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Educational Workshop Schedule Educational Workshop Schedule

THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019

SESSION 3 – 2:45 PM–4:15 PM 3C The Long Death: Travelling the Long
and Winding Road
3A Deanna Deeter, CRPN, Penn State Children’s Hospital
Staying Compliant With the Hospice
Regulations and What New
Regulations Can Hospice Expect Hummingbird Program Manager; Michelle Freeman,
MD, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine,
Judy L. Connelly, RN, MSN, SPHR, Executive Director, Medical Director, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Good Samaritan Hospice of Pittsburgh; Susan Smith, Palliative Care Program; Nicole Hahnlen, RN, Penn
MSN, CHPN, Hospice Manager, Geisinger Home State Children’s Hospital Hummingbird Program
Health and Hospice and Jeannie Vogt, RN, MSN, Coordinator and Megan Youtz, LPC, Penn State
MBA, CHPN, Lehigh Valley Hospice Clinical Director Children’s Hospital Hummingbird Program Clinical

This panel discussion will present best practices on how to Counselor
stay compliant with the hospice regulations and prepare
for implementation of future regulations. This will be an Pediatric decline and death can occur slowly over
interactive session, please come prepared to share your several months, which often makes for a bewildering
best practices and leave with new ideas to implement now and emotional road for the many healthcare teams who
and prepare for the future. Providers are encouraged to have come to know and care for a child over time. This
bring you medical marijuana policies to discuss and share presentation describes the course of a long death, the
best practices. building of an effective palliative care plan that is effective
across various community settings, and the ways in which
Learning Objectives: Discuss best practices to stay in healthcare teams can support each other through this
compliance with the Hospice Conditions of Participation. journey.
Identify processes to implement new regulations. Learning Objectives: Discuss ways in which pediatric
3B Encountering Opioid Use Disorder prognostication helps us to anticipate and plan for the long
death. Identify important aspects of building a palliative
care plan that is effective across a variety of community
in the Seriously Ill Patient:
Determining Best Practice for the settings. Build awareness of your own emotions as a
Palliative Care Provider healthcare provider and the impact those emotions have on
patient and family care.
Molly Hanson, MSN, CRNP, Palliative Care Nurse
Practitioner, Neu Center for Supportive Medicine and 3D Narratives and Grief
Cancer Survivorship,Thomas Jefferson University
Over the past decade, the opioid epidemic has impacted Jane Williams, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
health care throughout the nation. However, opioids (Retired), Wake Forest University Medical School
remain an important tool in relieving suffering for patients The session will focus on the development of grief
with serious illness. This presentation will explore our narratives, unique stories that assist with the acceptance
experience encountering substance use disorder in the of death and accommodation of loss. The influence of
palliative care clinic at Thomas Jefferson University. I will culture, individual traits, and circumstances of the death
provide an overview of the problem, discuss challenges on the development of the stories will be discussed. The
with our population, and offer insights from our experience. presentation will include the reading of a transformative
The session will then open up for facilitated discussion.
grief narrative and techniques for re-authoring stores.
Learning Objectives: Participants will understand scope Learning Objectives: Describe the development of grief
of opioid crisis and be able to define/identify opioid use narratives. Describe how narratives can be transformative
disorder (OUD). Participants will be able to discuss the in grief. List techniques that may re-author grief narratives.
unique challenges encountering OUD in patients with
serious illness.

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