Series Description

This activity will allow 20 Children's National Hospital providers to become Respecting Choices Next Steps Advance Care Planning facilitators. This will provide patients at Children's National and their families the opportunity to have high-quality evidence-based advance care planning conversations to assist in medical decision making.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1: 

Define benefits of (stage-specific) ACP conversations and identify appropriate target population.

Learning Objective 2: 

Demonstrate the application of the person-centered decision-making framework to elicit preferences and decisions.

Learning Objective 3: 

Create strategies to transfer individual goals, values, and preferences to a written plan, e.g., advance directive.

Learning Objective 4: 

Demonstrate beginning competency in facilitating First Steps ACP conversations through role-play exercises.

Target Audience

Nurse Practitioners

Physicians

Physician Assistants

Social Work

Joint Accreditation Statement 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Children’s National Hospital. Children’s National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362 

ACCME: Children’s National Hospital designates this live/enduring activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

ANCC: Children’s National Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 7.0 LIVE/Enduring ANCC contact hours. 

ASWB: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Children’s National Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 7.0 ethics continuing education credits. 

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

The planning committee and presenters have no identified conflicts of interest.  

Acknowledgement of Financial and In-Kind Commercial Support 

No Financial or In-Kind commercial support was received for this educational activity.