AANLCP Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning

Editorial Committee Agenda

5/9/2023

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, Patti, Megha, Dawn, Nellie,  Melinda Pearson

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:

• Qualitative research design tips

New Business:

• CEUs
• Meeting participation
• Peer Review
• Linkedin Call for submissions feedback

OLD Business:

• Follow up:
• Physicians and attorneys on long Covid – Nellie
• Dana collaboration
• Collaboration: Melinda, Megha, Dana
• Leads for Mental Health and Especially Interaction with Other Disciplines
• Collaborate for hierarchy of evidence article? Nellie, Melinda, Patti
• ICHCC-certification
• IRET
• Kaplan
• Capital Law School
• Readership poll
• Survey for topics
• What needs to be more advanced
• Outreach committee collaboration.
• Is the readability good for your experience/expertise level?

Planning ahead:

Article Topics:

• Methodology Memo

Mental Health:

• Costing
• Neuropsychological testing.
• How to understand
• What kinds are 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
• Grief processing
• Adjustment issues
• TBI stages for the patient and how to navigate it.
• Grief process
• Adjustment issues
• 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:

• Costing           
• Nursing Processes (Promote it)
• State laws and how they relate to Life Care
• Assessing and using the assessment tools
• Physicians and how they feel about working with life care planners. Communication preferences. (Find lecturers to interview.)
• Working with prosthetics companies.
• Rehab facilities: How to do it effectively.
• How to avoid duplicate charges.
• Physical therapist
• Acute, subacute, and traditional long-term care

Assistive and Durable Medical Equipment:

Joint care:

• Costing
• 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

• Costing
• G-tubes and pegs

Ethics

• Costing
• Case study standards of care/practice
• 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
• Interview a hospice nurse
• Home Care
• DNRs
• Living will
• Considerations/guidelines for considering

Orthopedic injuries

• Costing

Editorial Information

Tentative schedule Writer/reviewer deadlines