Session Summary
This session equips nurses to provide compassionate, dignified pediatric end-of-life care by utilizing palliative principles, effective communication skills and an understanding of family needs. Strategies to support presence, connection and legacy-building are explored. The session also addresses the emotional impact on nurses, offering tools to reduce burnout, build resilience and find meaning in this challenging yet vital work.
Objectives
- Describe effective communication strategies for supporting families of dying children in the hospital.
- Apply evidence-based techniques to provide compassionate end-of-life and bereavement care to families.
- Evaluate personal strategies to prevent burnout, build resilience and find meaning in providing pediatric end-of-life care.
Topics
Palliative/End-of-life Care
Population
Pediatric
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.