LIFEline December, 2001
(Living Initiatives For End-of-Life Care)
· The LIFE Project has distributed 15,000 copies of Issue #2 of A Design for Change, and a second printing has just arrived at the Project office. The newsletter is ideal for distribution to Kansas consumers interested in completing an advance directive. If your organization would like additional copies of the publication, please contact June Miller at the Project office: (316) 263-6380 or by email: june@lifeproject.org.
· Just added to the website: "Consumer's Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning." This complete guide, created by the American Bar Association, contains a variety of self-help worksheets, suggestions, and resources. There are 10 Tools in all, each clearly labeled and user-friendly. To download the Tool Kit go to www.lifeproject.org/_cr_abatoolkit.htm.
· A new video being promoted Last Acts focuses on the role of nursing staff at the end of life. “Caring at the End of Life” emphasizes the key roles of nursing staff in patient care and communication. It profiles six severely ill patients, revealing that their stories offer no easy answers but do raise many of the very issues faced by patients and those who care for them. Purchasing information is available on the Last Acts website: http://www.lastacts.org/scripts/la_res01.exe?FNC=view_detail2__Asearchresults_htm___4785___101 or call Sandy St. Louis, Fanlight Productions, at 1-800-937-4113.
UPCOMING EVENTS: For a complete listing of upcoming seminars, conferences and courses being offered on end-of-life or related issues, please visit our website at www.lifeproject.org/_news_calendar.htm.
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Feb. 21-23 The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) will host its first 2002 training session, “Planning a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program” in Tampa, Florida. To learn more about this educational opportunity, please call (212) 241-9090.
April 19-20 L Newman Regional Health and the Kansas State Nurses Association will jointly sponsor an ELNEC (End-of-Life Nurses Education Consortium) “Train-the-Trainer” course. Advance registration is $70 for the course (10 CE’s provided). Please contact Cathy Pimple at ESU for additional information: 620-343-6800, ext. 5648.
* If you have any announcements to add to our calendar, please forward them to Stacie Ogborn by the 10th of the month: LIFE Project, 1901 University, Wichita, KS 67212, Fax # (316) 263-6542, or submit them by email to: stacie@lifeproject.org.