American Academy of Nursing’s Raise the Voice Initiative to host a Critical Conversation: Best Practices in Advanced Care Planning
Two Panels will Discuss End of Life Planning Models that Work
In the fall of 2010, a task force of the Academy developed a policy brief on “Advance Care Planning as an Urgent Public Health Concern,” identifying four policy recommendations for ensuring that conversations about informed preferences are ongoing and the norm. It is through the Academy’s Raise the Voice initiative that a Critical Conversation entitled “Best Practices in Advanced Care Planning and Decision Making: Models that Work” will be held.
Through this Critical Conversation, the Academy’s Raise the Voice initiative will publicize the task force’s recommendations and how they require sensitive, but critical, public conversations regarding the need for advanced care planning and decision-making.
Co-sponsored by the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Archstone Foundation, this critical conversation will open with remarks by William Novelli, Distinguished Professor of Practice at Georgetown University and former CEO of AARP. Two dynamic panels featuring respected panelists from a variety of professional backgrounds will follow. Moderators Jackie Judd, from Kaiser Family Foundation, and Jordan Rau, from Kaiser Health News, will lead the panels.
Panelists include:
- Theresa Brown, New York Times blogger and oncology nurse
- Amy Berman, senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation
- Dr. Manoj Jain, a physician and ethicist in palliative care
- Cynda Rushton, Academy Fellow and Edge Runner, Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Program at the John Hopkins Children’s Center
- Suzanne Prevost, a geriatric nurse scholar at the University of Kentucky
- Kate O’Malley, Senior Program Officer at the California HealthCare Foundation
- Joseph Prevratil, President and CEO of the Archstone Foundation
When and Where: 9-11:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 7 at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C.
A live webcast will be online at http://mindmedia-live1.wm.llnwd.net/mindmedia_Live1. The link will be live starting at 8:50 am on Oct. 7 and will use Windows Media Player. Mac users should download and install Flip4Mac, a plugin that allows Quicktime to play Windows Media content. It can be downloaded for free at: http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.htm.
Additionally, a video of the Critical Conversation will be available online at www.AANnet.org/raisethevoice within a few weeks.
For more information about the event, or to request an invitation or press pass, please contact Kat Piscatelli at kat_piscatelli@AANnet.org.