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The latest HPCC newsletter is now available!

The 2024 Annual Assembly is only weeks away! If you are attending, we encourage you to participate in the many Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) focused events.

Congratulations to Community Hospice and Palliative Care, the winner of the Employer Partner Program (EPP) Quarter 1 contest!

Community Hospice and Palliative Care shows a clear commitment to and appreciation of their nursing assistants on staff. They stated: “Not including the nursing assistants working in our general inpatient centers, we have over 75 nursing assistants working in the home and long term care settings. As you can imagine, it was impossible to narrow down to just a single nomination.”

Christy Torkildson, Ph.D., RN, PHN, FPCN, HEC-C, has been appointed as the HPNA Liaison for the Pediatric Division of the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care (NCHPC).

HPNA member Kim Mooney-Doyle, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON), has been awarded a two-year R21 grant of $460,000. The grant, provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), will be used to research how understanding family communication during serious pediatric illness, from the perspective of adolescent siblings and parents, provides opportunities to prevent long-term distress.

The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) has published a Diversity in Health Care video series for hospice and palliative care professionals that explore fundamental considerations for end-of-life care of patients who identify as Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist.