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Author: JCairns
Date: Jul 11, 2011 12:04 pm
PC Liaison Position
Our program is undergoing some major transition due to the opening of an inpatient hospice facility in our organization. We already have an inpatient palliative care unit. I have proposed to hire a palliative care liaison (hopice provides a hospice liaison) in an attempt to “upstream” our PC patients and further develop our program. My proposal is that this RN will collaborate within the ICU, ED, stepdowns etc and develop triggers for appropriate referrals as well as provide staff education. Since our consultation team currently falls under our hospice program, I do not want this liaison to report to the consult team but to our PC program manager. Does anyone else have a position like this and what is the reporting structure?
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Re:PC Liaison position (by DebNicholson on 07/11/2011)
Hello,

I would ask who the program manager reports to, perhaps this person could be under that umbrella.
We do not have inpatient units and are really in the beginnings of growing our program but we have an RN (myself) who currently reports to Case Management. There is good support from the CM Director that helps me to be able to trigger for referrals and do education in and out of house. If reporting to PC managers supervisor would not work maybe there is a way to develop, under your current system, a clearly defined role and reporting structure. Other models taht CAPC told us of in our training was Pastoral Care or Nursing. It will depend on the culture of your institution. Hope this helps.

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