Building the Workforce We Need to Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop

Building the Workforce We Need to Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop is organized by The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (HMD-NASEM) and will be held on Nov 07, 2019 at Keck Center, Washington, Dist of Col, United States of America.

Target Audience:
The workshop will examine the workforce to care for people with serious illness, including physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, community-based workers, and home health care workers. Workshop speakers will explore challenges and opportunities related to educating, training, and retaining the serious illness care workforce. The workshop will also focus on preparing and deploying interprofessional teams to care for people of all ages and all stages of serious illness.

Description:
The number of people requiring care for serious illness is expected to rise significantly over the next several decades as a result of the aging of the population, and the associated increase in the number of people living with multiple complex chronic health conditions. The current workforce, however, is not adequately prepared to meet the rapidly growing demand for services.

The workshop will open with an overview of the current and projected state of the workforce for care of people with serious illness. The workshop will then unfold over four sessions. The first session will focus on the development of the pipeline for specialists, including mid-career, graduate, and fellowship certificate and certification programs. Preparing all clinicians to care for people with serious illness will be examined in the second session. The third session will examine challenges and opportunities facing the community-based and home health care workforce. The last session will focus on ways to maximize the contributions of interprofessional team members, showcasing examples of workforce models in the care of people with serious illness. The speakers will discuss the reproducibility and scalability of innovative care models, specific considerations in the care of special populations and long-term care settings, and overcoming compassion fatigue and promoting resilience and retention.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.