Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Lisa Rosenzweig, PhD
Bereavement Coordinator and Psychologist
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care

Purpose: The purpose of the webinar is to 1) increase clinicians’ awareness of patients’ and loved ones’ needs for closure in the clinical relationship, and 2) provide guidance on how to meet these needs.

Objectives:  

1. Outline and discuss the closure needs of patients and their loved ones in palliative and hospice care
2. Normalize clinicians’ challenges of engaging with closure activities
3. Provide concrete guidance on supporting patients’ and loved ones’ closure needs prior to death
4. Provide concrete guidance on expressing condolences to loved ones after a death

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care 2024-2025 Interprofessional Webinar Series On-Demand, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 10/10/2024 to 10/10/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session Goodbyes and Condolences in Palliative and Hospice Care is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Elective credit.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: December 7, 2023

Expiration Date: October 10, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Lisa Rosenzweig, PhD, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/