Grief and Loss: Caregivers and Family
Hours: 0.50
This course describes caring for people who are grieving a loss due to death. It suggests ways to cope with emotional, social, and spiritual responses to death and discusses specific challenges and coping strategies for grieving caregivers. The goal of this course is to enable non-licensed direct care workers in post-acute care settings to help families and themselves cope with grief.
This course describes caring for people who are grieving a loss due to death. It suggests ways to cope with emotional, social, and spiritual responses to death and discusses specific challenges and coping strategies for grieving caregivers. The goal of this course is to enable non-licensed direct care workers in post-acute care settings to help families and themselves cope with grief.
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
This is not an accredited course for professional license renewal. Florida CNAs may use this inservice toward meeting their annual inservice requirement.
This activity is approved for 0.50 contact hours.
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (ALL Direct Care Workers)
Relias Learning, LLC is approved as a Curriculum Developer by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. This activity is approved for 0.5000 contact hours for all WA State Direct Care Workers. Training Provider Code: WA0624. CE Approval Code: CO2236617
Identify ways to help grieving families cope after a death.
Recognize appropriate ways to cope with loss after a person in your care dies.
Outline:
ReferencesSubject Matter Expert: Susan Heinzerling, BSN, RN, CHPN
Susan Heinzerling earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a Master of Life Sciences in physiology from North Carolina State University. She became a doctoral candidate in immunology at the University of South Alabama. Her research experiences in the biomedical sciences led to an interest in evidence-based practices. Ms. Heinzerling began her nursing career as a medical/surgical nurse. Renal patients in acute care with multiple chronic conditions and repeated hospitalizations inspired her practice of hospice nursing. She has worked as a hospice admissions nurse and a hospice RN case manager in both a large urban setting and a rural community. Disclosure: Susan Heinzerling, BSN, RN, CHPN has no Relevant Financial or Non-Financial Relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.
The target audience for this course is: Direct Care Workers; in the following settings: Post-Acute Care.
Asynchronous/Online Distance Learning; please see certificate details for specifics on delivery format.
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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
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