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Courses & Workshops

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To begin, kindly choose the course you wish to attend from our diverse selection. While some courses may not have scheduled dates, we encourage you to contact CommunityEducation@HopeHealthCo.org if you're interested in a course not currently scheduled. We are continuously expanding our course offerings and invite you to check back for updates. Furthermore, clinicians have the opportunity to earn educational credits through our programs.

Please note: all times are Eastern Time (US).

Advance Directives for Professionals

During this course we will discuss the important information that all healthcare professionals need to know so that they can have successful and productive conversations with their patients about advance directives.
CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Advance Directives: What Families Should Know

Making medical decisions can be difficult when facing any illness. That is why an advance directive is so important to have. In this workshop we will discuss what advance directives are, who needs to have them and more.

Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at End of Life

This lecture provides accurate and evidence-based information about the use of artificial nutrition and hydration at the end of life as well as tips for communication and decision making. Participants will be able to identify common fears, obstacles and preconceived notions about food and nutrition/hydration at end of life. They will understand the normal dying process and be able to help provide a recommendation including the option of a time limited trial.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

At the Bedside of the Dying Patient

This program will provide clinicians with an understanding of the changes that occur in care needs and symptom burden in the last days, weeks, and months of life. Participants will be able to identify which interventions to provide to ease those burdens on both the patient and the family.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Cardiac Disease and Hospice: When is Your Cardiac Patient Eligible for Hospice?

This 1-hour program offers participants a closer look at hospice eligibility for patients with cardiac disease. We will discuss the guidelines set forth by Medicare, how to identify when your cardiac patient meets these criteria and how hospice services will benefit these patients.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia

This session of our Caregiver Confidence Education Series will review the characteristics of each stage of dementia, discuss common challenges in providing care, and identify communication and care tips for your daily interactions with your loved one living with dementia.

Caring for a Patient with Dementia: Disease Progression and Care Tips

April 2, 2024 • 10:00 am
May 14, 2024 • 10:00 am

In this course we will identify characteristics of each stage of dementia, discuss common challenges in providing care and identify communication and care tips to improve our daily interactions with patients living with dementia.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Comfort Feeding

Develop an understanding of the non-verbal cues associated with comfort feeding. Learn what makes food appealing, how to regulate food temperature and best techniques for hand feeding.

Comfort for Caregivers: Strategies for Dealing with Caregiver Stress

Caring for a loved one strains even the most resilient people. In this workshop, we will discuss strategies for dealing with caregiver stress and learn effective ways to preserve your own health and well-being.

Complex Care Conversations

March 19, 2024 • 8:00 am
April 23, 2024 • 8:00 am
May 21, 2024 • 8:00 am
June 18, 2024 • 8:00 am
July 16, 2024 • 8:00 am

Complex Care Conversations is a day-long interactive, small-group program for clinicians who treat individuals dealing with serious, progressive illnesses. Participants will learn how to navigate goals-of-care conversations to elicit patients’ values and preferences in a mutually transformative way for clinicians and patients when time matters most.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW, CME available for physicians

Dementia and Hospice: When is Your Patient Living with Dementia Eligible for Hospice?

This program offers participants a focused look at Medicare hospice guidelines when the terminal diagnosis is a form of dementia. We will discuss the qualifying criteria as well as contributing factors that lead to eligibility for hospice care.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Dementia Symptoms and Behavior Changes

This 1.5-hour course will discuss 10 of the most common symptoms and behaviors faced by a person living with dementia and their family. Gain insight from the experts as to why dementia symptoms and behaviors occur and a non-pharmacological intervention to utilize when they do occur.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Dementia: Understanding the Aging Brain

March 26, 2024 • 10:00 am
April 24, 2024 • 12:00 pm

This 2-hour presentation is intended to educate healthcare professionals on the effects of dementia on the brain and the five senses, how to apply this knowledge to care provided and how to utilize the positive physical approach to connect with the person prior to providing care.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Designing Meaningful Dementia Activities

