Event Addresses Transitions in Care Issues

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (June 19, 2018)—The 2018 Virtual Conference, Turning Points: Mastering Transitions in Care, hosted by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association will be offered live via the Internet on July 18–19, 2018.

The virtual conference will feature:

• Live-streaming plenary speakers
• Webinar-based concurrent sessions
• Video library
• Unique opportunities for interaction
• CE/CME credit for nurses and physicians (during the live event only)
• Unlimited on-demand access for three months after the live event

Sessions will help professionals better navigate and facilitate turning points in care and will include hot topics that require a shift in assessment, intervention and even the direction of care. The jointly hosted Virtual Conference will include the voices of family members. Author Robin Romm, whose book The Mercy Papers chronicles her mother’s end-of-life care experience, will discuss her family’s experience with hospice and the ways that competing visions made for an experience that did not, as hospice providers like to attest, “meet families where they are” and “meet needs identified by the patient and family.”

Debbie Parker Oliver, whose husband David died in 2015, is a social worker and researcher at the University of Missouri. David faced his illness, treatment and death with great openness as he and Debbie sought to deprive death of its strangeness. Debbie will discuss the interactional suffering she encountered and how invisible she felt within the health care system as David’s illness progressed.

Through these and other sessions over two half-days, the conference will help hospice and palliative care professionals improve their care during “transitions”—the challenging times when providing excellent continuity, communication, continuing assessment and quality care are most critical, yet sometimes go awry.

Learn more and register for the 2018 Virtual Conference here.