EVENT INFO
15 JUNE - 13 JULY 2020
Mondays and Thursdays
12:00 NN to 1:00 PM (LIVE)
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM (REPLAY)
Webinar via Zoom
9 culturally-contextualized & COVID-19-integrated ELNEC Modules
Limited slots only for nurses, doctors, and allied health care professionals
with Digital Certificate accredited by the AACN ELNEC
FREE REGISTRATION*
Kindly register through this link.
*Please answer the pre & post-test. Exams provided in this webinar series are collected and evaluated. Certificate and pre-recorded video shall be e-mailed once all exams and feedback are answered.
Participants with successful registration will receive the Zoom invitation link via email 1day before the event.
I. Rationale
At a time when healthcare resources and hospitals are under great pressure, and the unyielding wall of our frontline health care workers is under daily hammering, the treatment of those patients with refractory illness becomes even more complex.
The primary care provider or attending team faces the added responsibility of difficult decision-making. Constant critical care communication to a patient diagnosed with CoViD-19 and those close to them is found to be even more necessary, but is difficult to perform. And, in our country, rendering a prognosis and a follow through with a palliative plan of care is becoming a demand.
This is where we, as palliative care providers and ELNEC trainers, can help support fellow health care workers to relieve these substantial concerns. This is where this ELNEC webinar series, culturally contextualized and CoViD-19 integrated, can become of vital support.
The fundamentals of this webinar series are based from the internationally accepted End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), a joint training program between the City of Hope Medical Center and the American Association of the Colleges of Nursing.
Contents of the course include an overview of CoViD-19, discussions on the physiological, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs of the patients and their families, communication processes between patients, families and health care providers, and ethical issues that are commonly encountered when caring for a dying patient. Additional information on professional challenges such as compassion fatigue and caring for self are also included.
This serves as a pandemic-integrated training of nurses in critical palliative and hospice care, conducted as part of the Leadership for H.O.P.E (Hospice Opportunity for Patient Empowerment) Educational Program of The Ruth Foundation.
II. Objectives of the Course
This activity aims to enable participants to understand & discuss palliative & hospice care concepts during the CoVid-19 pandemic and be able to apply them to their daily nursing care activities.
III. Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing the webinar series, the participants shall be able to:
1. Discuss the need for palliative and end-of-life care for patients and families who are diagnosed with CoViD-19
2. Effectively communicate and hold critical conversations with dying patients and their families
3. Recognize the common signs and symptoms experienced by CoViD-19 patients
4. Appropriately manage the common critical care symptoms including pain
5. Provide bereavement support for patients and families
6. Recognize and manage burn out, compassion fatigue, & moral distress in themselves
IV. Contents
The activity shall cover the following topics:
Module 1: Introduction to CoViD-19
Module 2: Communication during the CoViD-19 Pandemic
Module 3: Symptom Management
Module 4: Final Hours
Module 5: Ethical Considerations
Module 6: Psychosocial & Spiritual Care
Module 7: Loss, Grief, & Bereavement
Module 8: The “New Normal”
Module 9: Self-Care
V. Methodology
The methodologies that shall be employed will be:
Online Webinars
Online Registration & Pre-test (pre-test is a must to be considered registered)
TRF ELNEC CoViD-19 Webinar Series
Pre-recorded video and certificate shall be sent via email IN EXCHANGE FOR filled out online feedback form.