Constance Dahlin, RNCS, MSN, OCNS, CHPN

Advanced Practice Nurse
CoDirector of Outpatient Clinic
Palliative Care Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital
Institute of Health Professions
Fellow and Faculty Member,
Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
Founders 601, 55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 2114-2696
Phone: 617-724-8659
Fax: 617-724-8693

Educational and professional experience:

Harvard-Radcliffe College, A.B.
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, M.S.N.,
OCNS (Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist), ANP (Adult Nurse Practitioner)
ANCC Certified in Advanced Practice Nursing Adult Primary Care & Advanced Practice Nursing Palliative Care

National Consensus Project Steering Committee, 2001-present
AHA Circle of Life Award Committee 2002-present
ELNEC Faculty for CE version, Graduate Version, Oncology Version, Critical Care Version, 2002 - present
Lead Consultant for ELNEC Critical Care
Hospice and Palliative Care Association, Board Member 1999-2005
Promoting Excellence at The End of Life Advanced Practice Forum 2001-2002
Nurse Consultant to Robert Wood Johnson "Merging Critical Care and Palliative Care Cultures" at MGH
Senior Mentor to HRSA RN Residency in Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Project Coordinator for MGH Inpatient Hospice Beds.

Current teaching and research interests:

Currently I am the senior nurse practitioner on the service and co-direct the outpatient service. I have developed the inpatient hospice program at MGH.  I have several areas of interest: consistency of evidenced-based, innovative palliative care and the collaborative interdisciplinary process, particularly as it relates to nursing. To that end, I serve on the Steering Committee of the National Consensus Project for Palliative care that developed Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care in 2004. I am currently the editor on a series of articles on the domains and the related preferred practices as adopted by the National Quality Forum. I serve on the American Hospital Association Circle of Life Award Committee.  I am on the national faculty for End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) basic, oncology, graduate, and critical care versions. I helped develop the critical care version. I am senior mentor for our HRSA grant “RN Residency in Geriatrics and Palliative Care.”  Previously, I served on the board of the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association for 8 years, culminating in serving as president.  I also served on the board of the Massachusetts Federation of Hospice and Palliative Care. I served as the nurse educator for our Robert Wood Johnson “Merging Critical Care and Palliative Care Cultures” grant.

If you have additional questions, please contact us via e-mail at: pallcare@partners.org .