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not related to the terminal illness determina-tions, helping the team develop individualizedcare plans incorporating patient goals, conduct-ing effective face-to-face encounters with pa-tients, writing cogent physician narratives, andmanaging changes in levels of care (especiallygeneral inpatient and continuous care), aresome of the regulatory requirements and chal-lenges explored in this workshop.

From Blogs to Boards: A CertificationMini-Prep Quiz Workshop (P20)Christian Sinclair, MD FAAHPM, Kansas CityHospice and Palliative Care, Kansas City, MO.Suzana Makowski, MD MMM FACP, Universityof Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,MA. Eric Widera, MD, University of CaliforniaeSan Francisco, Larkspur, CA. Drew Rosielle, MD,University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minne-apolis, MN.(All authors listed above for this session have dis-closed no relevant financial relationships.)Presented by Pallimed and GeriPalSponsored by AAHPM

Objectives1. Discuss how to confidently prepare for the

2012 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Boardsfrom the latest clinical evidence.

2. Assess recent literature on palliative caretopics for clinical relevancy.

3. Identify three methods to access quality up-to-date information in palliative care

During this 1/2 day workshop, editors and con-tributors for the palliative medicine blogs Pal-limed and GeriPal will challenge the audiencewith a content-rich and lively interactive quizand a discussion aimed to target key contentareas of the upcoming boards. The tenor ofthe session will be fast paced and lively butwith a focus on getting key content across fromthe most recent literature in the field from thepast 5 years. Audience participation will be en-couraged with the ability to answer questionsanonymously, which will also help spur discus-sions on questions where there is less certaintyamongst the participants.The workshop is not a substitute for other moreformal board review courses, especially given itsbrevity and quiz-based approach. Rather, its goalis to help participants who are preparing for theboards, especially those working through the ex-periential track, to assess their board-readinessand to review clinical pearls in palliative care.

� Pain and non-pain symptom management� Prognosis� Pediatric Palliative Care� Hospice and healthcare delivery� Psychosocial & spiritual aspects of palliativecare

� Ethics & professionalism� Communication

At the end of the workshop, the participants willbe given a handout with the questions, answers,and key discussion points. In addition, we will re-view options for further board preparation usingblogs, open access journals, PC-FACS, and otherAAHPM materials.

Blending Our Voices in Managing OncologyPatients (P21)Judy Lentz, MSN RN NHA, Hospice and Pallia-tive Nurses Association, Pittsburgh, PA. PaulaTrahan Rieger, MSN RN CAE FAAN, OncologyNursing Society, Pittsburgh, PA. Diane E. Meier,MD FACP FAAHPM, Mount Sinai School ofMedicine, Center to Advance Palliative Care,and Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg PalliativeCare Institute, New York, NY. Patrick J. Coyne,MSN APRN ACHPN� FAAN FPCN, VirginiaCommonwealth University Health Care Systems,Richmond, VA. Scott E. Lentz, MD, Kaiser Per-manente, Los Angeles, CA.(All authors listed above for this session have dis-closed no relevant financial relationships.)Sponsored by HPNA

Objectives1. Discuss the value of ‘‘blending different voi-

ces’’ in person-centered care.2. Name three ways to conceptualize team col-

laboration beyond interdisciplinary palliativecare on a clinical level such as political collab-oration; organizational collaboration; and fi-nally, specialization collaboration.

3. Articulate two major issues in the landscapeof healthcare reform and their impact onthe future of palliative care.

4. Interpret the impact of several seminal stud-ies, such as the IOM Futures of Nursing Reportand others, on quality, safety, and person-centered care.

5. Extrapolate the principles of ‘‘blended voi-ces’’ through an oncology/palliative carecomplex case study.

6. List two strategies to integrate fully informeddiscussions to achieve best person/family de-cision making outcomes into clinical care.