End-of-Life Continuing Education

End of Life Choices New York offers several online self-study courses for professionals. Each course involves watching a recorded presentation and completing a quiz. You must score 80% or higher to pass the quiz, but may retake the quiz as needed. Upon successful completion of the course, a certificate will automatically be issued.

End of Life Care Community Advocate Training

$395.00

This course trains professionals how to advocate for the communities they serve when navigating serious illness and the end of life.

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Social Workers in End of Life Care

$25.00

This course explores how social workers can improve the lives of patients and caregivers, particularly near the end of life.

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Spiritual Considerations in End of Life Care

$25.00

This course examines the role that spirituality plays in end of life care, and includes a basic introduction to relevant teachings of several major religions.

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Advance Directive Tutorial

$25.00

Enjoy step by step guidance for several of the most common and important advance directive forms applicable to all New Yorkers.

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For Social Workers: A Chinese Farewell

$25.00

In this course, we explore data, research, and observed findings that highlight the struggles and barriers faced by Chinese-speaking immigrants receiving end-of-life care.

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For Social Workers: Inclusive and Affirming Palliative Care for the LGBTQ+ Community

$25.00

This course reviews healthcare inequities impacting the LGBTQ+ population and offers guiding principles, and inclusive and affirming strategies, to shape the cultural understanding of this community to offer high quality palliative care.

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For Social Workers: Grief and Aspects of the African American Experience

$25.00

This course examples elements of grief from the African American perspective, highlighting how social inequities frame and impact grief.

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For Social Workers: A Conversation About Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking

$25.00

Listen to expert panelists discuss VSED and why some decisionally-capable persons chose to hasten their dying with this legal end of life option.

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For Social Workers: An Overview of Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

$25.00

A clinical and legal overview of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and how it can be used for a peaceful, gentle death. The presentation also includes an overview of the End of Life Choices New York's Dementia Directive.

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What Social Workers Should Know About End of Life Care

$25.00

This course reviews end of life treatment options, advance care planning, palliative care, life-sustaining treatments and hospice; and how to be better prepared to help your clients have their health care wishes honored & receive more effective care.

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For Social Workers: Decision-Making & COVID-19

$25.00

A discussion on prevention and planning for a COVID-19 medical crisis, including how to communicate and document medical wishes.

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For Social Workers: Palliative Care & COVID-19

$25.00

A course on palliative care and how it can help COVID-19 patients.

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