Understanding Grief and the Needs of Mourning

November 29, 2023

Clinical Teams lack understanding and skills needed to adequately support grieving persons at end of life and during the grief journey.

This activity will enable the professional healthcare team to provide quality support to grieving persons. The information provided will increase the knowledge level and skill set necessary to confidently assist grieving persons.

Target Audience

Nurse

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

Presentation will do the following:

Dispel misconceptions of grief.

Explore the feelings associated with loss.

Define the six needs of mourning and 10 touchstones of the grief journey.

Help participants to support grieving persons by understanding the difference between reconciliation of grief and resolution of grief.

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/10/2023
Course expires: 
02/29/2024
Event starts: 
11/29/2023 - 5:00pm EST
Event ends: 
11/29/2023 - 8:00pm EST
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Clinical Teams lack understanding and skills needed to adequately support grieving persons at end of life and during the grief journey.

This activity will enable the professional healthcare team to provide quality support to grieving persons. The information provided will increase the knowledge level and skill set necessary to confidently assist grieving persons.

Teams Meeting
Altoona, PA
United States

Dr. Allen Wolfelt

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 3.0 continuing education credits.


Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3.0 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Education activity is 3.0 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

  • 3.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 3.00 ASWB
  • 3.00 Attendance
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