Proper Completion and Understanding of Completing Death Certificates Using ERDS
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Target Audience
All healthcare professionals will benefit from this activity
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the proper way to fill out a death certificate
- Describe how to correctly identify the cause of death
- Review the Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS)
Catherine Watson, DNP, CRNP
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Critical Care Medicine/Intensivist Department
UPMC Hamot
Karin Wickwire, DNP, CRNP, SANE-A, SANE-P
CRNP/Forensic Coordinator, Departments of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine--UPMC Hamot
CRNP, Division of Child Advocacy, Erie CARE Clinic--UPMC Children’s Hospital
President, Pennsylvania Chapter of the IAFN
IAFN Board of Directors, Director at Large
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.
ACCREDITATION
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PHYSICIAN (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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NURSING (CNE)
A maximum of .25 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.
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
- 0.25 AAPA Category I CME
- 0.25 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.
- 0.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 0.25 Attendance
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