Educator and Speaker
Educator/Speaker with CME, CEUs available
Nancy presents teleconferences, webinars and workshops locally, statewide and nationally. She is known for her enthusiasm and passion for palliative care. She is an expert in assisting healthcare professionals: physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, with skills to assist those patients facing serious illness and end of life in areas that matter most:
Comfort, Communication, Choices and Control
Hot Topics Include:
- What is Palliative Care
- When is it time for Hospice
- Hard Choices for Loving People
- Caregiving and Coping with Terminal Illness
- Pain Across Serious Illness
- Grief and Bereavement
- How to manage pain and symptoms for those who are seriously ill or frail
- DNR versus CPR
- Artificial hydration and Nutrition in terminal illness
- Ethical considerations in Palliative Conversations
- Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
- Advance Care planning across the continuum of illness
- Palliative Resources for Patients and Families
Useful Resources for Healthcare Professionals
- All Things Palliative Blog
- Adult Cancer Pain-National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guideline – Requires email account but is free
- Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
- End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC) Fast Facts
- Get Palliative Care – for Clinicians
- Guide to Pain Management in Low Resource Settings (International Association for the Study of Pain)
- Palliative Care- NCCN guideline – Requires email account to access but is free
- Overview of Comprehensive Patient Assessment in Palliative Care (Up to Date, 2013)
- Palliative Care Issues Specific to Geriatric Patients (Up To Date, 2013)
- Palliative Care in An Acute Setting (Medscape article, 2013)
- Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)