TXNM Hospice Educational Offerings

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS and EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS

Social Worker Education and Training

On-line Training: All of the on-line Training on this page is approved for CE credit by the TX Board of Social Work. All you need is a computer with speakers and Internet Explorer and you can get excellent training while sipping coffee in your pajamas. All speakers are well known professional hospice workers that are experts in their field(s).

Social Worker Bundle Pack:

6 hours of prerecorded multimedia Professional Education with .6 CEUs awarded (.3 are Ethics credits). Taught from leading industry experts. Sign up and start now --->

You will be immediatly redirected to the training after paying. if you have any trouble please email bbaker@txnmhospice.org

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1. "7 Dumb Mistakes Smart People Make" - by Danny Mack
This class is approved for .15 Continuing Education Units
Improve your job performance and accomplish personal and professional goals after learning the seven mistakes that hinder people from accomplishing their professional goals. Become motivated, encouraged and inspired to improve your skills!

Audiences: All

7 Dumb Mistakes Smart People Make

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2. "Companioning" - by Rodney Bolejack
This class is approved for .15 Continuing Education Units
Description: One of the primary concerns of hospice patients is fear of abandonment. Such may occur at several levels, particularly when busy schedules focus our attention on protocols, procedures, and paperwork. This presentation explores "Companioning" as an essential hospice concept. Benefits& Burdens and Barriers & Bridges to creating a shared journey will be examined from professional and intra-personal perspectives. Participants will learn how to apply "Companioning" skills and attitudes to enrich the hospice experience for the patient as well as for the professional.

Audiences: All

Companioning

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3. Children and Grief- by Rodney Bolejack
This class is approved for .15 Continuing Education Units
This presentation is from the 05/02/09 TNMHO conference. Rodney will discuss children and common early experiences, responses to grief, tasks of children in grief, styles of grieving and the role of faith, hope and love. Participants will learn ways to help grieve and heal.

Audience: All
Level: General

Children and Grief

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4. Let Someone Know How to Respect Your Wishes This class is approved for .15 Continuing Education Units
Dr. Jerry Barker introduces new state-of-the-art Advance Care Planning (ACP) strategies (Let’s Talk Texas and Respecting Choices). Participants will encourage and assist patients and families to Let Someone Know their wishes before they can no longer speak for themselves. A great on-line class for all hospice professionals.

Audience: All
Level: General

Let Someone Know Your Wishes

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5. Professional Boundaries (Ethics Credit)- This class is approved for 1.5 hours Continuing Education Units
Sandi Hebley, RN, CHPN, LMSW, Silverado Hospice of Dallas
In this session participants will hold a discussion of professional codes of ethics, differences in personal self-interest motivations, self-disclosure, issues of gifts and actions necessary to maintain appropriate boundaries in professional relationships.
Audience: All
Level: Intermediate

Professional Boundaries

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6. Legal Issues for Hospice Marketing -1.5 credits
Marie C. Berliner, J.D.
has been providing legal counsel and representation to hospice and other providers in all aspects of Medicare administrative and regulatory compliance since 1988, in Washington, D.C and Austin, Texas. This presention covers:

Top three federal statutes affecting marketing

Application of laws to allowable marketing activities and limitations

legal challenges in real life situations

Audience: All
Level: General

Steps to get your CNE/CE/CEUs:

1 .Pay for the class through Paypal and immediately after paying you will be redirected back to our site (click on the button on the receipt that says return to Texas and New Mexico Hospice's Web site) the class will immediately begin once you are redirected to our site.

2. Watch and listen to the on-line presentation

3. Take the quiz at end and score an 80 or above.

4. Print the success page that contains your name, score, CE/CEUs awarded.

The presentations have sound and are timed. At the end there is a quiz that you must get an 80 or above on to get continuing education credit.

**No conflicts of interest, commercial support, endorsement of products, off-label use of products accompany these presentations.

Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization is an approved provider of continuing education by the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, expiration January 31, 2011.