Conference 2015 PCNNZ Conference 2015 – Presentation Files Dilemmas and Ethical Issues in Palliative Care: “The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly” Link to Conference Programme Click on the title to view the presentation slides. Keynote Speaker/s Organisation Topic – hyperlinked to PDF version of PowerPoint file Prof Phil Larkin University College Dublin, UK Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being – The road to compassion in palliative care and end-of-life care The Symbolic wisdom of our teachers – the meaning & expression of compassion in palliative care and end of life care practice The All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care – A model of palliative care as social justice Jolan Stokes Neringah Palliative Hospital, AUS Communicating effectively with patients and families Jackie Robinson Auckland DHB Problematisation’ of palliative care and death in a hospital setting: A critical analysis of palliative care policy Invited Speaker/s Organisation Topic – hyperlinked to PDF version of PowerPoint file Emily Clark MidCentral Health Death & Dying; Out of the shadows Dr Paula Martin Ministry of Health What’s happening in Government policy? Refreshing the New Zealand Health Strategy, Health of Older People’s Strategy and the Review of Adult Palliative Care Services Suzanne Rolls NZ Nurses Organisation Embracing the future: Challenges, choices and consequences in today’s health environment influencing nursing practice Gayle Williams Capital & Coast DHB Health, Happiness & Community Presenter/s Organisation Topic – hyperlinked to PDF version of PowerPoint file Carla Arkless Presbyterian Support Southland Lessons from a Kenyan hospice (workshop – no slide presentation) Wendie Ayley & Vanessa Eldridge Mary Potter Hospice Home deaths. How are we doing? Judith Bailey & Jackie Robinson Mercy Hospice Auckland So you want to become a Nurse Practitioner and/or need this role in your organisation – a practical approach Helen Butler Mercy Hospice Auckland The challenge of teaching palliative care in a different country Celine Collins Hospice Southland Specialist palliative care nurses’ perceptions of the legalisation of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: A New Zealand study Jenny Hansen Waikato Hospital, Waikato DHB Artificial enteral feeding in patients with incurable head and neck tumours – prognosis informing decision making Claire Hatherell Hospice North Shore Lost in translation? End of life conversations with family/whanau Kathleen Lynch Mercy Hospice Auckland Legalising euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: implications for palliative care providers Julie Maher Whitireia New Zealand Do nurses have a shared understanding of the terms commonly used when discussing euthanasia? Anne Morgan Hospice New Zealand To feed or not to feed; that is the question Developing a Palliative Care literate workforce in all care settings Sandra Notley Waitemata DHB A patient with suspected metastatic spinal cord compression and the dilemma of non-resident status Jackie Robinson Auckland DHB Euthanasia: Professional positioning in a social debate Cynthia Seamark Hospice Taranaki Nurses experiencing layered suffering, do we care? Jolan Stokes Neringah Palliative Hospital, AUS Pain and dementia at end of life Avril Walker South Canterbury DHB The implementation and value of using the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) in a Health District Hannah Walker Mercy Hospice Auckland Former drug addict to drug dealer in the last months of life Ethics of nurse provided spiritual care Dr Martin Woods & Joy Bickley Asher Mary Potter Hospice The continuing euthanasia debate in New Zealand: What are the views of palliative care nurses?