Explore a comprehensive collection of hospice and palliative nursing sessions through the HPNA Annual Conference – On Demand. This learning experience features expert-led presentations and poster sessions offering practical insights, evidence-based best practices, and innovative solutions to strengthen care delivery and inspire professional growth.

All of the sessions delivered live at the conference will be pre-recorded and made available on May 11, 2026, for an on-demand conference experience.

Explore the latest pharmacology updates, gain strategies to advance equity and diversity in care, and discover how nurse leaders are driving meaningful change across organizations and communities. Through dynamic, accessible content, attendees will connect with forward-thinking approaches and real-world applications that address today’s most pressing challenges and emerging trends in hospice and palliative nursing.

Session Highlights Include:

Clinical Excellence & Symptom Management Track

• Following the Symptom Management Cues in CAHPS and HOPE
• Gabapentin: Possible Deterrent for End-of-Life Agitation?
• The Anticoagulant Conundrum: Facts, Fallacy, and Finding the Right Words
• Case Based Approaches to Advanced Pain Management in Outpatient Palliative Care

Innovation, Education & Future Directions Track

• Compassion Meets Innovation: AI and Simulation in Palliative Care Nursing Education
• Respiro: A Global Learning Experience for US and Mexican Palliative Care Development
• Beyond the Heart: Innovative Approaches to End-of-Life Symptom Management in Advanced Heart Failure
• ADAPT: A Novel Digital Adaptive Self-Care Approach to Integrated Palliative and Bereavement Care

Quality, Leadership & Systems Improvement Track

• Code Comfort: Prioritizing Palliative Care for Better Outcomes in the ICU
• Measure What Matters: Navigating the Benchmarking Gap in Palliative Care
• Enhancing Organizational Engagement through First Friday Education and Professional Development
• Clinical Lectureship – Painting the Picture – Advocating for Patients Through Documentation

Communication & Family Engagement Track

• From Admission to 13 Months: Compassionate Communication Across the Care Continuum
• Trauma-Informed and Equitable Approaches to Medical Treatment Goals Discussions
• Twilight Grief: Exploring the Continuum of Disenfranchised Pre-Death Loss
• Break the Silence: Using Your Voice to Transform Care, Build Trust, and Advance Equity in Serious Illness

Bonus Session: Beyond the Keynotes: A Conversation on Leadership in Practice

Bonus Workshop: Better Living Through Chemis-tree: Pharmacology Rooted in Comfort Care

Whether you're looking to enhance clinical skills, strengthen your team, or explore emerging research, these sessions are rich with applicable knowledge and inspiration.

Virtual attendees will gain access to the recorded sessions by May 11, 2026. Recorded sessions will be available until December 1, 2026.

Continuing Education

Learners may earn up to 19.27 ANCC NCPD and 5.37 Pharmacotherapeutic contact hours* upon successful completion of on-demand sessions that will be available in the HPNA Learning Center from May 11th until December 1st, 2026. Successful completion requires viewing the recordings and posters in their entirety and submitting the evaluations. Evaluations for on-demand sessions must be completed by December 1st, 2026.

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Disclosures: In accordance with ANCC accreditation requirements and ACCME standards, all individuals with the ability to control content were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest. Relevant financial relationships were disclosed and mitigated for presenter, Brett Snodgrass (Tonix Pharmaceuticals- speaker’s bureau and Vertex Pharmaceuticals-consultant and speaker’s bureau). All other planners and presenters of accredited education content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.

*NCPD and Pharm contact hour values are subject to change based upon presenter availability and recording length of on-demand content. Learners that attended the live conference may not claim contact hours for the same session on-demand. Conference sessions were pre-recorded and may have different credit values based on recording length from what was presented at the live conference.

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