Quality of Life for Children Living with Severe Neurological Impairment and Their Families: How Can We Understand It Better, and Whose Lives Are We Talking About? (FR438)

Participants will experience and leave empowered to approach the medical narrative in a brief but meaningful way. In this workshop session, participants will be introduced to pertinent research and content on narrative medicine, and will participate in writing a 55-word story about a personal or professional encounter in hospice and palliative care, or about a topic that they want to explore in palliative care, such as hope, compassion, doubt, or guilt. Participants will share their 55-word story in dyads, give feedback on this method and its impact on resilience and reflection, and explore its utility on palliative care services, such as palliative care rounds, in large group discussion.