Understanding the person living with dementia’s GEM state, personality type and life history, will allow for adjustments to the activity that provide a sense of meaning and joy through their participation in that activity. In this program we will discuss how to identify the GEM state and activities that fit.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Dispelling the Myths of Hospice Care

Some of the most significant barriers to a patient with a terminal illness receiving hospice care are misperceptions held by their families and healthcare team alike. In this class we will address your concerns as well as the most common misperception about hospice care.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Effective Communication for Healthcare Professionals

Our communication techniques are key to the success of each conversation we have with our patients and their families. In this program we will look at our own communication styles and techniques. We will also look at how we can identify those of the people we are communicating with to get the most out of each conversation.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Establishing and Maintaining Ethics and Boundaries

March 21, 2024 • 10:00 am
April 10, 2024 • 12:00 pm

This course will broadly discuss the importance of ethical behavior and maintaining professional boundaries in the workplace.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Grief and Healing

April 8, 2024 • 9:30 am
May 7, 2024 • 5:00 pm

In this program we will explore how grief manifests and changes over time. We will discuss assessments and interventions to support grievers as well as ways in which we can help them find meaning in the experience.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Having the Conversation

In this 1-hour course, participants will learn how to best initiate difficult conversations about goals of care, advance directives and terminal illness. We will discuss methods to determine an individual and family’s wishes as well as how to introduce hospice services.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Holiday Tips for the Dementia Caregiver

The holidays can be challenging for anyone but add in the complications of communication and altered senses that come with dementia and they can be incredibly difficult. This session of our Dementia Caregiver Education Series will discuss situations that can occur and tips for handling them if they do.

Home Care, Palliative Care, and Hospice: Making the Right Choice

When caring for a loved one requires more than we can do on our own, we need to know what services are out there to help us. In this workshop we will review the options available at all stages of illness, how they differ and how to know which one is the right choice for your loved one.

Hospice Symptom Management Part 1 & Part 2

This 1-hour, two-part course provides a comprehensive review of the most common symptoms that cause discomfort at end of life. You’ll receive assessment tools and case scenarios to promote group interaction and discussion. Part 1 focuses on assessing and treating pain, dyspnea and anxiety. In Part 2 you’ll learn how to assess and treat nausea/vomiting, delirium, agitation and constipation.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Hospice: A Special Way of Caring

Learn the unique benefits of hospice care, when a patient qualifies and how the clinical team supports individuals and families in this 1-hour course.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Late-Stage Parkinson’s Disease and End-of-life Care

April 15, 2024 • 10:00 am
May 16, 2024 • 12:00 pm

In this program we will take a closer look at late-stage Parkinson’s disease in relation to mortality, risk factors, and caregiver burden, as well as benefits and eligibility for palliative and hospice care.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Managing Challenging Behaviors

This interactive program focuses on recognizing common behavioral triggers, and developing techniques for adapting our own reactions to achieve more positive outcomes with combative or resistant individuals. Techniques adapted from Teepa Snow training on caring for patients with dementia.

Managing Family Dynamics at End of Life

April 30, 2024 • 12:00 pm
May 30, 2024 • 10:00 am

In this program we will discuss challenges that healthcare professionals face due to difficult family dynamics as well as five strategies for managing family behaviors and discord among family members.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Managing Pain at End of Life

This 1-hour course reviews best practices for identifying and managing pain. Utilizing case scenarios participants will learn to formulate an effective plan of care. Discussions will explore barriers to adequate pain management including the myths and facts about morphine.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Meaningful Activities for a Loved One with Dementia

March 19, 2024 • 12:00 pm

Being able to participate in daily activities that contribute to the family or household provides meaning and joy to our loved ones despite their dementia. In this session we will discuss how understanding which stage of dementia your loved one is in will allow you to include them in activities that fit their abilities. This workshop is part of our Caregiver Confidence Education Series for family caregivers.

MOLST: How and When to Complete

This session focuses on explaining when it is appropriate to complete a MOLST (Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment), how to complete it, section by section, and why it is important to have one.

