The Mary Pazdur Award Presentation, Followed by the Keynote Address: "Letting"

Learning Objectives:

• Conduct difficult conversations with patients using listening and conversational skills
• Relate the concept of mortality to the field of caring for patients with cancer
• Discuss the dynamics of professional grief work and its relationship to operational processes
• Articulate the ways burnout/compassion fatigue affects professional practice
• Begin the process of crafting a worldview of life that includes death