UAB Department of Medicine UAB School of Nursing UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB UAB Students Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) AAHPM Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN Rachel Wells, PhD, RN Shena Gazaway Abraham Brody THIS HAPPENED! Honored! Thanks Paule Joseph, PhD, MBA, CRNP, FAAN

A different type of writing I wrote while my husband was still living. Poetry has been a cathartic grief outlet jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

🎉 Please join us in celebrating Marie Bakitas for her recent induction into the Sigma Nursing Researcher Hall of Fame during the 35th International Research Congress in Singapore. 👏 Well-deserved, Dr. Bakitas!

I’m excited to be co-leading a pre-conference workshop with Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN on developing clinical services for caregivers. I hope you’ll come join us APOS !

Congrats to ⁦Areej El-Jawahri⁩, the 2024 American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award for her work to improve palliative care for patients with hematologic cancers and their families! #hapc

An early congratulations to Dr. Rachel Wells (Rachel Wells, PhD, RN) who is being honored with the 2025 Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) New Investigator Award for her work testing models of early palliative care in heart failure! @mbakitas #hapc #hapc25 advancingexpertcare.org/news/hpna-anno…

Check out these caregiver training billing guides by the CAP-CT group at UC San Francisco. These guides include the billing codes in the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. #hapc carepartners.ucsf.edu/Billing%20%26%…

It's that time of year again! 📅Save the Date📅-Tues Jan 28th 2p EST We will have the illustrious Dr Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN teaching us about the support the caregiver for our January #PallOncCoP meeting. DM for a Zoom 🔗 or email [email protected] to be added to the listserv.

How can clinicians👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ support patients & caregivers in sharing 🗨️ what matters most?🫂 Our study identified key facilitators & barriers identified in the LVAD context🔍 Colleen McIlvennan Dan D. Matlock @ChrisKnoepkePhD Marie Bakitas Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN Journal of Cardiac Failure authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSid3pkRzhf…

My favorite meeting! Looking forward to listening/learning from Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN & seeing my ASCO PallOnc Community of Practice colleagues! Please join us! Oncology Nursing Society Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)

Dr Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN shows the mounting interest in #caregiver interventions in clinical publications over the past 40 years #pallonc #supponc ASCO PallOnc Community of Practice Mazie Tsang, MD, MAS, MS Darcy Burbage, DNP, RN, AOCN Tingting Zhang Jafar Al-Mondhiry, MD, MA Natasha Dhawan, MD Cristiane D Bergerot Gretchen A. McNally PhD MPH 🤩(she/her) Fionnuala Crowley

Dr Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN shows improved outcomes both for #caregivers AND the patients they care for evidence in the literature. #pallonc #supponc. ASCO PallOnc Community of Practice Dr Snezana Bosnjak Ben Thompson Osman Sütcüoğlu ASCO PallOnc Community of Practice Mazie Tsang, MD, MAS, MS Cristiane D Bergerot Kathryn DeCarli, MD, MBE @Cthompson_MD

Fantastic presentation by Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN at ASCO PallOnc Community of Practice meeting! Family caregivers provide an enormous amount of care to their families that traditionally have been provided by nurses/social workers & the amount of time is likely underestimated! ⬆️ Support is needed!

Are you interested in expanding caregiver support within your cancer center? There’s still time to register for our APOS pre-conference workshop on developing caregiver clinical services! Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN

Join us next week for this FREE #EAPC webinar hosted by the Reference Group for Family Caregivers. ➡️State of the science in interventions for carers ➡️Strategies for designing and conducting research Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/05efbd36…

UABSON Postdoctoral Scholar Avery Bechthold will be giving a podium presentation tomorrow at the South Carolina Hospice and Palliative Care Conference! View Schedule: bit.ly/4kGpq3t

Dr Avery Bechthold PhD BSN RN presents the challenges of engaging with #underrepresented populations in #hpm research at #SCHAPC25 rapid oral abstracts. Ben Thompson Nick Odom, PhD, RN, FAAN #hapc

New RCT out! The BMT-CARE App, a digital psychosocial intervention for HSCT family caregivers, significantly improved QOL, depression, burden, and PTSD symptoms vs. usual care. Important work led by Drs. Jamie Jacobs & Areej El-Jawahri 👉pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40444925/ #caregiving #hapc

New National Alliance for Caregiving brief “Implementing & Refining Caregiving Training Services in Medicare” provides an overview of Medicare Caregiver Training Services reimbursement for direct care activities necessary to support cancer patients. 👉 caregiving.org/wp-content/upl…

Behind patients with serious illness and disability, stands 63 million U.S. family caregivers. That's 1-in-4 U.S. adults. Check out these new stats and more in the newly released 2025 Caregiving in the U.S. Report by the National Alliance for Caregiving: caregivingintheus.org/# #hapc