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Asian Conference • Those of you from Asia who will be attending the Asian Conference and the ELNEC Summit, we would like to invite you to share your work of promoting palliative care in your country. This information will be available for everyone at the Asian Conference and ELNEC Summit. Below are instructions for how to develop your PowerPoint (ppt) slide. Please send in the following information on a ppt slide and we will format it (see attached template) • Name, credentials, workplace, city/country • Brief introduction • Describe palliative care in your organization/share a research study you are currently working on. • What are the challenges?/How are you overcoming those challenges? • What makes you laugh? • Send directly to Pam Malloy by May 15, 2015. • pmalloy@aacn.nche.edu
Susan K. Hall, MSN, RN, AOCNOncology Nurse, St. Joseph Hospital, Wichita, KS. • The State of Palliative Care in My Institution • For the past two years, we have worked to educate our physicians and nurses in palliative care. For the past two months, we have piloted palliative care on the oncology unit. At this point, about 50% of our oncologists see the value in palliative care. We have found that those patients receiving a palliative care consult have better symptom control and fewer days spent in the hospital. We are in the process now of gathering data and will present it at the next tumor board meeting and to our administrators. Every nurse working on the oncology unit has attended a 2-day ELNEC-Core course. • Challenges/Overcoming Challenges • #1: Lack of education of physicians and other team members: ELNEC course provided every 3 months. Palliative care team continues to offer services to all physicians. Nurses make rounds with the palliative care team each team. • What Makes Me Smile? • My children • Doing the best I can for my patients Introduction I am an oncology nurse educator, committed to providing safe and compassionate care to my patients and their families in our 26-bed cancer center..