KSNA team seleced for Nursing Leadership Academy for End-Of-Life Care

Kansas Nurse, Feb 2002

Two KSNA members were nominated and selected for participation in the first class of the Nursing Leadership Academy for End-of-Life Care sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson. John Hopkins University School of Nursing is administering this grant-funded program. Penny Marshall and Pat Plank will serve as a team for 12 months starting with the April workshop in Baltimore. Following the workshop they will work on the refinement of their action plan for Kansas.

Penny Marshall, PhD, RN, brings both a personal and professional commitment to the topic of end-of-life care. She is a nursing professor for Johnson County Community College, and has completed the End-of-Life Nursing Education Course from the American Association of Colleges. She served as coordinator and author of two articles on palliative care for the August 2001 issue of The Kansas Nurse.

Pat Plank, MSN, RN, is currently administrator of Logan County Manor, a longterm care facility in Oakley, Kansas. Prior to that position, she was a home health administrator for Harper Hospital Home Health. She has first hand experience working with the aging population, and wrote her masters' thesis on "Pain Intensity in Terminal Cancer Patients."