RTS Bereavement Workshop

Target Audience

 

Nurses, Social Workers, Funeral Directors, LMHP's, Clergy, Chaplains, Genetic Counselors, Ultrasonographers interested in bereavement training courses.

Cost

 

Value: $500
Cost: $200 with promo code: 60PD

Methodist and Jennie Ed employees please use the 2013 health system promo code for a 100% discount.

Perinatal Outreach sites please use the 2013 code for your discounted price.

Course Description

 

Purpose: To assist health professionals in developing skills when interacting with those who will or have experienced the loss in pregnancy or of a newborn.

Participant will be able to:

• Discuss the role of interdisciplinary teams in caring for bereaved parents and families

• List three theoretical frameworks that promote understanding of perinatal death

• Define "being in relationship"

• Describe how to offer options to families

• Describe two examples of how caregivers can use ritual when a baby dies

• List two spiritual tasks

• Provide three examples of honoring relationship between parent and child

• Identify strategies to incorporate RTS standards for bereavement care into clinical practice

• Discuss the roles of keepsakes for a family's grief

• Describe elements of a follow-up phone call

• List three self-care strategies for caregivers

Agenda

Agenda-Day 1
7:45am - 8:00am	Registration
8:00am - 12:00pm	Getting Acquainted and Setting the Stage
	Introduction to relationship in perinatal bereavement care
	Using theoretical frameworks to understand relationship
	Working with bereaved families using guided participation
	Building and maintaining relationship: culture and communication when a baby dies
	Relationship in practice: Giving care (miscarriage)
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm - 4:30pm	Relationship in Practice
	Giving care (ectopic, stillbirth, newborn death), keepsakes, and photography
	Parental Panel Summary of Day 1 and preparation for Day 2
4:30pm	Adjourn
Agenda-Day 2
7:45am - 8:00am	Registration
8:00am - 12:00pm	Reflections on Day 1
	Relationship through spiritual care and ritual
	Maintaining relationship with others (fathers, partners, grandparents, children) and in special circumstances                                             (teen parents, twins, and higher birth order)
	Perinatal Palliative Care
	The central role of hope in decision making
	Respectful disposition and funeral options
	Interconception care, work group-focused approaches to barriers in providing perinatal bereavement care.
	Transferring relationship
	Staying connected and ongoing support
	Social networking
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm - 3:30pm	Moral distress and health care professionals' grief
	Video and discussion
	Relationship-based care as a foundation for caring for yourself and work group
	Wrap up and evaluations
3:30pm	Adjourn

 

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Speakers

 

Abigail Andress, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Denise Carlson, MS, LMHP                                       
Abigail Kutler, MSW 

 

Credit Information

Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development awards educational credit to the disciplines listed below. Each professional is accountable to understand their accrediting/licensing body's standards and requirements. The definitive source of information on continuing education requirements is your state or national regulatory board.

In order to obtain contact hours or CEU's for a continuing education event, participants are required to attend the entire event and return a completed evaluation.

Nursing
14.5 contact hours awarded    Master Code #:   NE10-13C32-202
This includes 0 pharmacology hours for Nurse Practitioners
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Nebraska Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Physicians
The Nebraska Methodist Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.5  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Workers
This offering meets the continuing education criteria for 14.5 clock hours for Nebraska.

Mental Health Practitioners
This offering meets the continuing education criteria for 14.5 clock hours for Nebraska licensed mental health practitioners.

Education Credit
14.5 education hours.  Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development assigns education hours based on 60 minutes of classroom instruction for each offering.  Participants may use these for their professional continuing education hours and toward re-licensure if so approved within the standards and guidelines of their discipline.