Constance M. Dahlin, MSN, APRN, BC, PCM, is the Co-Director of the Outpatient Palliative Care Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and co-author of the Nov/Dec 2007 Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing article, "The National Consensus Project and National Quality Forum Preferred Practices in Care of the Imminently Dying."