Finding Our Way through Grief and Loss

June 30, 2022

Program start day and time: Thursday, June 30, 2022, at 1pm EST
Format: Microsoft Teams virtual education
Description: Grief is a natural response to the various losses we experience in life – including the loss of our sense of “normal,” connections with family and friends, and other challenges we have faced in the pandemic. In this webinar, we will discuss the impact of loss and explore ways to care for ourselves and support others.

Note: For accommodation requests, questions about this program, and/or its set-up, please contact UPMC Senior Services at UPMCSeniorServices@UPMC.edu or 866-430-8742. However, we may be limited in responding to questions the day of the program.

Target Audience

Nurses

Social workers

Learning Objectives

By the completion of this session, participants should be able to: 

  • Understand their own experiences of grief and loss through opportunities for self-reflection.
  • Provide examples of non-death losses, secondary losses, collective grief, anticipatory grief, and disenfranchised grief.
  • Identify specific issues/challenges those who are grieving may experience.
  • Describe strategies for caring for ourselves and others who are grieving.

 

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/31/2022
Course expires: 
07/21/2022
Event starts: 
06/30/2022 - 1:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
06/30/2022 - 2:00pm EDT

Grief is a natural response to the various losses we experience in life – including the loss of our sense of “normal,” connections with family and friends, and other challenges we have faced in the pandemic. In this webinar, we will discuss the impact of loss and explore ways to care for ourselves and support others.

By the completion of this session, participants should be able to:  

  • Understand their own experiences of grief and loss through opportunities for self-reflection.
  • Provide examples of non-death losses, secondary losses, collective grief, anticipatory grief, and disenfranchised grief.
  • Identify specific issues/challenges those who are grieving may experience.
  • Describe strategies for caring for ourselves and others who are grieving.

 

 

Disclaimer statement: the information presented at this CEU program represents the views and opinions of the individual presenters, and does not constitute the opinion or endorsement of, or promotion by, the UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center or Affiliates and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Reasonable efforts have been taken intending for educational subject matter to be presented in a balanced, unbiased fashion and in compliance with regulatory requirements. However, each program attendee must always use his/her own personal and professional judgment when considering further application of this information, particularly as it may relate to patient diagnostic or treatment decisions including, without limitation, FDA-approved uses and any off-label uses.

Teams meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

This program will occur as a Microsoft Teams webinar. Individuals can join through the Teams app, a web browser (suggested browsers are Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome; no software download is required), or through their phone.

Cynthia Grindel, LSW

Program Manager

LifeSolutions EAP

 

Faculty disclosure: No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

 

Accreditation statement: 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 1.0 continuing education credits.

 

Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour.

 

Social Work (ASWB)

This program is offered for 1.0 hour of social work continuing education.

 

Other Health Care 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

  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
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Required Hardware/software

Microsoft Teams