Sounds interesting, for those in Hospice: http://www.yankton.net/articles/2010...7341704094.txt

The Allied Health Department at Northeast Community College has scheduled a one-day nursing workshop to explore “Death, Dying and Diversity.”

The workshop, with course number ALHE 0210-06/10F, is set for 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in the Cox Activities Center on the Northeast campus in Norfolk. Organizers say this workshop will expand the knowledge of death and dying and teach participants to incorporate diversity and cultural competence in health care.

The day will open at 8 a.m. with a discussion on palliative care, pain control, the death and dying process, and the hospice interdisciplinary team by Dr. Julie Fletch, medical director of Asera Care Hospice and hospitalist at Faith Regional Health Service. The Rev. Jeffrey Warner, M.Div., Asera Care Hospice chaplain, will review the role of the chaplain in hospice and spirituality at 9 a.m.

Northeast Nursing Instructor Rhonda Pettitt, MSN, RN, GNP-BC, will review Simulating Sensory Impairment at 9:45 a.m. She will be followed at 10:15 a.m. by a presentation by Jan Matthews, social worker at Faith Regional Health Services, who will review the role of the social worker in hospice and how to provide psychosocial and economic support.

Marsha Rotherham, RN at Faith Regional, will wrap up the morning program with a presentation on Integrative Therapies in Hospice and Home Health. She will review the nurse’s role in hospice, comfort measures, case manager, family dynamics, and more in her presentation.

Following lunch on their own, participants will hear Maria Hines, MCP who has worked as a physician in Mexico and is the health program manager with the Nebraska Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity, will discuss culturally-competent healthcare. At 3 p.m., Kathy Nordby, health director of the Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department, will present on culturally and linguistically-appropriate services and diversity-current public health programs for minorities in the area.

The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on Diversity in Health Care Customs and Values.

Northeast is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by CNE-Net, the education division of the North Dakota Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This continuing nursing education activity is supported through unrestricted educational grants and exhibits.

For more information on how to obtain a registration form to send in with payments, contact Mary Marston, director of Allied Health at Northeast Community Colllege at (402) 844-7334.