Supporting Grieving Families Through the Winter Holidays - 11.30.23

November 30, 2023

Clinical staff currently lack training to effectively support grieving families that experience increased symptoms of grief during the winter months, including weather, holidays and isolation that the season can bring.

Target Audience

Nurse

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

Describe and define grief and supplement this understanding with learning that is specific to winter months.

Identify and address knowledge gaps for meeting families grieving needs in winter months.

Teach techniques to support grieving families.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 ANCC
    UPMC 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
Course opens: 
10/18/2023
Course expires: 
01/31/2024
Event starts: 
11/30/2023 - 4:30pm EST
Event ends: 
11/30/2023 - 6:30pm EST
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Clinical staff currently lack training to effectively support grieving families that experience increased symptoms of grief during the winter months, including weather, holidays and isolation that the season can bring.

Cumberland Village
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Betsy McCrann, LSW

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 ANCC
    UPMC 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
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