle with optimizing medication management in the most common advanced illnesses at the end of life including metabolic syndrome, heart failure, COPD, dementia, ALS and other disease states. Particular attention will be paid to medication-related issues in transitions of care between palliative care and hospice care, including medication and dosage formulation selection, therapeutic goal setting, monitoring and dosage titration aimed at optimizing symptom control.
8 ame5:30 pm ACHPN Certification Review: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (P06) Constance Dahlin, ANP-BC ACHPN FPCN FAAN, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, Pittsburgh, PA. Maureen Lynch, MS ANP-BC AOCH ACHPN FPCN FAAN, Dana Farber Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Kerstin Lappen, MS RN ACHPN FPCN, Minnesota Oncology, Minneapolis Clinic, Minneapolis, MN. Bronwyn Long, RN DNP MBA, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO. Objectives Provide participants with a framework to in which to prepare for Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing (ACHPNÒ)Examination Provide participants with a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content for the ACHPNÒ Examination The review course will provide a review of the content areas based on the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) detailed test content outline. This course may be used to increase the hospice and palliative advanced practice registered nurse’s knowledge of general palliative nursing or to assist the nurse in self-identifying topics that require further review and study in advance of sitting for the specialty certification examination. Attendees of this session will require the following materials: Core Curriculum for the Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Registered Nurse, 2nd edition (order online from the HPNA Shop) and the Hospice and Palliative
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Credentialing Center ACHPN Candidate Handbook (download and print for free at http://hpcc.advancin gexpertcare.org/competence/aprn-achpn/).
CHPN Certification Review: Registered Nurse (P07) Carma Erickson-Hurt, DNP ACHPN, South Coast Hospice, Coos Bay, OR. Bonnie Morgan, MEd RN-BC CHPN FPCN, IMS Oncology/Palliative Care Alliance, Mesa, AZ. Objectives Provide participants with a framework to in which to prepare for Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing (CHPNÒ)Examination Provide participants with a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content for the CHPNÒ Examination The review course will provide a review of the content areas based on the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) detailed test content outline. This course may be used to increase the hospice and palliative nurse’s knowledge of general palliative nursing or to assist the nurse in self-identifying topics that require further review and study in advance of sitting for the specialty certification examination. Attendees of this session will require the following materials: Core Curriculum for the Hospice and Palliative Registered Nurse, 4th edition (order online from the HPNA Shop) and the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center CHPN Candidate Handbook (download and print for free at http://hpcc. advancingexpertcare.org/competence/rn-chpn/).
8 ame11:45 am Pairing Palliative Care with Cutting-Edge Oncologic Care: Challenges and Opportunities (P08) Judith Nelson, MD JD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. James Tulsky, MD FACP FAAHPM, Duke University, Durham, NC. Betty Ferrell, PhD MA FAAN FPCN, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA. Colleen Mulkerin, MSW LCSW, Hartford Hospital, South Glastonbury, CT. Louis Voigt, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Stacy Stabler, MD PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Objectives List 4 specific challenges for successful integration of palliative care with oncologic care. Consider/incorporate 3 key factors in striking an appropriate balance between generalist and specialist palliative care.