This 4.5-hour workshop is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients experiencing pain at the end of life. This includes understanding what pain is and identifying different types of pain. Participants will learn how to conduct pain assessment, using pain assessment tools and strategies. Pain management strategies, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, will also be introduced.

This two-day professional workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn and experience a novel and clinically robust Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for cultivating existential wholeness among terminally-ill patients and their families facing the end of life.