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LifeCircle is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional representation of people, organizations, and institutions in South Dakota whose purpose is to improve care at the end of life for people of the state.
Visit the LifeCircle page for more info.
Advance Care Planning are conversations between a patient, family and a healthcare provider about future healthcare decisions that may need to be made if the patient is suddenly ill or injured and unable to make their own medical decisions. These discussions will often result in Advance Directives which are written documents naming a medical power of attorney, directing the type of care they wish to receive through a living will or transportable medical orders if the patient has and advanced disease.
Visit the Advance Care Planning page for more information.
State
  • Programs supporting Palliative Care
  • State Wide Grants
    • 2021-2022: USD Bush Grant- Palliative Care Education Project ECHO- Cheryl Fischbach, DNP, RN; Sabina Kupershmidt, PhD; Helene Hegge, MS, RN
    • 2020-2023: Avera HRSA Grant- South Dakota Palliative Care Network- Charlene Berke; Mari Perrenoud RN, MSA, CHPN; Sarah Mollman, PhD, RN, CHPN, CNE
    • 2020-2024: NIH (NCI): R-01: Advancing Palliative Care in Northern Plains American Indians. Mary Isaacson, PhD, CHPN, SDSU Associate Professor; Dr. Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman-Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care Physician; Dr. Frannie Arneson-Avera Palliative Care Physician; Dr. Daniel Peterite- Monument Health Radiation Oncologist; J.R. LaPlante- Avera Director of Tribal Relations and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; Tinka Duran- Senior Director-Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center and member of the Rosebud Sioux Nation
    • 2022-2023: SDSU- Avera Cancer Institute-Early Palliative Care for American Indians and Rural Patients w/Advanced Cancer- Sarah Mollman, PhD, RN, CHPN, CNE and Brandon Varilek, PhD, BAN, CHPN, CNE
    • 2022: SDSU RSCA Challenge Grant: The Impact of Personal Familiarity on Goals of Care Conversations. Brandi Pravecek, DNP, CHPN and Mary Isaacson, PhD,  CHPN
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Upcoming Education

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September

16sep12:00 pm1:00 pmPalliative Care: Benefits for Patients and CaregiversWebinar

19sep3:00 pm4:00 pmBRIEFING: Voices from the Field - Findings from CAPC’s First Annual Palliative Pulse SurveyCAPC Webinar

26sep11:30 am12:30 pmCHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ADDRESSING DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDALITY IN THE ELDERLYMJHS Hospice and Palliative Care Webinar

October

08oct11:00 am12:30 pmAssessing and Addressing End-of-Life Needs of Veterans (member only)SDAHO Webinar

10oct1:00 pm2:00 pmDeveloping All-Star Volunteer Leadership (member only)SDAHO Webinar

24oct1:00 pm2:00 pmHuddling the Hospice Team: Making Successful Volunteer Assignments (member only)SDAHO Webinar

November

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July 15-16, 2024 | 2024 Palliative, Hospice and Home Care Summit (BRI Network) | Nashville, TN

September 16-18, 2024 | 2024 NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference | Denver Colorado

September 28, 2024 | 2024 Team Conference for Hospice & Palliative Care (HPNA) | Baltimore, MD

October 20-22, 2024 | 2024 Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo (NAHC) | Tampa, Florida

October 21-22, 2024 | The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care 2024 National Leadership Summit | Washington D.C.

Palliative Care Education Series: Core Concepts for Primary Palliative Care

Palliative Care Education Series has been created by local specialty palliative care professionals based on the National Clinical Practice Guidelines for quality Palliative Care (4th Ed.). These sessions are tailored to rural primary care professionals with the goal of enhancing their ability to provide primary palliative care locally to improve quality of care and support for those living with serious illness and their families.

  • Advance Care Planning: What, Why, When and How | In this session, you will be introduced to Advance Care Planning -what it is and what it is not including who should be involved in having advance care planning conversations, when advance care planning should occur and the documents used in advance care planning. | Click Here
  • Providing Care for the Imminently Dying | This video provides education on signs of the dying process through physical assessment of the patient and how to communicate with family on anticipatory changes. | Click Here
  • Palliative Care: Goals of Care | Objectives for this presentation are to identify when to have a goals of care conversation and who should be involve; how to prepare for the meeting; the steps involved in helping patients identify their preferred goals; and documentation needed for the conversation. | Click Here
  • Great Plains Native American Cultural Lens to Palliative Care | Viewers will learn culturally sensitive approaches to palliative care when working with Native American patients including education on customs, beliefs and protocols when working not only with patients, but also their families and caregivers. | Click Here
  • Inequities in Palliative & Hospice Care | Viewers will learn the difference between equity and equality and reflect on past cases of perceived or real palliative/hospice inequity and discuss equity alongside the clinical practice guidelines followed by an exploration of the concept of cultural humility in palliative care. | Click Here
  • Introduction to the Incorporation of Basic Ethics Principles into the Provision of Primary Palliative Care | Through an introduction to basic medical ethics, viewers will be equipped with basic tools to incorporate ethics into your practice. | Click Here
  • Physical Aspects of Palliative Care | Education on common disease processes, associated symptoms and symptom management in palliative care patients will be provided in this educational session. |  Click Here
  • The Importance of Self-Care within Palliative Care | Education in this video is centered around recognition of burnout and compassion fatigue and their effects.  It also addresses how to develop an understanding of the benefits of self-care, how to evaluate your experience of burnout or compassion fatigue and identifying what you are currently doing to practice self-care. | Click Here
  • Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care | This education provides an overview of the role of the spiritual care provider on the team and the responsibility of all team members for spiritual care. Spirituality, religious, and existential aspects of palliative care are defined.  Different models of spiritual care will be discussed, and an introduction of spiritual care assessments will be provided. | Click Here
  • Introduction to Palliative Care | Learners will receive an introduction and overview into palliative care and explore how integration of palliative care can help support many different patients across different trajectories of illness and disease states. | Click Here