On January 1st, 2011, HPNA will begin celebrating its 25th anniversary as a professional nursing association leading the way to promote excellence in the provision of palliative nursing care through leadership development, education and the support of research in the field. Happy Anniversary HPNA!http://www.hpna.org/default.aspx

HPNA Approved Educators are nurse educators who have completed the HPNA Approved Educators Workshop that prepares them to teach hospice and palliative content. There are over 500 HPNA Approved Educators. If you are interested in becoming an HPNA Approved for the upcoming course date/application. link here

The early bird discount for the 2011 AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly in Vancouver, BC, Canada is available now through January 05, 2011 http://bit.ly/fH5iY5

HPNA Research Scholars Program accepting applications for the 2011 Kathleen Foley Palliative Care Retreat October 11-13, 2011, Montreal, Quebec Application deadline for the 2011 program is January 15, 2011. Learn More http://www.hpna.org/DisplayPage.aspx?Title=Research%20Scholars%20Program

HPNA is pleased to welcome incoming president Todd Hultman, PhD APRN-BC ACHP. Dr. Hultman, who begins his second term on the HPNA Board of Directors in 2011, is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). His term as president will begin January 1, 2011.

HPNA Membership has launched an online journal titled Expressions. Creative works of HPNA members will be posted in an electronic journal for public viewing on the HPNA website. We are currently accepting poems, stories, narratives, etc. that depicts hospice and palliative nursing. Submissions can be sent to chadr@hpna.org or nancyt@hpna.org in the National Office. Members can also mail send their creative works to the National Office of HPNA.

FREE For HPNA Members. 3 Dementia Care E-Learning Courses and earn a total of 4.5 Contact Hours- Register through "Members Only" at www.HPNA.org