Navigating Grief Conversations_Enduring

This interactive one-hour program is designed to strengthen healthcare professionals’ confidence and competence in supporting patients, families, and caregivers experiencing loss, grief, and bereavement. Through evidence-based strategies for understanding grief, navigating difficult conversations, addressing cultural and existential perspectives, and promoting healthy coping and recovery, learners will enhance their ability to provide compassionate support while fostering stronger interprofessional collaboration in end-of-life and bereavement care.

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Physicians

Learning Objectives

As a result of participation in this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Differentiate the stages of typical and complex grief and apply evidence-based interventions appropriate to each presentation.
  • Assess common grief reactions and implement healthy wellness and healing strategies to support adaptive coping.
  • Evaluate approaches to supporting bereaved individuals, incorporating concepts of symbolic mortality and cultural worldviews into compassionate care and communication.

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 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 Attendance
Course opens: 
11/23/2026
Course expires: 
11/23/2029

Course Director:

  • Eric Horwith, Director Of Business Development at UPMC, UPMC Home Healthcare.

Planning Committee:

  • Scott Miller, MD -  UPMC Home Healthcare
  • Dean Paradis, MSN, RN, CCM - Manager of Clinical Training and Quality Assurance at UPMC Health Plan

CONFLICT OF INTEREST 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 companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

The information presented at this CME 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.

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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.

Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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

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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 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 Attendance
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