Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Interprofessional Perspectives

Washington, DC US
November 12, 2025

This Conway Leadership Seminar will be a dynamic event uniting a diverse group of educators, practitioners, researchers, and learners to engage in dialogue about the nature and necessity of interprofessional collaborative practice in palliative and end-of-life care for older adults and their family systems. The program is an opportunity to support and empower students and leaders who strive to foster a healthcare culture that promotes human dignity, flourishing, and freedom.

Target Audience

Nurses

Nurse Practitioners

Psychologists

Social Workers

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1: 

Explain interprofessional collaboration and team coordination in palliative and end-of-life care.

Learning Objective 2: 

Identify ethical strategies to uphold the dignity, privacy, identity, and autonomy of persons in the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care, using a team-based, family-centered care approach.

Learning Objective 3: 

Develop culturally and developmentally appropriate communication and negotiation skills for safe and effective patient outcomes.

Learning Objective 4: 

Appreciate the expertise of diverse professionals and their impact on team functions and health outcomes.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 1.00 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 1.00 CE credits upon successful completion of the learning event and evaluation.
  • 1.00 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 1.00 continuing education credits.
    • 1.00 General
  • 1.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
Course opens: 
11/03/2025
Course expires: 
01/12/2026
Event starts: 
11/12/2025 - 5:30pm EST
Event ends: 
11/12/2025 - 6:30pm EST
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Rossi Auditorium, The Conway School of Nursing, The Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20064
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)

Mary Dixon, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

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

Jenna Andrews

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Michelle Churchill

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

David Jobes, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology; Board Certified in Clinical Psychology

has a financial relationship (Other Business Ownership) with CAMS-care, LLC;.
has a financial relationship (Grant Or Contract) with NIMH & PCORI;.

Elizabeth KIRK

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Rina Moore, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C

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

  • 1.00 ANCC
    Children’s National Hospital will provide 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
  • 1.00 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 1.00 CE credits upon successful completion of the learning event and evaluation.
  • 1.00 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 1.00 continuing education credits.
    • 1.00 General
  • 1.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
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