CCE: Living Your Best Life: Empowered Conversations for End of Life Issues (6/13 Middlesex)

Thursday, June 13, 2019, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Middlesex County Fire Academy, 1001 Fire Academy Drive

This activity will provide learners with strategies for assisting consumers with navigating end of life issues including initiating conversations, use of tools in the field, and different forms of grief associated with end of life issues. Self care for professionals will also be discussed. 

1. Discuss varied aspects involved with end of life planning including Advance Care Planning, medical, financial, and legal concerns and resources available to support consumers with those issues.
2. Learn strategies including how to initiate and maintain productive conversations addressing personal values and end of life preferences that are culturally sensitive.
3. Demonstrate understanding of two tools used for end of life conversations and advance care planning like Go Wish and Five Wishes.
4. Review complicated grief including anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss including how that impacts end of life conversations.
5. Identify ways to engage in self-care related to secondary impact of assisting consumers with end of life issues

Registration Fee: Registration for this program is by invite-only by The Division of Aging Services.  There is no cost to attend the program, but there is a $25 fee to receive your CE Certificate.

After the program is over, attendees will receive an email invitation to complete an online activity evaluation.  When attendees complete the evaluation, they will be able to pay for and download their CE Certificates.

Questions?  Contact Monica Townsend at (732) 235-4356.

The COPSA program proudly thanks the NJ Division of Aging Services for their support for this activity.

 

 

In support of improving patient care, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nurses: This activity is awarded 5.75 contact hours. (60 minute CH). Nurses should claim only those contact hours actually spent participating in the activity.

Certified Counselors:  Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6198. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (5.75 Clock Hours).

Social Workers (The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners):  This program is approved for social work continuing education hours by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in accordance with New Jersey administrative code 13:44G-6.4 and recognized by The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners.  This program is approved for 5.75 general continuing education hours.

Disclosure Declarations

CE Reviewer:

In order to help ensure content objectivity, independence and fair balance, and to ensure that the content is aligned with the interest of the public , UBHC Center for Continuing Education has resolved all potential real conflicts of interest through content review by a non-conflicted, qualified reviewer.  This activity was peer-reviewed for relevance, accuracy of content, and balance of presentation by:

Stephanie Marcello, PhD

Chief Psychologist, Behavioral Research and Training Institute, and Director, Rutgers Health UBHC, Piscataway, New Jersey 

In accordance with the disclosure policies of Rutgers and to conform with discipline professional contact hour and FDA guidelines individuals in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose this activity participants:  1) the existence of any relevant financial relationship with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, with the exception of non-profit or government organizations and non-health care related companies, within the past 12 months; and 2) the identification of a commercial product/device that is unlabeled for use of an investigational use of a product/device not yet approved.

Faculty

The following faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Mary Catherine Lundquist, MA, Div BA

Monica Townsend, BS, MPA

Planners

The following planners have no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Stephanie Marcello, PhD

Ravi Maharajh, EdS, LPC

Kathryn Burton, Ed.M.,DRCC

Laura Burns, LCSW 

Leonard Estrada, LCSW

Zariya Burgess, MSN, RN

Off-Label Investigational Use: None to be discussed

For ADA Accommodations, please contact: (732) 235-4356

ANCC Contact Hours (5.75 hours), General Attendance (5.75 hours), LPC/LAC: NBCC CE Clock Hours (5.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (5.75 hours), Social Worker: NJBSWE CE Credits (5.75 hours)

Rutgers UBHC has received no commercial support for this activity.