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ForwardNavigating Grief and Suicide as a Healthcare Provider
This presentation provides education regarding how to navigate the complexities of suicidality and associated grief responses for people working in healthcare. Various types of grief are defined and explained to provide foundational understanding of a typical grief experience. Understanding the different types of grief, such as anticipatory grief, complicated grief, or disenfranchised grief, helps identify the unique experiences of those affected by suicidality. Further education is provided to introduce careful assessment of risk factors and appropriate intervention, as well as special considerations for grief associated with suicide. This education concludes with identifying strategies, techniques and resources for supporting bereaved clients, colleagues and other involved healthcare workers.
Target Audience
Nurse
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
1.) Recognize risk factors for suicide in the hospice population
2.) Learn to assess patients expressing suicidal ideation and when to make the call to the psychiatrist
3). Understand the differential diagnoses associated with expressing feelings of wanting to die
4.) Recognize the impact of suicide on staff.
5). Learn methods of dealing with adverse reactions to loss.
6.) Recognize the impact of suicide on the families of patients with advanced illness
7.) Learn about implementation of suicide prevention programs in hospice
This presentation provides education regarding how to navigate the complexities of suicidality and associated grief responses for people working in healthcare. Various types of grief are defined and explained to provide foundational understanding of a typical grief experience. Understanding the different types of grief, such as anticipatory grief, complicated grief, or disenfranchised grief, helps identify the unique experiences of those affected by suicidality. Further education is provided to introduce careful assessment of risk factors and appropriate intervention, as well as special considerations for grief associated with suicide. This education concludes with identifying strategies, techniques and resources for supporting bereaved clients, colleagues and other involved healthcare workers.
Elizabeth Schandelmeier, LCSW, APHSW-C, FT
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 2.0 continuing education credits.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 2.0 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Education activity is 2.0 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
Contact: Ed Lewis at [email protected] for questions regarding registration
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