Hospice & Palliative Care



Speakers:
Terry Altilio, LCSW, APHSW-C
Palliative Social Work Consultant

Vickie Leff, MSW, LCSW, APHSW-C
Palliative Care Consultant and Trainer

Christine Beamon, LCSW, CCM, APHSW-C
Palliative Medicine Social Worker
White Plains Hospital, NY

Purpose: This webinar applies the ethical principle of “dignity of risk” to clinical practice in serious illness care, exploring cognitive and emotional aspects of self and situations that inform decisions to take risks and intervene at micro, mezzo, and macro levels to impact issues related to social justice, social drivers of health, and institutional hierarchies.

Objectives:


1. Define the dignity of risk principle as it relates to the work of healthcare clinicians and aspects of practice, such as educational models, institutional policies, and political structures that impact patient experience throughout the care continuum
2. Provide three examples of how to integrate the “dignity of risk” principle in work at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice
3. Recognize the link of the historical evolution of palliative and hospice care to professional identities as specialists and primary clinicians in order to inform the discernment necessary in decisions related to risk

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS 2025-2026 Interprofessional Webinar Series – Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 10/02/2025 to 10/01/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session The Dignity of Risk: Taking Professional Leaps Into the Spider Web 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 an approved provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver 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:
Individual: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: October 2, 2025

Expiration Date: October 1, 2026 (for physicians and non-physicians); March 31, 2028 (for nurses); January 31, 2028 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:
Terry Altilio, LCSW, APHSW-C, Vickie Leff, MSW, LCSW, APHSW-C, and Christine Beamon, LCSW, CCM, APHSW-C, have 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/