Program Description: During this enduring continuing education activity, nurses and healthcare workers
will learn about advanced directives and increase their confidence in advance care
planning. Advance directives and advance care planning are both important to ensure
patients' healthcare wishes are honored. This educational activity will provide education
about how to have conversations about advance care planning, complete advance directive
forms, and provide care that aligns with the patient's wishes regarding illness and
end-of-life care.
Presenter: Julie Resendes, MS, RN, CNE. Doctor of Nursing Practice student and Assistant Professor
of Nursing at the Community College of Rhode Island.
Nurses and healthcare workers
As a result of this activity, the learner will:
- Gain knowledge of advanced directives and increase confidence in advance care planning.
- Nurses: This continuing nursing education activity is provided by the Community College of
Rhode Island. The Community College of Rhode Island is approved as a provider of nursing
continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited
approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation,
for 1.0 contact hour. Expires November 30, 2025.
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This program is supported by funding from the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health
and Human Services, Healthcare Workforce Transformation Program.