Pain & Symptom Management Palliative Care

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - Stanley Park Ballroom - Salon 2

The BC Cancer Agency’s Pain and Symptom Management/Palliative Care Teams invite you to join us for our annual Professional Education Day. Strengthen your supportive/palliative care skills and knowledge, and learn about new provincial initiatives in advance care planning to enhance cancer care for your patients and their families.

The Pain and Symptom Management Professional Day is part of the BC Cancer Agency’s Annual Cancer Conference also being held at the Westin Bayshore, December 1-3, 2011. The theme for the day is Improving Supportive Care through Partnerships in keeping with the conference theme of Improving Cancer Care through Partnerships.

Learning Objectives

Describe the Practice Support Program's End of Life Module
Identify what's new in Supportive Care
Discuss Advance Care Planning
Review how to have the conversation about end of life
Recognize and cope with compassion fatigue

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Time	Topic	Speakers
07:55 - 9:00	Light Breakfast - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
09:30 - 09:40	Welcome	Pippa Hawley
09:40 - 10:40	Practice Support Program: End of life module community healthcare and resource directory	Catherine Clelland
10:40 - 11:00	Refreshment Break - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
11:00 - 11:45	Management of Malignant Ascites: A case study in building collaboration across programs	Elizabeth Beddard-Huber Doris Barwich
11:45 - 12:45	Advance Care Planning	Pat Porterfield Cari Hoffmann
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
13:45 - 14:45	Partnering with Nutrition Oncology: Walking on Egg Shells: The who and the how of having THE conversation	Facilitator: Ryna Levy-Milne Pat Porterfield Cari Hoffmann Michael McKenzie Douglas McGregor Judith Pike Andrea Fimrite Karen Levy
14:45 - 15:45	Partnering with Nutrition Oncology Conscious Care Giving: Understanding, preventing and reducing compassion fatigue	Stacy Sprague
15:45 - 16:05	Refreshment Break - Bayshore Ballroom Salon ABC
16:05 - 17:05	What's New in Pain Medication?	Catriona Aparicio
17:05 - 17:30	Evaluations & Closing Remarks	Pippa Hawley