Please join us for an Elkhart County Estate Planning Council event, where we explore the myths and legends around the death experience, and find meaning in having important conversations, advance care planning, and the value of moving toward goal-concordant care.
The Estate Planning Council provides multi-disciplinary education, understanding, and cooperation among professionals who are involved in estate planning.
The event will start with registration and breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The program will be from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Our speaker is Dr. Lorie Hacker, an integration specialist, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and faith community nurse. She will discuss:
- Advanced Care Planning
- Explore the medical model and the dying experience
- Define goal-concordant care
- Identify the barriers to experiencing a good death
- Define Advance Care Planning and the Impact on the Death Experience
- Differentiate Hospice Vs. Palliative Care
- Explore Tools to Engage in Important Conversations
- Demystifying Death
- What is our hope for our final moments vs. What is the current reality?
- What is happening in hospitals across America?
- What is an ICU death like? What happens during a code blue?
- What is the Disconnect? What is Goal-Concordant Care?
- Barriers
- Health Care Provider Education & Communication, Fear of Litigation
- Family Fear & Myths, Blind Trust of the Healthcare System
- What can we do to move toward goal concordant care?
- Hospice vs. Palliative Care
- The Conversation Project
- Advance Care Planning
- Increase health care provider education and training
- Early Referrals to Palliative Care Programs
This event is free to Estate Planning Council members and $75 for non-members. Please register for this event by September 14, using the form below. You may join the Estate Planning Council for $100 annually (July-June), here and this event will be covered in this year’s membership. Non-members will be invoiced. You will receive a confirmation in your email after you register.
This event is approved for the following Continuing Education Credits:
Indiana Department of Insurance – 3.0 Long-Term Care
Indiana Commission on Continuing Legal Education – 3.0 NLS
American Bankers Association – 1.5 CTFA
Certified Financial Planning Board of Standards – 3.5
About our Speaker:
Dr. Lorie Hacker is a board-certified adult geriatric primary care nurse practitioner, and faith community nurse. She is passionate about whole person health, advance care planning and end of life care. She has been in the nursing profession for over 25 years working in multiple settings including palliative, and hospice medicine. She has facilitated the development of several outpatient palliative care programs in Indiana and Florida. She holds numerous degrees in nursing as well as a doctor of nursing practice degree from Touro University Nevada with a focus on leadership and advance care planning in faith communities.
She is an integration specialist nurse educator for ATI, serving nursing programs and faculty across the nation. She is an adjunct faculty for Marian University Leighton School of Nursing working with both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. She is a certified nurse educator with over 20 years of experience in nursing academia. She has developed both bereavement and loss courses and death café experiences and is an end-of-life nursing education consortium trainer. She is a nurse practitioner consultant, providing support for Main Street Hospice and Palliative Care and legal advance practice personal injury medical reviews. She is an author and speaker, presenting at the international, national, state, and regional level on topics of cultural humility, simulation, faith community nursing and advance care planning. She has presented at a number of conferences and symposiums. She and her husband Ed are Hoosier natives and split their time between Franklin, Indiana and central Florida.
Contact Kim Miller with any questions, [email protected] or by phone at (574) 295-8761.
Registration:
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