Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN

Ms. Dahlin is Co-Director of the Palliative APRN Externship; Adjunct Associate Professor for the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Pharmacy, PhD in Palliative Care, Master of Science, and Graduate Certificate; a Palliative Nurse Practitioner for Salem Hospital; and consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). She serves as national ELNEC faculty and is a member of the American Hospital Association Circle of Life Committee, Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Coalition, the Network for Patient Centered Care, the Person Driven, Community Centered Network, and the Massachusetts Serious Illness Nursing Task Force.

Ms. Dahlin is a past member of the Massachusetts Quality of Life and Palliative Care Advisory Committee and past Co-chair of the Palliative Care Workgroup for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer and Prevention Control Network. Ms. Dahlin served on the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership Post-Acute Care/Long Term Care Workgroup, and Clinician Workgroup. She was editor of National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 2nd and 3rd editions and referenced the 1st edition. She wrote the Hospice and Palliative APRN Professional Practice and the Guide Billing and Coding Primer for the Hospice and Palliative APRN. She is co-editor for Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, now in its 2nd edition. She edited the Palliative Nursing Scope and Standards, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and authored the 6th edition. Ms. Dahlin is a Fellow of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a 2016 recipient of a Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Leadership Scholar Award. She was named an American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2018 Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has authored peer reviewed articles, chapters, and curricula as well as presented nationally and internationally.