Interprofessional Webinar Series in Palliative Care

The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is pleased to offer our 2018 webinar series. Each palliative care webinar offers 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 1.0 Nursing continuing education (CE) credits. Selected webinars offer CE credits for social workers and pharmacists.

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Ethical and Legal Issues in Palliative Care (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on consent, futility, and tube feedings

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Opioids and Other Analgesics (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on side effects, optimizing analgesic outcomes, and substance abuse

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Opioids and Other Analgesics (Package 2)

on-demand package

3 webinars on adjuvant analgesics, methadone, and medical cannabis

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Palliative Care for Diseases Other than Cancer (Package 1)

on-demand package

3 webinars on CHF, cardiac devices, and COPD

$75 $65
Individual

Upon request
Group

Palliative Care for Diseases Other than Cancer (Package 2)

on-demand package

4 webinars on dementia, post-stroke, ALS, and Parkinson's

$100 $85
Individual

Upon request
Group

Prognostication

on-demand package

2 webinars on prognostication for patients with cancer and other chronic advanced illnesses

$50 $45
Individual

Upon request
Group

Symptoms Other than Pain

on-demand package

4 webinars on nausea and constipation, anorexia, dyspnea, and delirium

$100 $85
Individual

Upon request
Group

Communication with Patients and Families at End-of-Life

on-demand webinar

This webinar for nurses will review communication skills needed for the clinical practice of palliative care and end-of-life nursing care.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Betty Hilleman, MBA, MSN, RN, CHPN

Hospice 101: Levels of Care Across Settings

on-demand webinar

This webinar will help social workers acquire the knowledge and skills to define different levels of care in palliative care and hospice and identify the role of the social worker.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Abby Nathanson, LCSW, ACS

Teamwork and the Interdisciplinary Team

on-demand webinar

This webinar will allow social workers to acquire the knowledge to identify the pros and cons of interdisciplinary teamwork, identify the role of the social worker, and incorporate best practices in teamwork and conflict resolution.

$25
Individual

Upon request
Group

Speaker: Christine Kucinskis, LCSW, CSW-G, ACHP-SW

Role of the Social Worker in Advance Care Planning

live:  6/21/18 12:30 PM ET, in 0 days

This webinar will allow social workers to acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and address difficult decisions and manage conversations in end-of-life care.

Speaker: Adam Schoenfarber, LCSW

Spiritual and Cultural Issues: Nursing Assessment and Interventions

live:  7/19/18 12:30 PM ET, in 28 days

The goal of this webinar is to increase the knowledge of nurses in how the spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices of our patients and families impact care.

Speaker: Wanda Youdelman, RN, MSN, CHPN

Embracing Cultural Humility in End-of-Life Care

live:  7/26/18 12:30 PM ET, in 35 days

This webinar will help social workers to acquire the knowledge to identify and address cultural diversity in hospice and palliative care, identify the role of the social worker within the team, and incorporate best practices in assessment and intervention.

Speaker: Christine Kucinskis, LCSW, CSW-G, ACHP-SW

Professor’s Rounds: Integrating Palliative and Critical Care

live:  9/06/18 4PM ET, in 77 days

This webinar will increase your understanding of the principles and practices that facilitate high quality primary and specialty care in the ICU and review the existing evidence for specific approaches to integrating palliative care in the ICU.

Speaker: J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH

Nursing Care in the Final Hours of Life

live:  9/20/18 12:30 PM ET, in 91 days

This webinar will educate nurses in clinical skills and professional mindfulness necessary to provide a therapeutic presence for a patient and family as death nears.

Speaker: Annette Feierman, RN, MSN, CPHQ, CHPN

Professor’s Rounds: Ensuring the Delivery of High Quality Care Through the Cancer Trajectory

live:  10/04/18 4PM ET, in 105 days

To understand the importance of symptom management and communication about prognosis and end of life care preferences in patients with advanced cancer and the role that palliative care can play in addressing these important aspects of cancer care.

Speaker: Jennifer Temel, MD

The Role of the Nurse in Advance Directives

live:  10/18/18 12:30 PM ET, in 119 days

This webinar will help nurses gain an introductory understanding of the social changes that have occurred since the enactment of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) in 1991, specifically the advance directive.

Speaker: Marilyn Bookbinder, RN, PhD, FPCN

Pediatric Palliative Care

live:  10/25/18 12:30 PM ET, in 126 days

This webinar will allow social workers to acquire the knowledge and skills to incorporate best practices in assessment, intervention, and referral of patients in pediatric palliative care.

Speaker: Linda Stertz, LCSW

Caring for Family Caregivers While Caring for Ourselves

live:  11/01/18 12:30 PM ET, in 133 days

This webinar will provide social workers with an overview of the theory, research, and best practices related to working with family caregivers in palliative care and hospice.

Speaker: Myra Glajchen, DSW

Professor’s Rounds: Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy: Treating Despair at the End of Life

live:  11/13/18 4PM ET, in 145 days

Participants will be introduced to MCP, a novel, existentially oriented psychotherapy which focuses on sustaining and enhancing meaning in advanced cancer patients.

Speaker: William Breitbart, MD, FAPA, FAPM, FAPOS

Integrating Complementary Modalities of Care

live:  11/29/18 12:30 PM ET, in 161 days

CAM is a broad domain that encompasses health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs. The purpose of this webinar is to describe complementary modalities of care in advanced illness.

Speaker: Mary Drayton, PhD, ANP-BC N.D.

Care of the Family During End-of-Life Vigils

live:  12/11/18 12:30 PM ET, in 173 days

The purpose of this webinar is to assist nurses to define and explore the structure and meaning of family vigils by providing current qualitative research on the topic.

Speaker: Colleen Fleming-Damon, PhD, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FT