- Email: [email protected]
Finding the Right Fit: How to Use the Evidence to Make a Great Hire (FR417)
Vol. 51 No. 2 February 2016
Schedule with Abstracts
research, we will go on to review some practical tips and approaches to exploring spiritual needs of these children. Skills reviewed will include approaches to being a spiritual generalist, partnering with other practitioners (such as chaplaincy and child life), and adapting tools such as FICA in an age- and developmentally-appropriate way to screen for spiritual distress and to evaluate needs. We will also introduce several examples of situations where generalists might encounter challenges surrounding evaluation of spiritual needs of children facing life-threatening illness, along with discussion and suggestions as to how such situations might be safely navigated. Participants should emerge with a basic understanding of spiritual needs of children facing life-threatening illness, a grasp of what it means to be a spiritual generalist, and some basic tools for evaluation.
Speed Dating with Pharmacists: The Pharmacy Ladies Ride Again! (FR416) Kathryn Walker, PharmD CPE, Medstar Health, Baltimore, MD. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD BCPS CPE, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD. Objectives Discuss 3 pearls related to pharmacology of palliative medications. Discuss 3 pearls related to appropriateness of maintenance medications in EOL care. Discuss 3 pearls related to using palliative medications in a safe and effective manner. After ‘‘meeting’’ in 2012, a bond has formed and new tips are on the way for Round Four. Complex medication decisions are an integral part of treating palliative care patients. Pharmacists have a unique perspective on using these medications creatively and effectively. This 1-hour session will flirt with tips and tricks on using medications appropriately for patients facing advanced diseases. Whether debriding a medication profile, aggressively treating symptoms, or strategizing a dosage formulation, it can be hard to commit to medication decisions. Two pharmacists will speed-date their way through medication tips designed to highlight important and little known medication facts that are important in palliative medicine. Topics to be covered include determining appropriate maintenance medications, side effects such as hypogonadism with opioids, alternate administration of oral medications, using topical products, tips for maximizing dosing of patches, buccal vs transmucosal administration,
351
medications that you can crush vs dissolve, and more! Finding a tip you are compatible with just may change your life.
Finding the Right Fit: How to Use the Evidence to Make a Great Hire (FR417) Juliet Jacobsen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA. Lori Earnshaw, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. Jane deLima Thomas, MD FAAHPM, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. Objectives Identify challenges specific to hiring in palliative care. Reflect on how programs can prepare themselves to make a good hire by clearly defining their mission and strengths. Explore strategies for screening and interviewing candidates such as the use of behavioral interviewing techniques and personality tests. Hiring the right person, whether social worker, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician, is a highstakes task in palliative care. This interactive session begins by exploring challenges specific to hiring in palliative care, such as the need to screen for candidates who can process complicated emotional stressors, manage counter-transference, and work well in teams. We will then focus on strategies for making a good hire. First, we will teach how programs can reflect on their mission, vision, strengths, and needs to create a shared mental model of the right candidate and use this model to screen and recruit applicants. Second, we will discuss and practice how to use behavioral interviewing techniques to learn more about how the candidate’s job performance can be gauged during the interview. Finally, we will discuss the use of personality tests as an additional source of information in the hiring process.
‘‘Bas Sona’’: Healing Versus Sedating Using a Celtic Framework for Total Pain (FR418) Kevin Dieter, MD FAAHPM, Summa Health System, Canton, OH. Cheryl Waitkevich, MN FNP-BC, Providence St Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA. K.J. Williams, MD, Visiting Physician Associates, Madison, WI. Rachel Berry, BSN RN, Stein Hospice Service, Inc, Sandusky, OH. Objectives Discuss the importance of addressing emotional and spiritual needs as an essential components of pain and symptom management.
Schedule with Abstracts
research, we will go on to review some practical tips and approaches to exploring spiritual needs of these children. Skills reviewed will include approaches to being a spiritual generalist, partnering with other practitioners (such as chaplaincy and child life), and adapting tools such as FICA in an age- and developmentally-appropriate way to screen for spiritual distress and to evaluate needs. We will also introduce several examples of situations where generalists might encounter challenges surrounding evaluation of spiritual needs of children facing life-threatening illness, along with discussion and suggestions as to how such situations might be safely navigated. Participants should emerge with a basic understanding of spiritual needs of children facing life-threatening illness, a grasp of what it means to be a spiritual generalist, and some basic tools for evaluation.
Speed Dating with Pharmacists: The Pharmacy Ladies Ride Again! (FR416) Kathryn Walker, PharmD CPE, Medstar Health, Baltimore, MD. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD BCPS CPE, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD. Objectives Discuss 3 pearls related to pharmacology of palliative medications. Discuss 3 pearls related to appropriateness of maintenance medications in EOL care. Discuss 3 pearls related to using palliative medications in a safe and effective manner. After ‘‘meeting’’ in 2012, a bond has formed and new tips are on the way for Round Four. Complex medication decisions are an integral part of treating palliative care patients. Pharmacists have a unique perspective on using these medications creatively and effectively. This 1-hour session will flirt with tips and tricks on using medications appropriately for patients facing advanced diseases. Whether debriding a medication profile, aggressively treating symptoms, or strategizing a dosage formulation, it can be hard to commit to medication decisions. Two pharmacists will speed-date their way through medication tips designed to highlight important and little known medication facts that are important in palliative medicine. Topics to be covered include determining appropriate maintenance medications, side effects such as hypogonadism with opioids, alternate administration of oral medications, using topical products, tips for maximizing dosing of patches, buccal vs transmucosal administration,
351
medications that you can crush vs dissolve, and more! Finding a tip you are compatible with just may change your life.
Finding the Right Fit: How to Use the Evidence to Make a Great Hire (FR417) Juliet Jacobsen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, Boston, MA. Lori Earnshaw, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. Jane deLima Thomas, MD FAAHPM, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. Objectives Identify challenges specific to hiring in palliative care. Reflect on how programs can prepare themselves to make a good hire by clearly defining their mission and strengths. Explore strategies for screening and interviewing candidates such as the use of behavioral interviewing techniques and personality tests. Hiring the right person, whether social worker, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician, is a highstakes task in palliative care. This interactive session begins by exploring challenges specific to hiring in palliative care, such as the need to screen for candidates who can process complicated emotional stressors, manage counter-transference, and work well in teams. We will then focus on strategies for making a good hire. First, we will teach how programs can reflect on their mission, vision, strengths, and needs to create a shared mental model of the right candidate and use this model to screen and recruit applicants. Second, we will discuss and practice how to use behavioral interviewing techniques to learn more about how the candidate’s job performance can be gauged during the interview. Finally, we will discuss the use of personality tests as an additional source of information in the hiring process.
‘‘Bas Sona’’: Healing Versus Sedating Using a Celtic Framework for Total Pain (FR418) Kevin Dieter, MD FAAHPM, Summa Health System, Canton, OH. Cheryl Waitkevich, MN FNP-BC, Providence St Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA. K.J. Williams, MD, Visiting Physician Associates, Madison, WI. Rachel Berry, BSN RN, Stein Hospice Service, Inc, Sandusky, OH. Objectives Discuss the importance of addressing emotional and spiritual needs as an essential components of pain and symptom management.