Dr. Janet Timms School of Nursing – Caregiver Education and End-Of Life Care
Dr. Timms served on the Palliative Care Committee at Anderson Area Medical Center, and assisted in the development and teaching of a series of End of Life staff development conferences. She collaborated with Anderson Area Medical Center to develop and implement a nursing research project to assess end of life knowledge and attitudes, and collaborated with colleagues in the South Carolina Nurses Association to design and implement a statewide project to assess end of life knowledge and attitudes of S. C. nurses. She collaborated with Anderson Area Medical Center and Greenville Memorial Hospital to develop and implement a research project to investigate workplace skills of Clemson University BSN graduates. She has collaborated with nursing staff at St. Francis Health System to plan and implement research designed to study early re-admissions of elderly patients, and collaborated with St. Francis Health System nurses to develop a community program to study caregiver needs. Dr. Timms, in collaboration with Dr. Cheryl Dye, created a caregiver education curriculum that includes components on end-of-life care. Dr. Timms and Dr. Janet Craig developed the Upstate End of Life Educational, a group of professional providers comprised of 44 partners representing major health care organizations and setting in upstate South Carolina. The collaborative effort resulted in planning of a series of six multi-institutional interdisciplinary conferences over two years, three of which were provided in 2004-2005.
Dr. Janet Craig and Dr. Janet Timms School of Nursing
Drs. Craig and Timms have developed The Upstate EOL Educational Collaborative, a group of professional providers comprised of 36 partners who represent all major health care organizations and settings in the upstate, as well as university and technical programs preparing health professionals, AHEC, and The Carolinas Center for Hospice and EOL Care. SC Alliance 2020 seed money and matching dollars from Greenville Hospital System, St. Francis, and Interim Hospice and Laurens County Health System were obtained to support an initiative designed to raise awareness and assist professionals “to think globally and act locally” to improve end-of-life care for seniors in upstate South Carolina. A series of six multi-institutional, interdisciplinary communication and knowledge building conferences over a two year period (2004-5) featuring nationally recognized experts is planned, the first of which was held November 10, 2004. Community needs assessment research is in the process with student co-investigators.