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Forward2024 Supporting Families at End of Life: A bereavement perspective - Sept 26, 2024
The educational course will teach supportive interventions for use during clinical visits, and train clinical staff to identify and communicate bereavement needs to all hospice disciplines. Improved support during end of life will reduce anxiety, fear and assist patients and families with adjustment to loss.
Target Audience
Nurse
Social Worker
Spiritual Care
HNAs
Learning Objectives
Define and identify anticipatory and preparatory grief.
Improve communication skills to provide quality support during the dying process.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Good Death.pdf | 1.14 MB |
| prepare caregivers for final days.pdf | 85.11 KB |
| provider communication.pdf | 1.95 MB |
The educational course will teach supportive interventions for use during clinical visits, and train clinical staff to identify and communicate bereavement needs to all hospice disciplines. Improved support during end of life will reduce anxiety, fear and assist patients and families with adjustment to loss.
Elizabeth Schandelmeier, LCSW, APHSW-C
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 2.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 2.00 ASWB
- 2.00 Attendance