2017 Avera Caring Professionals Conference (May 16 2017)

Agenda:
Caring Professional Preliminary Agenda2017.pdf

Target Audience:

We welcome all people who work in the field of whole-person care, including chaplains, social workers, parish nurses, psychologists, nurses, counselors, physicians, therapists, long-term care administrators and providers, home health and hospice caregivers, health care administrators, and other health care providers.

Location:
Sioux Falls Convention Center
1101 N. West Ave., Sioux Falls, SD

Time:
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
     (Registration, Vendor fair and Breakfast begin at 8:00 a.m.)

Registration Fee:
$45 / per person
$30 / student fee (list current school in comments)

Employee Registration
If you are an Avera Employee and your leader will be paying for you, please have your leader register you on SharePoint

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations are not refundable; however substitution participants may be made at any time. Please note that if you do not cancel and do not attend, you are still responsible for payment. 

This conference will not be provided via video conference.

This conference seeks to foster greater understanding and appreciation of whole-person care focused on joy, grief, compassion fatigue, and gratitude, and their significance in the sacred nature of health care.

Employee Registration: If you are an Avera Employee and your leader will be paying for you, please have your leader register you on SharePoint.

1. Define Spirit and Joy. (DeLong)
2. Explore the relationship between personal experience and person centered care. (DeLong)
3. Describe spiritual awareness, including its relationship to hospital employees and patients. (DeLong)
4. Explain benefits of incorporating spirituality in medicine. (Tappe)
5. Identify ways to incorporate spirituality in daily professional practice. (Tappe)
6. Define Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. (Vanderlee, Wise-Vanderlee)
7. Review spiritual and psychological components of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing in the healthcare setting. (VanderLee, Wise-VanderLee)
8. Define compassion fatigue, including its symptoms and impact on employees and teams. (Cheatham)
9. Identify contributing factors to compassion fatigue. (Cheatham)
10. Apply prevention and intervention techniques to decrease the risk and impact of compassion fatigue on themselves and their teams. (Cheatham)
11. Describe how our own struggle with suffering impacts our ability to be present with others. (Cheatham)
12. List things not to say to and do for those who are suffering. (Cheatham)
13. Demonstrate things to say to and do for those who are suffering. (Cheatham)
14. Describe what Taize prayer is. (O'Hara)
15. Identify ways to practice Taize prayer in daily life. (O'Hara)
16. Engage the creative process in personal prayer. (Seifert)
17. Recognize that creative expression is a way to enrich one's spiritual journey. (Seifert)
18. Practice praying with scripture. (Konz)
19. Practice praying with others. (Konz)
20. List benefits of essential oils, including how to use them. (Flickema)
21. Identify ways to incorporate using essential oils into daily life. (Flickema)
22. Explore the grief experience from the patient/caregiver perspective. (DeLong)
23. Explore the relationship between caregiving and self-care. (DeLong)

Recording Attendance
Program participants should bring their cellphone with them to the conference. Program check-in for this event will be taken via text message.

Dress in Layers
We recommend dressing layers to allow for personal adjustments to the room temperature.

Vendors:
This conference will feature a variety of vendors invited to enhance the learning experience and who work with products or services that would support the education goal of the conference.

IPCE (Team-based): This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 9.00 IPCE credit(s) for learning and change.

Lisa DeLong, RN

Lisa is a registered nurse, author, bereavement facilitator, nationally known speaker and advocate for the needs of patients and their families. Lisa’s first-born son died at the age of 15 when he relapsed after a ten-year remission from leukemia. Six years later, her youngest son, was also diagnosed with the same kind of non-familial leukemia. He has completed treatments and is now a healthy teenager! Lisa also has two courageous daughters who were bookended by their brothers. As a nurse, Lisa has truly experienced life on both sides of the curtain—that of patient and caregiver.

Lisa’s 30 years of nursing experience has truly been a womb to tomb experience. She began as a nurse’s aid in her teens, a postpartum and newborn nursery nurse while raising her family, and learned pediatric oncology while caring for her sons. She has been an advocate for palliative and hospice care at the state level. Lisa intimately understands the sacred nature of healthcare, its trials and tribulations and the transformational joy, which accompanies purpose driven, worthwhile work.

Rev. Dr. Carla Cheatham

Rev. Dr. Carla Cheatham began her career in social services with an M.A. in Psychology, certification in trauma counseling, and experience in counseling centers for children, adolescents, and adults. Carla received her Ph.D. in Health and Kinesiology from Texas A&M University and her M.Div. from Perkins School of Theology at SMU.

As an ordained minister, she has led faith communities and directed an interfaith non-profit.  Carla has worked for 10 years as a hospice chaplain and, for 2 of those years, also served as a bereavement coordinator.
Carla strives to practice what she teaches with regular hikes with her two rescued border collies, mountain-bike excursions, and by absorbing as much live music as she possibly can in her beloved Austin

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Carla Cheatham, PhD
Carla Cheatham Consulting Group, Inc

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Lisa DeLong, RN

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Dawn Flickema, MD, Physician
Physician
Avera Medical Group Integrative Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Tweeter Henseler
NA
Avera Sacred Heart

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jon Konz

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Paula Lubeck, RN
RN Education Consultant
Avera McKennan

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

BROOKE MURPHY
Mission Formation Consultant
Avera

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Candace Nelson, LCSW
Social Worker
Avera

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Christina O'Hara, M Div
Rector
Church of the Good Shepherd

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Julie Pfeifer
Clinical Manager
Avera St Lukes

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Vonda Reed, A.S. Accounting
Talent Development Consultant
Avera

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Roxanne Seifert, PBVM, MA
Vice President, Mission
Avera Queen of Peace

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Gail Sommerfeld, BA
VP Mission
Avera Health

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Steve Tappe, M.T.S.
Vice President of Mission, AMG
AMG

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jerry Vander Lee, D.Min., LMFT, BCC
Chaplaincy Manager
Avera McKennan Hospital

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Nancy Wise-Vander Lee, Ph D
Psychologist
Avera Behavioral Health

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Tuesday, May 16, 2017