Course Code: REL-PAC-ELNEC-PMLGBPPC
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2024
Learning Objectives:
Identify factors that may significantly affect the grief process in children or families.
Describe interventions that may be appropriate to facilitate the grief process.
Determine interventions that you can use to help cope with death anxiety and loss.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Understanding Grief
Meet Melissa
Experiencing Loss
Definitions
Models of Grief
Grief Work Theories
Factors Affecting Grief
Perinatal and Neonatal Loss
Anticipatory Grief
Complicated Grief
Effects of Grief on the Family
Your Role
Review
Summary
Section 3: Responding to Grief
Grief Assessment
Grief Interventions for Families
Grief Interventions for Parents
Grief Interventions for Children
Helping Children Cope
Grief Interventions for Schools
Communicating with the Bereaved
Review
Summary
Section 4: Grief and the Healthcare Professional
Death Anxiety
Cumulative Loss
Maintaining a Sense of Balance
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Instructor: ELNEC Pediatric 2021
The content for this course was revised by Amy Haskamp, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC, CPON, CHPPN.
Amy Haskamp is a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Pediatric Palliative Care Team (PACT) at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health Hospital. She has over 16 years of experience caring for children with cancer before joining PACT in 2014. Working with the oncology population, she became interested in pain management, psychosocial support, and pediatric palliative care. She lectures and teaches at the local, national, and international level, and has been a member of the ELNEC pediatric faculty since 2011. Ms. Haskamp is an active reviewer for pediatric palliative care education and has co-authored several publications on pediatric palliative care.
The content for this course was created by The ELNEC Project Team.
The ELNEC Project, which began in 2000, is a collaboration between the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Washington, DC and the City of Hope, Duarte, CA. For more information about ELNEC, go to www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Nurses; in the following settings: Hospice, Palliative Care.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.