Advanced Directives and Advance Care Planning
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.
Who Should Attend:
Nurses and healthcare workers
Learning Objectives and Outcomes:
As a result of this activity, the learner will:
- Gain knowledge of advanced directives and increase confidence in advance care planning.
Credit Designation:
- 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.
This program is supported by funding from the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Healthcare Workforce Transformation Program.