My Family Member Has Dementia: Helping Young People Maintain Their Relationships with Their Loved One

This 1-hour course is designed to help adults identify ways that dementia affects the relationship between children/teens and their loved one living with dementia. It provides effective communication techniques, educational opportunities and coping mechanisms to support the child in maintaining their connection with their loved one throughout the disease process.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Palliative Care and Hospice: A Perfect Partnership

March 18, 2024 • 12:00 pm
April 16, 2024 • 10:00 am
May 23, 2024 • 12:00 pm

This 1-hour course will provide practitioners with a detailed understanding of the differences between palliative care and hospice and how they benefit our patients when utilized as partners.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Palliative Care: Living Your Best Life

Explore how palliative care can improve quality of life by anticipating, preventing and treating symptoms within a supportive family centered approach to care in this 1-hour course.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Pediatric Hospice: The Psychosocial Aspects of Care

In this 1.5-hour course you will receive insight into the psychosocial aspects of caring for pediatric patients at end-of-life. With tips on how to communicate best with the child and their family, you will leave with a bolstered confidence in providing care to such a special population.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Pediatric Pearls for Non-Pediatric Professionals

This course will provide non-pediatric clinicians expert advice on how to observe and assess pediatric patients. It will also provide you with explanations of the most common pediatric conditions leading to end-of-life care for this population and tools for communicating with both the child and their parents.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospice and Palliative Care

In this program we will review how racism influences medical practice, identify action steps for healthcare workers to combat racism and discriminatory practices, and identify how our organizations can work to combat these inequities in healthcare.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW, CME available for physicians

The Grief Journey of the Dementia Caregiver

April 16, 2024 • 12:00 pm

In this workshop we will discuss how grief changes for dementia caregivers at each stage of the disease—from anticipatory grief to bereavement. Identifying the caregiver’s greatest area of stress will also be a part of the discussion. This workshop is part of our Caregiver Confidence Education Series for family caregivers.

The Grief Journey of the Dementia Caregiver

In this class we will discuss how grief changes for dementia caregivers at each stage of the disease—from anticipatory grief to bereavement. We’ll also examine how to best provide grief intervention and support for caregivers and their families.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Understanding Parkinson's Disease

April 4, 2024 • 12:00 pm
May 8, 2024 • 5:00 pm

This program will offer clinicians a better understanding of this disease. We will discuss how it differs from other neurological disorders, diagnosis, complications, treatments and the different stages of this disease. We will also answer some of the most common questions that are asked of the medical community.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Understanding the Grief Process: The Cumulative Loss of COVID-19

This course will examine the nature of the normal grief process, how it has been altered by COVID-19, and how grief support interventions have changed in response to it.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Understanding the Health Disparities of LGBT Older Adults

March 28, 2024 • 12:00 pm
April 24, 2024 • 5:00 pm
May 22, 2024 • 12:00 pm

This program will provide participants with insight into the health disparities of the LGBT community, barriers to obtaining optimal healthcare, and tips on how we can make their healthcare experiences more affirming.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Unique End-of-Life Needs of LGBT Older Adults

May 1, 2024 • 12:00 pm
May 28, 2024 • 10:00 am

This class will look at the issues faced by LGBT older adults nearing end of life. We will discuss strategies and resources for improving care of our LGBT elders.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

Virtual Dementia Tour

The insight provided by the Virtual Dementia Tour® (VDT) will change how you interact with memory-impaired individuals. Research supports that quality of life improves when caregivers and professionals are better educated and equipped to address the challenges associated with disease progression.

CE available for RN/LPN and SW

When Is Your Loved One with Dementia Eligible for Hospice?

February 20, 2024 • 12:00 pm

How do you know when your loved one with dementia is eligible for hospice services? This workshop in our Dementia Caregiver Education Series offers a focused look at Medicare hospice guidelines and the qualifying criteria as well as contributing factors that lead to eligibility for hospice care.

How Can We Help? Contact us at CommunityEducation@HopeHealthCo.org or (800) 338-6555.

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