AANLCP Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning

Editorial Committee Agenda

3/14/2023

Via ZOOM! (please don’t dress up) Address at the end of the page.

Beverage of choice encouraged.

8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific

Present: Stephen Axtell, Deana Vaverchak, Misty Coffman, Reilly Kelly, Melinda Pearson, Magha Rownd, Shauna Marie Sever, Dana Penilton, Kate Smith, Jenn Craigmyle, Dawn Cook,

Meeting Decorum: Use the hand-up reaction to indicate you have a contribution so the editor can be sure you, and everyone else, will get a chance to speak.

After Meeting Topic: Active and passive voice use in scientific writing.

OLD Business:

Follow up:

• Attorneys on long Covid – Nellie
• Dana collaboration
• Collaboration: Melinda, Megha, Dana
• Leads for Mental Health and Interaction with Other Disciplines
• Collaborate for hierarchy of evidence article? Nellie, Melinda, Patti
• ICHCC-certification
• IRET
• Kaplan
• Capital Law School

New Business:

• New Subjects for issues 2 years out.
• Spring 2025
• Summer 2026

Planning ahead:

Article Topics:

• Methodology Memo
• Diagnosis Invtervention

Mental Health:

• Neuropsychological testing.
• How to understand
• What kinds are important
• When it is important to push for it
• Pediatric testing
• Emotional Trauma and Mental Health
• Stages of mental health progression- recommended as part of any article in this series
• How to charge?
• Brain injuries
• How many sessions, how to decide
• Differences between the therapies, CBT, Neurofeedback, speech therapy
• Future psychiatric
• Evals
• Drug Counseling
• How do they overlap?
• Sexual assault
• How to read the reports

Interacting with other Disciplines:

• Nursing Processes (Promote it)
• State laws and how they relate to Life Care
• Assessing and using the assessment tools

Joint care:

• Shoulder/knee surgery, pricing
• Life expectancy tables, how to use.
• Varieties of surgery.
• Tendon Transfers
• Joint-centered articles:
• Shoulders, back, knee, hip, etc
• Hip replacements, best places to find costs.
• How to code.
• Hip care.
• Different kinds of therapies.
• Osteoarthritis
• Likelihood of complications and degeneration
• Hands, ankles, wrists.
• Rehabbing.
• ODG

Ostomy and Wound Care

• G-tubes and pegs

Ethics

• Difference between certified and non-certified life care planners.How to keep them accountable?
• Mandatory Reporting: how and who?
• Retained Defense Life Care Planner: Expert errors. What to consider.
• Ethical Violations: Defense or Plaintiff.
• How to tell an attorney that you don’t have a case.
•  Life Expectancies/ End of life care
• Home healthcare – assisted living
• Home Care
• DNRs
• Living will
• Considerations/guidelines for considering

Editorial Information

• Tentative schedule Writer/reviewer deadlines