Purpose

The purpose of RTS Bereavement Training is to provide insight, knowledge, and hand-on classroom experience to develop the skills needed to support families whose baby has died.

Objectives:

1.  Discuss the role of interdiciplinary teams in caring for grieving families.

2.  Provide a theoretical framework for understanding attachment, grief, and loss.

3.  Relate grief theory to caring for bereaved parents.

4.  Demonstrate communication skills helpful for interacting with grieving families.

5.  Describe appropriate interventions for responding to someone who has had an early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or newborn death.

6.  Explain how children, family, and friends are affected by perinatal loss.

7.  Provide protocols and guidelines for consistent care and follow up after discharge.

8.  Identify needs of caregivers and describe ways to care for them.

The purpose of RTS Coordinator Training is to provide insight and knowledge to develop the skills necessary to implement an interdisciplinary perinatal bereavement program.

Objectives:

1.  Discuss a framework for successful RTS bereavement care implementation.

2.  Describe elements of change theory.

3.  Identify an effective approach to conflict management.

4.  Identify four characteristics of adult learners.

5.  Describe useful strategies for effective presentations.

6.  Identify four techniques for maintaining administrative support.

The purpose of Compassionate Bereavement Care - Track I is to provide an introductory to grief theory and the process of grieve.

Objectives:

1.  Define/describe normal grief       

2.  List four phases of bereavement according to Davidson

3.  List Worden’s four tasks of mourning

4.  Describe at least two components of Swanson’s Theory of Caring

5.  Relate personal/professional history of loss to care of the bereaved

6.  Demonstrate a skill used in communicating with the bereaved

The purpose of Compassionate Bereavement Care - Track II is to provide resources for development and enhancement of bereavement care programs.

Objectives:

1.  List three of the eight steps in program planning.

2.  Describe two tools for collecting data before implementing a bereavement

     program.

3.  Define the tasks of at least one member of an interdisciplinary bereavement team.

4.  Develop a work plan for “first tasks” in developing/enhancing a bereavement program.

5.  Utilize an adult learning strategy in providing staff education.

6.  Identify options for follow-up.

In order to receive contact hours, nurses, social workers, and chaplains must be present for 16 hours of 2-day RTS Bereavement Training and eight hours of Coordinator Training.

Education Credit

Nursing Credits

Gundersen Lutheran, Inc., La Crosse, WI, is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #12245.

Social Work Credits

Gundersen Lutheran, provider #1089, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, phone 1-800-225-6880, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Gundersen Lutheran maintains responsibility for the program.

Provider approved for the Board of Behavior Sciences for the State of California, provider #934.

Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Other Credits

Gundersen Lutheran, Inc., La Crosse, WI, is a provider for the National Association for Catholic Chaplains offering 16.8 contact hours for RTS Bereavement Training, 8.4for RTS Coordinator Training, 8.4 for Compassionate Bereavement Care - Track I, and 8.4 for Compassionate Bereavement Care - Track II.

Other disciplines will receive a certificate of attendance.

Content experts : Rana Limbo, PhD, APRN, BC; Madonna Daley, MS, RN; Diane Midland, BSW, MS; Rev. Mark Hart, DMin, ACPE Supervisor, BCC.

Planning committee: Rana Limbo, PhD, APRN, BC; Madonna Daley, MS, RN; Diane Midland, BSW, MS; Rev. Mark Hart, DMin, ACPE Supervisor, BCC, Laurie Bushek.

Speakers vary due to program locations. Speaker credentials available upon request.

Post test and evaluation required for contact hours.

Presenters claim no conflict of interest.

ADEC Recognition

This educational offering is recognized by the Association for Death Education and Counseling to meet the thanatology-related contact hours to be Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement.

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