Susan
O'Conner-Von,
PhD, RN-BC, CNE, FNAP
Professor of Nursing
University of Minnesota
Dr. Susan O’Conner-Von is a Professor in the School of Nursing and served for seven years as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Center for Spirituality and Healing. She was on staff at Children’s Hospital, St. Paul for 33 years and a hospice volunteer for 16 years. Dr. O’Conner-Von advances interprofessional healthcare through her program of research, teaching and service activities with a focus on holistic care and palliative care. In the classroom, Susan’s personalized involvement with her students ignites passion for nursing research, professional development and to be life-long learners. She has received numerous awards recognizing her accomplishments.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This lightning talk will describe the process of building an interprofessional resource focused on grief and the end of life. Work began in early 2022 to pull together a taskforce on Death, Dying, and Disposition, and this work was subsequently split into 3 subgroups. This group represents the resources/research subgroup.This group identified a gap in a lack of a national database with an interprofessional focus focused on end of life materials. Members from the taskforce as a whole were asked to submit resources, and then an interprofessional group convened to decide on a forum/site for…