Integrating Spiritual Care in Palliative Care
Date/Time: 11/18/2014, 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Provider: Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association
This presentation describes initial outcomes from two grants to improve the integration of spiritual care in palliative care, highlighting implications for clinical practice. The first project convened 40 national leaders for an inter-professional Spirituality Consensus Conference to develop a consensus-driven definition of spirituality and make recommendations to improve spiritual care in palliative care settings. The second project sought to apply these recommendations and to identify strategies for effecting sustainable institutional change with examples from a range of diverse settings as models of how this might be realistically achieved.
Speaker: Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C
Shirley is a licensed clinical social worker and founder of Collaborative Caring which is dedicated to enhancing excellence in the delivery of culturally-congruent, person-centered and family-focused interprofessional care. Shirley’s research, presentations and publications focus on quality-of-life, palliative care with an emphasis on leadership development and creating meaningful organizational change. Shirley has been the Principal Investigator on studies with over $3.3 million in external funding, with national leadership roles on over 50 additional projects. Her work has been disseminated through more than 100 publications and 400 professional presentations. She has been recognized with national, regional and local awards including the Social Work Leadership Award from the Project on Death in America and the Outstanding Education and Training Award by the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. She is on several editorial boards, is a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice and co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work. Shirley received her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Hawaii and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in palliative care at Lancaster University in Great Britain.
