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ForwardProviding Psychosocial Supports to the Children of Adult Patients
Working with an adult patient population, the Clinical Care Coordination and Discharge Planning department staff do not have much experience with skills/interventions focusing on the children that are a part of our patient families.
This activity will help provide more education/skills to utilize and thus ease the comfort level of staff when working with families with children. It will also provide an opportunity to distribute more pertinent resources to these families.
Target Audience
Nurse
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
- Educate on evidence based best practices for supporting children of adult patients
- Discuss clinical interventions for case study patients
- Increase overall confidence in supporting families with children within the scope of clinical care coordination and discharge planning
Working with an adult patient population, the Clinical Care Coordination and Discharge Planning department staff do not have much experience with skills/interventions focusing on the children that are a part of our patient families.
This activity will help provide more education/skills to utilize and thus ease the comfort level of staff when working with families with children. It will also provide an opportunity to distribute more pertinent resources to these families.
Amber Terwilliger, MS, CCLS
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.
Social Work (ASWB)
This program is offered for 1.0 hours of social work continuing education.
Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 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
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC 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