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Palliative Care as a Priority for All Clinicians

Date:
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Time:
2 PM ET
Duration:
1 hour
 

As the population ages and the incidence of chronic disease continues to increase, the need for considerate, high quality palliative care is growing across all care settings.  Proper palliative care can improve the quality of life for patients as well as their families, yet education around this has only recently emerged as a key focus for clinicians.

During this webinar, Betty Ferrell (Director of Nursing Research & Education and Professor of City of Hope and Principal Investigator of ELNEC) will describe the role of all clinicians in providing palliative care and the training needed to do so.  

Learning objectives:

  • Learn about the current demands for palliative care as a component of quality patient care in serious illness.
  • Identify opportunities for all clinicians to deliver palliative care.

Betty Ferrell, Ph.D., RN, MA, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN

Director of Nursing Research & Education and Professor | City of Hope
Principal Investigator | ELNEC

Betty Ferrell has been in nursing for 44 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the Director of Nursing Research & Education and a Professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she has over 480 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is Principal Investigator of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and QOL issues. Dr. Ferrell was Co-Chairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Dr. Ferrell completed a Masters degree in Theology, Ethics, and Culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007. She has authored eleven books including the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (5th Edition, 2019) published by Oxford University Press. She is co-author of the text, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care (Templeton Press, 2010). In 2013 Dr. Ferrell was named one of the 30 Visionaries in the field by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2019 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2021 Dr. Ferrell received the Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award and she was inducted as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing.