Self-Study Courses for Individuals
Board-approved self-study courses for busy professionals.
Hospice Foundation of America has taken the award-winning HFA Living With Grief® and New Perspectives series and created a collection of self-study courses for professionals. Each program is approved for 3 hours of continuing education for $100 + shipping & handling (except for Special Report).
Courses contain a full-length DVD of HFA's program, a copy of HFA's Living With Grief or New Perspectives companion textbook of articles, learning objectives, panel information and a participant evaluation and/or exam (except Special Report noted above). This is an economical and convenient way to earn continuing education hours at home and add valuable resources to your professional library.
Available Courses:
Living with Grief: End-of-Life Ethics examines, using a case study approach, the ethical issues and dilemmas that emerge at the end-of-life. Ethical decisions at the end of life provide a point where all the factors that influence end-of-life care such as finances, laws, values, culture, and technology converge.
Beyond Kübler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief explores the most current theoretical perspectives on death, dying, and grief, emphasizing areas where understandings of dying, death, and grief have been challenged and developed since the 1969 publication of Kübler-Ross’ epochal work, On Death and Dying.
Living with Grief: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care discusses the differences and relationship between spirituality and religion, while also addressing spirituality during illness, death and grief; spiritual assessment and empowerment, and life review.
Living With Grief: Cancer and End-of-Life Care addresses care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional caregivers. This course examines psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the disease.
Living With Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care focuses on ways of understanding diversity and how cultural histories, traditions and beliefs can affect end-of-life-care, and also examines the most current theories and practices in this area.
Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents focuses on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that hospices, schools, grief counselors, and parents can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief.
Living With Grief: Before and After the Death offers the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after death.
Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice examines the gap between knowledge and application of effective pain control in the person with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management.
Special Report:
Living With Grief: African Americans and End-of-Life Care examines African American attitudes about care at the end of life, offers explanations as to why hospice, historically, has not been a choice for many African Americans, looks at grief and the African American community, and suggests ways to reach out to African Americans who are making end-of-life decisions.
Please note: this Special Report may be purchased on our storefront for the reduced price of $30.99 and one Continuing Education credit is available for social workers, nurses and counselors for an addition $12.50. This course does not include a companion book.
How the Self-Study Program Works:
Step 1 - Register for the course at register.hospicefoundation.org and use the 'Register' link on the left-hand menu. HFA will then mail your self-study materials to you, which are yours to keep.
Step 2 - View the DVD in its entirety.
Step 3 - Read the 3 selected chapters of HFA's companion book.
Step 4 - Follow the instructions provided to receive your CE certificate online. An evaluation form and a short exam are a part of this online process. Note: CE credits can only be obtained online for this course.
