Palliative Care 2025 Online CNE Nursing Conference

This palliative care conference will provide focused education on key topics in palliative care, including the transition of pediatric palliative care to adult services, effective strategies for conducting family meetings, and addressing PTSD in patients with serious illness. Sessions will explore the development of end-of-life educational programs using the ELNEC curriculum, the integration of spirituality, dignity therapy, and artificial intelligence in care, and current updates and controversies in pharmacologic management—specifically around psychedelics, sedatives, and cannabinoids, as well as substance use disorder. Additional sessions will highlight the role of the humanities in medicine through storytelling, as well as integrative approaches such as yoga for grief and virtual reality for distraction and pain management.

Target Audience

This online nursing conference is designed for nurses working in palliative medicine, palliative care, and social workers.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 

  • Describe best practices for supporting patients and families across key transitions in palliative care 
  • Identify emerging therapies and current controversies in palliative pharmacology 
  • Apply integrative and humanistic approaches—such as storytelling in medicine, yoga for grief, and dignity therapy 
  • Explore the use of innovative tools, including virtual reality and artificial intelligence in palliative care settings

Attendance at any Mayo Clinic course does not indicate or guarantee competence or proficiency in the skills, knowledge or performance of any care or procedure(s) which may be discussed or taught in this course.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 8.05 ANCC
  • 7.34 ASWB
  • 8.05 Attendance
Course opens: 
11/24/2025
Course expires: 
11/24/2026
Cost:
$300.00
PTSD in  Patients with Serious IllnessLiz Sokolowski, MD
Substance Use Disorder in Palliative CareMashele Huschka, DNP, APRN, CNP, ACHPN
Teaching the Final Chapter: Developing an End-of-Life Educational ProgramJen Battista, MSN, RN, CMSRN and Doralyn Costello, MSN, RN, OCN
**Controversies and Updates in Palliative Care PharmacologyLeslie Siegel, PharmD, RPH
Palliative Care: Transitioning Pediatrics to Adult Smaro Spandonidis, RN and Melissa Smith, APRN, CPNP, MSN
Yoga Therapy for Grief SupportMichele Hoffman, C-IAYT
Common End of Life Practices of Major ReligionsCaila Rinker, MDiv, BCC-PCHAC
Grief Brain 101: Normalizing Cognitive Chaos, Fog, Fatigue, and ForgetfulnessAna Wilson, MDiv, BCC, FT, CT
Virtual Reality for Symptom ManagementJosh Lueck, MSN, RN
Conducting a Family MeetingRachel Eickhoff, RN; Rachel Gentes, MSN, MA, RN, APRN; Cory Ingram, MD, MS, FAAHPM; and Casey Wunderlich, LICSW
Storytelling in MedicineCory Ingram, MD, MS, FAAHPM

**Denotes session not offering ASWB hours.

 

This course is self-paced by the learner.

Credit Statements 

ANCC 
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 8.05 ANCC contact hours.  

ASWB

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science 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 7.34 clinical continuing education credits. 


Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science 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.

 

Other Healthcare Professionals 
A record of attendance will be provided to all registrants for requesting credits in accordance with state nursing boards, specialty societies or other professional associations. 

Available Credit

  • 8.05 ANCC
  • 7.34 ASWB
  • 8.05 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$300.00
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