Military and veteran caregivers play a critical yet often underrecognized role in supporting Veterans with complex physical, cognitive, and behavioral health needs. While their contributions are essential to long-term care and recovery, caregivers themselves frequently experience significant challenges to their own health and wellbeing, including chronic stress, burnout, social isolation, and unmet healthcare needs.

This session integrates current research with lived experiences to describe the multidimensional impact of caregiving within military and veteran communities. Drawing on emerging data and personal narratives, we will explore the biopsychosocial effects of caregiving and the gaps that persist across healthcare and support systems.

Participants will gain insight into evidence-informed strategies and innovative models to strengthen caregiver support in palliative and interdisciplinary care settings. The session will highlight opportunities to design more responsive, equitable, and caregiver-centered systems, ensuring that those who care for our nation’s warfighters are themselves seen, supported, and sustained.

Myron Cloyd, DMI, BCC

Organization: Memorial Hermann Heath System

This interactive workshop reframes deep listening as a clinical and ethical intervention in palliative care. Participants examine how system pressures shape listening behaviors and contribute to moral distress, while learning practical strategies to deepen listening at the bedside and within teams. Through experiential exercises, case-based discussion, and reflective tools, attendees gain language and frameworks that align care with patient values, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, and support sustainable, compassion-rooted practice.

Jennifer Jessen, EdD, RN, CNOR, FNAP & Theresa Jizba, DNP, AGACNP-BC, ACHPN & Meghan Potthoff, PhD, APRN-NP, CPNP-AC & Amanda Kirkpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN & Amy Abbott, PhD, RN & Margo Minnich, DNP, RN & Rebecca Davis, DNP, PHNA-BC & Johnathan Hogzett, MSN, RN & Adam Traen DNP, RN

Organization: Creighton University

The INTERprofessional Advance Care Planning ConversaTions (INTERACT) program is a community-based educational initiative designed to prepare students to facilitate meaningful advance care planning discussions with adults in community settings. Student teams from nursing, social work, and business collaborate with community partners to guide conversations that address healthcare, financial, and funeral planning. Guided by a Community and Client Advisory Board and supported by an AI-assisted listening tool, the program emphasizes authentic community engagement and experiential learning. This presentation describes the development and implementation of the INTERACT clinic and shares early evaluation findings on student learning and preparedness to facilitate values-based conversations.