Nancy Joyner is currently a Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist for Altru Health System in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Nancy has extensive experience caring for patients with end stage disease, and working with hospice patients and their families at home and in the acute care setting. Her care for this specialized patient population includes intensive care, surgical critical care, oncology and renal patients. Nancy has had training through the Center to Advance Palliative Care, Palliative Care Leadership Center at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis. She holds a certification as an Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse and has prescriptive authority within her palliative scope of practice.

Nancy is an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium trained presenter, having presented and published at local, state and national levels. She has researched and published continuing education articles on pain, hydration and nutrition in terminal care, as well as Alzheimer's Disease. She serves as an active work group member for the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) Palliative Care Guideline development. She recognizes that caring for patients with end stage disease, and their families, requires extreme sensitivity, deep compassion and extraordinary knowledge.

Speaker Disclosures: 

Financial: Nancy E. Joyner is CEO and President of Nancy Joyner Consulting, P.C. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Nancy E. Joyner has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.