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Leadership and Team Dynamics


Number of threads on this Forum: 26
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Post Educational Resources for families YAP 1 05/17/2013
For institutions that utilizes levels to stratify patients at the end of life, does anyone provide patient/families any written educational information regarding the levels of resuscitative efforts that at offered? An eductional resource that they can use ...
Post Educational Resources for families YAP 1 05/17/2013
For institutions that utilizes levels to stratify patients at the end of life, does anyone provide patient/families any written educational information regarding the levels of resuscitative efforts that at offered? An eductional resource that they can use ...
Post The Palliative Care Committee lyfettig 2 04/16/2013
I came across this in the "Policies/Tools for Hospital PC Program- Crosswalk" document. http://www.capc.org/capc-resources/capc_publications/nqf-crosswalk.pdf I'm wondering the following: --How common is it for programs to have this committee? --Usefulne ...
Post Chaplain leading PC team John_Kingsley 3 03/10/2013
I am a second year CPE resident. I served on the PC Team at a hospital Birmingham Alabama last year. This year I am at a smaller sister hospital in a suburban area. I know there is interest in starting palliative care in this hospital and I want to bring ...
Post End Of Life Care Nursing Education Lgarcia2008 1 02/04/2013
Register today for the debut of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) course, April 4 & 5, 2013 in Anaheim, CA. A second ELNEC-APRN course will be held in Washington, DC on November 5 & 6, 2013. F ...
Post Assessment Tools sjcrump 2 12/31/2012
On behalf of Dr. Rodney Tucker and the CAPC Team Wellness Project: 1) What type of team health assessment tools are palliative care programs using? 2) Please share any resources or references that your team uses to "assess, diagnose, or treat" your team h ...
Post Hospital Mission, Vision and Goal statement Palcare007 2 02/01/2012
Hi, I am interested in forming a Palliative Care Committee in my hospital. Do you have a good Mission, Vision and Goal statement for Palliative Care that I could use? Thanks so much!
Post Legal question for staff support rounds npneuro 2 01/27/2012
I am starting a new rural hospital-based palliative care program. I would like to start regular staff support meetings, but one of the managers states we should not as the contents of the meeting are discoverable. I have never run into this issue before ...
Post ethics and dialysis hstuch 2 08/11/2011
At huge financial loss, our hospital has offered dialysis to a small population of uninsured patients, sometimes for many years. The current fiscal crisis has led to a decision to stop this service. Patients will be dialysed in the hospital as needed, wil ...
Post ethics and dialysis hstuch 4 08/30/2011
At huge financial loss, our hospital has offered dialysis to a small population of uninsured patients, sometimes for many years. The current fiscal crisis has led to a decision to stop this service. Patients will be dialysed in the hospital as needed, wil ...
Post RN Documentation/MD Documentation raquelrey 2 09/28/2011
I am the RN on our Palliative Care Team and will often consult independently from our MD. Most of the time the MD follows-up on consults I have done. One of our MDs uses my notes, addends them and for all practical purposes makes the note his own. He may ...
Post rounding maryg 2 03/18/2011
How often are the different members of the team expected to round on patients? I am getting different recomendation from differet sources.
Post Let Us Not Abandon Hope hzarren 2 02/24/2011
As our modern medical tools, including pharmaceuticals, biologicals and techniques, get more sophisticated and powerful, it seems that our faith in people’s inner healing abilities gets weaker. Examples are common in cancer care. People are told, often ...
Post Oncology Pharmacist Involvement Michelle_Hem_Onc_PharmD 2 08/11/2010
I did not see listings for how a pharmacist would get involved.....Are they not utilized in Palliative Care? I see it as a Cancer Center should be interacting with not only Pain Management Professionals but also Palliative Care...
Post Nurse Driven PC Sophia 3 09/28/2011
Our program is a 'nursing forward' or 'nursing driven' palliative care consult service model in a hospital setting. We have a .3 MD and would like to hear if anyone else is operating under such a model. Thank you, Sophia
Post Interdisciplinary team rounding sbryant111 2 05/18/2010
I am the chaplain for a hospital based palliative care team that includes a physician and a licensed mental health counselor. We are all full time. Our goal is to make initial assessment visits as a team to present a unified approach. With this initial ...
Post  Question for Audioconference held 12-10-09 rosea 2 12/11/2009
I was not able to ask Bill Mejia this question yesterday and hope he can answer today. Bill, your presentation indicated that your team initially had a nurse practitioner but the follow up slide showed your "Current Paradigm" with no nurse practitioner. H ...
Post AICD beachbum 4 01/07/2010
Does anyone have a hospital policy/procedure for turning off AICD's at end of life. Thanks
Post PC Team Wellness Akroos 4 12/31/2012
We are currently working on policies for our inpatient PC team. We have beeon focusing on self-care and wellness. Does anyone have any wellness or self care programs initiated at their facilities. Has anyone formed policies on this topic within their prog ...
Post mission/vision/values palcare24 3 08/06/2009
Has anyone developed a mission/vision/values statement for their palliative care program? If so were there any resources you found useful in developing the mission statement?
Post physician to physician consults Akroos 2 06/12/2009
Our palliative care program is very new and we have been having our RN see most patients. Our phayicians have been very comfortable with the palliative care RN's seeing their patients. We are wanting to restructure our program and begin to have our physic ...
Post scheduling family meetings frecka 2 08/22/2008
I am a community internist starting a palliative care service at a suburban hospital. It has been difficult thus far scheduling family meetings that don't conflict with my other appointments. Does anyone have suggestions about how to schedule these meetin ...
Post Burnout Weissman 1 06/14/2007
Greetings to all--to get this discussion going I want to ask about people's experiences with burnout-personally or in your team. I've had several minor and a few major episodes over the past 20 years--I find talking about it to be very therapeutic person ...
Post Job description for Director of Medical Services susanc 2 02/20/2008
Does anyone have a job description they would be willing to share for a Director of Medical Services? This would be for a physician leader in an organization that provides hospice and palliative care. Thanks.
Post x2 burnout and IDT development jmohs 3 06/23/2008
re: burnout, I have more questions than answers. I've noticed that appreciation is one of the key ingredients in preventing burnout and it can be surprisingly difficult to maintain. I think we have such high expectations of ourselves. Sometimes we take ...
Post Welcome Message PCaines 1 06/13/2007
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