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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION |
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Working in Partnership |
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Spiritual Care and the End of Life:
Beyond Bedside Prayers |
Family Hospice and Palliative Care, in partnership with UPMC Senior Communities, presents an educational opportunity for health care professionals who want to utilize better spiritual care as a resource for patients and families.
The program is scheduled for March 11th, from 5 pm to 8 pm at UPMC Canterbury Place, in Lawrenceville.
The program is offered at no charge and includes two free CEUs for nursing and social work.
To register, please call 412-231-3103.
Click here for more information.
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Living with Grief®:
Cancer and End-of-Life Care |
The Institute to Enhance Palliative Care presents the Hospice Foundation of America’s 17th annual National Bereavement Teleconference on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at The Center for Compassionate Care, 50 Moffett Street, Mt. Lebanon.
The teleconference will address care options related to cancer
diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients,
families and professional caregivers. The program will also
examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and
ethical issues related to the disease.
The program is free of charge and open to the public.
Continuing education contact hours (CEUs) will be available for nurses, social workers, clergy, counselors, funeral directors, psychologists, physicians, EAPs and nursing home administrators. Cost to secure CEUs is $25 (credit card) or $35 (check).
To reserve a place, call 412-572-8747.
Click here for more information.
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Hospice
Inpatient Experience for Clinicians |
- Ongoing, by appointment, at the Center for Compassionate Care.
- CMEs available for physicians, CRNPs, RNs, PAs, and other clinicians with an interest in hospice inpatient care.
Click here for more information.
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| The Institute to Enhance Palliative Care |
The Institute to Enhance Palliative Care is
a community of scholars and health professionals from diverse
fields who have joined together to improve care for the seriously
ill and dying. It is a unique collaboration between Family Hospice and Palliative Care and the University of Pittsburgh.
By combining the community-based, patient- and family-centered
philosophy of Family Hospice and Palliative Care with
the extensive research and educational resources of the University
of Pittsburgh, the Institute to Enhance Palliative Care will
be a regional and national resource such as now exists at only
a select group of academic institutions such as Duke University,
Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, and the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation. The Institute will meet its goals through work in
three areas:
Education
The Institute will have a primary goal of improving the training
of all types of health care providers to ensure they have sufficient
skills to manage the growing population of seriously ill and
dying patients.
Research
The research component of The Institute to Enhance Palliative
Care will strengthen and build upon existing health services
research at the University of Pittsburgh by focusing research
on palliative care, and other relevant areas. Partnership with Family Hospice and Palliative Care will enable the Institute to
extend its research to a broad community-based population far
more than is typical for most University-based health care researchers.
Community Service and Advocacy
The Institute will closely monitor local, state, and federal
policies that effect care for seriously ill and dying persons
and their families. The Institute will not be a lobbying entity,
but will work with policy makers to provide accurate information
to enable more informed decisions and policies at all levels.
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here to visit the Institute's web site |
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| Leadership Council on Long-Term Care |
| The Leadership Council on Long-Term Care
is an initiative created by a consortium of Western Pennsylvania
nursing facilities and the Institute to Enhance Palliative
Care. The Council is composed of long-term care providers committed
to increasing awareness and education and developing best practices
of care for people who are seriously ill and living in all
settings of long-term care. The mission of the Leadership Council
on Long-Term Care is to establish best practices in palliative
and end-of-life care in the long-term care setting. The Council
issued Fact Sheets explaining to health care professionals
and patient/families the benefits of hospice and palliative
care in the long-term care setting. The Fact Sheets are free
and available at www.dgim.pitt.edu/iepc.
To receive copies of the Fact Sheets or for more information
please contact Maria Massucci at 412-651-2570 or Paige Hepple
at 412-802-6249. |
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| Center for Compassionate Care |
The Educational/Conference Wing of The Center for Compassionate Care will offer a variety of classes, seminars, and discussions for professionals who want to learn more about end-of-life issues. Classes such as:
- Introduction to Hospice Care and Palliative Care
- Common Symptoms and Medications at the End-of Life
- Difficult Conversations – Helping Patients and Families Prepare for Approaching Death
- Guidelines for Determining Appropriateness for Hospice and Palliative Care
- Children and Grief
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| Clinical Pastoral Education Program |
| Now entering its third year, Family Hospice
and Palliative Care’s Clinical Pastoral Education Program
(CPE), accredited by the College of Pastoral Supervision &
Psychotherapy (CPSP), remains unique to the area. The program
provides individuals involved in ministry or spiritual care
with a greater understanding of end-of-life issues. Interns
with the program partake in a full year of classroom work as
well as visiting with hospice patients and families. They approach
issues such as death and dying, examining their own feelings
about dying, and become comfortable with visiting a patient
at home. They develop an understanding of the integral part
the pastoral/spiritual team member plays on the hospice team
and in the care of the patient and family. For more information
about this program, please call Ed Pehanich, Spiritual Care
Counselor, at 412-651-2587 or e-mail Ed at epehanich@familyhospice.com |
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