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

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Nancy’s Publications

• Advance Care Planning-The Evolving Paradigm. Joyner, N. & May, S.: The Prairie Rose  84 (1): 7-9.  Retrieved March 2015, http://nursingald.com/uploads/publication/pdf/1139/ND2_15.pdf
• Difficult Choices: Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment. Joyner, N.: The Prairie Rose  80 (2): 7-10. Retrieved March 2015, http://nursingald.com/uploads/publication/pdf/203/ND5_11.pdf
• Pain Management in the Older Adult. Joyner, N.: The Prairie Rose 79 (3): 7-9.  Retrieved March 2015, http://nursingald.com/uploads/publication/pdf/490/ND8_10.pdf
• Palliative Care Issues. Joyner, N.: The Prairie Rose 79 (2):9-11.Retrieved March 2015, http://nursingald.com/uploads/publication/pdf/489/ND5_10.pdf
• The Pearls of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST): Translating Patient Decisions into Treatment Orders
• National POLST Paradigm Endorses North Dakota’s POLST Program
• Honoring Choices North Dakota Update: What Matters Most
• 2015 Advance Care Planning Part III The Role of the Nurse
• Advance Care Planning Part II Inception of Honoring Choices North Dakota®

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)