Impact: Palliative Care Communication Workshop

Dates:

• December 4, 2024
• March 5, 2025

Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Format: In-person course
Location: Facilities Support Services Building, Room 2030
Code: DAHS-NGNIPCCW23-ACE
Capacity: 3
Waiting list: Yes
CE: 6.5

CE credit

UC Davis Heath - Center for Professional Practice of Nursing, provider #1866, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/20/2024 – 5/20/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6.5 total continuing education credits.

CE certificate

CE certificate will be issued within 30 days after course. CE certificate will be available for download in UC Learning Center for UC Davis Health employees and sent by e-mail to community registrants.

Course completion requirements

C.E. credit will not be awarded for this program session if the participant does not attend the course in full.

For an in-person event, participant must sign in on official roster, be present for the entire course, and complete an evaluation and attestation of attendance. Participant must sign attestation of participation in activity for all live, synchronous activities no later than the end of the day that the activity was offered (for a multi-day course, attestation must be turned in each day).

Course description

This interactive workshop is designed to provide training for health-care professionals to discuss prognosis and goals of care with patients, families, and medical team members. The course utilizes didactic, group discussion, and role play to give participants tools for critical conversations that occur around serious illness. The workshop was developed at the request of ICU nurses under the auspices of a University of California grant and, after the pilot program, the course is now available for all professionals in all patient care settings. There are no prerequisites or attire requirements.

Target audience 

All health-care providers who want to discuss prognosis and goals of care with patients, families, and medical team members.

Learning objectives

• Describe at least one ethical and/or professional responsibility of health-care providers to families.
• Describe at least one way how health care providers can facilitate communication about prognosis and goals of care among families and providers.
• Discuss at least one way how unintended or implicit bias can contribute to communicating with patients, families, and physicians about prognosis and goals of care.
• Discuss how role play provides real world application of learner directed acquisition of skills for critical conversations.
• Describe a roadmap for eliciting family understanding of prognosis and goals of care.
• Detail at least two core communication skills used to accomplish this a goals of care discussion.
• Demonstrate use of the road map and at least two skills to communicate with a family member about prognosis and goals of care.
• Describe a roadmap for collaborative patient care.
• Detail at least two skills that encourage collaborative negotiation.
• Demonstrate use at least two skills to encourage collaborative negotiation and a physician’s attendance at family meeting.
• Describe the recommended structure of a family meeting.
• Detail at least two communication skills for providing emotional support and ensuring that family informational needs are addressed.
• Demonstrate at least two communication skills to help ensure that family informational and emotional needs are addressed in a multidisciplinary family meeting.
• Examine hidden costs of caring for the palliative care population.
• Reflect on at least one personal experience with palliative care.
• Describe at least two protective practices to address and prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Discuss at least one communication skill that the participant will apply to their professional practice.

Instructor bios

• Karen Brand, P.N.P., D.N.P. is a Pediatric Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at UC Davis. Karen has been a pediatric nurse for 30 years with much experience in palliative care. Karen now specializes in helping patients and family with improved quality of life and care goals for children.
• Misty Cahoon, M.S.N., R.N., N.P.D.-B.C. has 16+ years of nursing experience, including 7+ years working in Nursing Professional Development. Misty has been a, End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) trained instructor and has been coordinating and facilitating ELNEC since 2019.
• Janice Curtin, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., A.C.H.P.-S.W., is an inpatient Palliative Social Worker at UC Davis, previously at Marshall Medical Center, and has been an Impact instructor since 2021.
• Valerie Froman, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is a Palliative Care Social Worker at UC Davis, with over 12 years of experience in palliative care and 28 years of experience in hospital and clinical settings.
• Christine Haider-Winnett is a Board-Certified Chaplain serving Palliative Care and Inpatient Hospice at UC Davis Medical Center. She holds a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion, a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College, and a Certificate in Women’s Studies in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union. She completed her CPE (chaplaincy) residency at John Muir Medical Center, Concord. Christine lives in Davis with her husband and two young children.
• Caitlin Martinsen, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., A.P.H.S.W.-C. is an inpatient Palliative Care Social Worker. Prior to this role, Caitlin worked as a home-based Hospice and Palliative Care Social Worker.
• Monica Miller, M.S., R.N., C.C.R.N., has been a critical care nurse for 19 years, is an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) trainer, and currently serves on the Bioethics and Schwartz Rounds Planning Committees. Monica’s thesis work involved exploring critical care nurses’ understanding of palliative care in the ICU setting. Monica has been facilitating the Impact class since taking the first course offered at UC Davis. Monica also facilitates the Reigniting the Spirit of Caring and See Me as a Peron courses.
• Megan Nolan, M.S., B.S.N., R.N., C.C.R.N., has over 15 years of registered nursing experience, with focus in critical care and oncology. Megan is currently a clinical nurse in the UC Davis critical care float pool. Megan completed an oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist master’s degree from UCSF in 2012. Megan is passionate about palliative care, feeling that the Impact course is especially meaningful in empowering bedside nurses and healthcare providers to play a central role in palliative care conversations.
• Ashley Vieira, M.S., R.N., C.C.R.N.-K., N.P.D.-B.C. has been a Registered Nurse since 2009 with experience in adult critical care. Ashely’s Master’s thesis focused on barriers to palliative care within the hospital. She has been an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) trained instructor since 2019 and has been coordinating and facilitating IMPACT since 2019.
• Bradley Waples, R.N., M.S.N., C.N.L. is an Inpatient Hospice Nurse at UC Davis for the past two years. Prior to his current role, Bradley worked as a bedside RN for 5 years. Bradley specializes in collaborating with families, patients, and the health care team to optimize experience and quality of end-of-life. 
• Kimberly Young, L.C.S.W., M.S.W. is a licensed clinical social worker for UC Davis Health. She received her Master's in social work 15 years ago and is currently working as an advanced care planning social worker within the department of palliative care.
• Laura King, M.Div is a hospital chaplain with UC Davis. She holds a Master of Divinity and six units of training in clinical pastoral education. She is experienced in palliative and hospital care.
• Amy Warner, R.N., B.S.N., C.C.R.N., C.H.P.N. is an Inpatient Hospice Nurse at UC Davis for the past three years. Prior to her current role, Amy spent 4 years in Trauma-Surgical Critical Care. Amy's expertise is providing compassionate, patient-centered care at end of life for hospice patients and their families.

Agenda

• Agenda (PDF)

References

Available in class and by request.

Registration deadline

Registration deposit or fee must be received by 4:30 p.m. on the last business day before the class.

UC Davis Health employees

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$25 registration deposit. Registration deposit is returned upon completion of class. Cancellation must be requested five days prior to class date to receive deposit refund. Please register through UC Learning Center and call our office at 916-734-9790 with your deposit by credit card.

Registrations are approved only after your deposit is provided.

Community registrants

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$63 registration fee. Cancellation must be requested five days prior to class date to receive a full refund. A $25 service fee will be charged after this date.

Contact us

For questions on registration and general information: 

• 916-734-9790
• hs-cppn@ucdavis.edu

Individuals needing special accommodations may call the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing at 916-734-9790.

Parking is available in parking structure 4, lots 12, 17, 22, 22 Auxiliary, 30, 30 Auxiliary, Broadway, EDD, and DOJ with either a B permit or daily permit. Daily permits are available for purchase with the ParkMobile app using zone number 42201 or at a parking kiosk. Please visit Parking and Transportation Services for more information.

Ashley Vieira, M.S., R.N., N.P.D.A.-B.C., C.C.R.N.
Professional Development Specialist
afvieira@ucdavis.edu