The 13th Australian Palliative Care Conference 2015
 
Friday 4 September, 2015
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08:00 - 08:30Breakfast, Bacon and the Box Office - Early Session [More Info]
Trade Foyer
08:30 - 09:30Little Stars Film Presentation [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
08:30 - 09:30Breakfast, Bacon and the Box Office - Late Session [More Info]
Trade Foyer
09:30 - 09:50Plenary 11: The Little Stars Panel [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
09:50 - 10:15Plenary 12: Cheeky thoughts from the sandpit of paediatric palliative care [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Ms Sara Fleming, Nurse Practitioner , Women's and Children's Health Network
10:15 - 10:45Morning Tea
Trade Foyer
10:45 - 10:55What's new in the sector? [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
10:55 - 11:35Plenary 13: Palliative care and Dementia Care - A Good Fit? Current and Future Imperatives [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Professor Fran McInerney RN, BAppSci, MA, PhD, Professor of Dementia Studies and Education Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania
11:35 - 12:15Plenary 14: Developing National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Professor Colleen Doyle, Principal Research Fellow, National Ageing Research Institute
12:15 - 13:00Lunch
Trade Foyer
13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session D1 - Non Malignant Disease
Plenary Room 3
13:00 - 13:25D1.1 - Experiences and Attitudes of Palliative Care Nurses Caring for Patients with Chronic Disease [More Info]
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Mrs Debbie White, Nurse Practitioner, MNCLHD
13:25 - 13:50D1.2 - Patient outcomes in palliative care – a National perspective of malignant and non-malignant diseases [More Info]
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Professor Kathy Eagar, Director, Australian Health Services Research Institute, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong
13:50 - 14:15D1.3 - Experiences of people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) receiving the news of the diagnosis: a national survey. [More Info]
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Professor Samar Aoun, Professor of Palliative Care, Curtin University
14:15 - 14:30D1.4 - Palliative Care Management of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease [More Info]
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Mrs Danielle Bach, Palliative Care CNC, Eastern Health
13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session D2 - Collaboration
Meeting Room 220
13:00 - 13:25D2.1 - Formal and informal: can service providers and networks of care successfully collaborate in home care? [More Info]
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Dr John Rosenberg, Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
13:25 - 13:50D2.2 - Building a Blueprint for Improvement in NSW [More Info]
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Dr Rob Wilkins, Program Manager, Primary and Chronic Care, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
13:50 - 14:10D2.3 - Partners at the finishing line: a collaborative model of care for the future [More Info]
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Ms Jolanta Swierczynski, PEACH Program Manager, SWSLHD
14:10 - 14:30D2.4 - Partnering – The key to successfully supporting people to die at home or remain at home as long as possible in regional NSW. [More Info]
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Ms Kath Skinner, Director Palliative Services NSW, Silver Chain
13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session D3 - Workshops
Meeting Room 218
13:00 - 13:45D3.1 - Research to fit us for the future [More Info]
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Professor Joachim Cohen, Professor of the End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University
13:45 - 14:30D3.2 - Chronic Disease: The challenge of care and resource allocation for palliative care services [More Info]
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Dr Peter Allcroft, Staff Specialist, Southern Adeliade Palliative Care Daw Park RGH
13:00 - 14:40Concurrent Session D4 - Skills Development
Meeting Room 219
13:00 - 13:25D4.1 - Building delirium recognition and assessment practice in the palliative care inpatient setting: a mixed methods knowledge translation study [More Info]
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Ms Annmarie Hosie, PhD candidate, The University of Notre Dame Australia
13:25 - 13:50D4.2 - Where is the theory in theory meets practice? [More Info]
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Associate Professor Moira O'Connor, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
13:50 - 14:15D4.3 - Safety reporting in multi-site clinical trials in palliative care. [More Info]
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Ms Belinda Fazekas, National Project Officer, Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative, Flinders University
14:15 - 14:40D4.4 - Searching skills of palliative care clinicians [More Info]
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Associate Professor Jennifer Tieman, Associate Professor in the Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University
13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session D5 - Education
Meeting Room 217
13:00 - 13:25D5.1 - Transferring learning into palliative care practice: Preparing effective workplace activities following clinical placements in palliative care [More Info]
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Dr Stuart Ekberg, Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
13:25 - 13:40D5.2 - Paediatric Nutrition: “To feed, or not to feed, that is the question” [More Info]
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Sara Fleming, Nurse Practitioner, Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Women's and Children's Hospital
13:40 - 14:05D5.3 - Are WE fit for the future? Self-care strategies to future-proof compassionate palliative care. [More Info]
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Jason Mills, Research Project Manager, Australian Catholic University, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine.
14:05 - 14:30D5.4 - Hospital admissions at the end of life: Reasons, appropriateness and avoidability [More Info]
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Professor Joachim Cohen, Professor of the End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University
13:00 - 14:30Concurrent Session D6 - Community
Meeting Room 216
13:00 - 13:25D6.1 - The Approach To End-Of-Life Care: A Community Pharmacy’s Perspective [More Info]
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Paul Tait, Advanced Practice Pharmacist, Southern Adelaide Palliative Services
13:25 - 13:50D6.2 - Supporting a ‘good death’ in residential aged care settings [More Info]
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Ms Jenny Davis, Project Manager, Benetas/Monash University
13:50 - 14:05D6.3 - Exploring, recognising and preparing for palliative care needs in lung transplantation [More Info]
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Dr Chi Li, Palliative care fellow, Alfred Health
14:052 - 14:20D6.4 - Decision making at the end of life for terminally ill people who live alone [More Info]
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Kim Skett, Quality Co-ordinator, Silver Chain
14:20 - 14:35D6.5 - “Road-tripping” – taking specialist palliative care consultancy on the road [More Info]
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Dr Aisling Griffin, Senior Medical Officer, Peninsula Health
14:30 - 14:40Refresher Break [More Info]
Trade Foyer
14:40 - 15:40Plenary 15: The Closing Panel - Turning words into action - taking palliative care into the future [More Info]
Plenary Room 3
Professor Joachim Cohen, Professor of the End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University
Professor David Currow, Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders Centre for Clinical Change, Flinders University
Dr Gail Eva PhD, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Sciences , Brunel University London
Associate Professor Katrina Anderson, Associate Professor, General Practice, Australian National University Medical School
Professor Margaret O'Connor, Professor of Nursing, Swinburne University
15:40 - 16:00Closing Ceremony [More Info]
Plenary Room 3