FACE Rare: Palliative Care Needs of Children with Rare Disease and Families

Washington D.C., DC US
August 18, 2025 to August 20, 2025

The CE program will support the learning for a targeted group of healthcare participants to discuss advance care planning for paediatric patients in varied settings. Advance care planning requires effective communication to clarify the goals of care and establish agreement on what treatments may or may not be appropriate to achieve these goals, including resuscitative and palliative measures.

Target Audience

Nurses

Nurse Practitioners

Physicians

Psychologists

Social Workers

MPH

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1: 

Demonstrate knowledge of benefits of (stage-specific) ACP conversations.

Learning Objective 2: 

Demonstrate the application of skills in the family-centered decision-making framework to elicit treatment preferences and decisions.

Learning Objective 3: 

Demonstrate skill in transferring individual goals, values, and preferences to a written plan, i.e. an advance directive.

Learning Objective 4: 

Demonstrate skill in facilitating Next Steps pACP conversations through simluated interviews with standardized patients, resulting in certification, using competency based criteria.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
    Children’s National Hospital designates this Live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 11.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 11.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 11.00 APA
    Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. All confirmed participants will earn 11.00 CE credits upon successful completion of the learning event and evaluation.
  • 11.00 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 11.00 continuing education credits.
  • 11.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
Course opens: 
08/15/2025
Course expires: 
10/18/2025
Event starts: 
08/18/2025 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
08/20/2025 - 4:30pm EDT
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August 18th
Day 1
Maureen E. Lyon, PhD
08:30am - 09:30am
August 19th
Day 2
Jessica Thompkins, RN, Kathleen Ziemba, LCSW
11:00am - 05:30pm
August 20th
Day 3 - Session 1
Jessica Thompkins, RN, Kathleen Ziemba, LCSW
08:30am - 11:45am
Day 3 - Session 2
Jessica Thompkins, RN, Kathleen Ziemba, LCSW, Maureen E. Lyon, PhD
01:00pm - 04:00pm
Children's National Hospital
111 Michigan Ave NW
Washington D.C., DC 20010
United States

Acknowledgement of Financial and In-Kind Commercial Support 

No financial or in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity. 

Course Director(s)

Maureen Lyon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker(s)

Eileen Engh, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC, CPN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Darcel Jackson, CPXP, LSSGB

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jessica Thompkins, BSN, RN, CPN, PhD Candidate

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

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.

Available Credit

  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
    Children’s National Hospital designates this Live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 11.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 11.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 11.00 APA
    Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. All confirmed participants will earn 11.00 CE credits upon successful completion of the learning event and evaluation.
  • 11.00 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 11.00 continuing education credits.
  • 11.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
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