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Professional education
When you're a nurse
you know that every day you will touch a life
or a life will touch yours.
you know that every day you will touch a life
or a life will touch yours.
— Unknown author
The institute accomplishes much on the educational front to promote end-of-life care among nursing students and health care professionals.
To date, the institute has:
- Developed a death and dying course. The course is open to all Marquette students.
- Developed a continuing education module within the Death and Dying course, Grief Work.
- Hosted presentations at regional and local conferences, including the Good Death presentation delivered at the Sinai Annual Geriatric Conference in Milwaukee.
- Developed and presented education sessions from 2003 to the present at the annual End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium sponsored by Aurora Health Care.
- Hosted three colloquia featuring nationally recognized experts in end-of-life care.
Speakers and event dates included:
Dr. William Lamers, a medical consultant with the Hospice Association of America (April 2003)
Dr. Ardith Doorenbos, R.N., a post-doctoral fellow at Michigan Sate University specializing in end-of-life care (April 2004)
Dr. Karin T. Kirchhoff, R.N..F.A.A.N., Rodefer Chair and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, national expert of end-of-life care (May 2005)
- Developed core curriculum on culture and end-of-life care for nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses and advanced practice nurse who are affiliated with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Organization
- Dr. Maureen O'Brien, R.N., clinical associate professor at Marquette completed End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium in pediatric nursing
Courses on death and dying
- Interdisciplinary Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Community education
- Interdisciplinary Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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