Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Steven Krul, LCSW, CJCS, SIFI
Hospice Bereavement Counselor
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care
New York, NY

Purpose: By having an awareness of the symptoms of compassion fatigue, care providers can take steps to foster balance and sustained compassion by focusing on self-care and support.

Objectives:  

1. Recognize the symptoms of compassion fatigue in order to take steps to foster balance and sustained compassion
2. Implement skills necessary to practice sustainable self-care
3. Recognize the link between a rise in deaths in your caseload and compassion fatigue
4. Manage the grieving process in order to better support your patients, their families, and yourself

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS 2024-2025 Interprofessional Webinar Series - Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 09/26/2024 to 09/25/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session Strategies to Overcome Compassion Fatigue While Servicing Grieving Families 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 19, 2024

Expiration Date: December 18, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:
Steven Krul, LCSW, CJCS, SIFI, 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/