Care in Context: Advance Care Planning and the Role of Social Work

Our current healthcare system is fragmented and in need of transformation. Care is inequitably delivered and too often not congruent with patient preferences. Advance care planning conversations lay the foundation for person-centered, family-focused, culturally congruent, goal concordant quality care. Although ideally, occurring over a lifetime, advance care planning conversations are an essential element of primary palliative care and especially important for those who are seriously ill. Social workers have the clinical background to provide nuanced advance care planning conversations and are often well positioned to offer leadership in developing advance are planning programs within their organizations. This interactive workshop will explore best practices in advance care planning with a focus on the social work role. Advance care planning tools and resources will be provided.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Social workers who take this class will be able to:

1. Identify how the social work role contributes to effective advance care planning (ACP)
2. Understand how the provision of contextualized, goal-concordant care contributes to lessened moral distress for patients, families and our teams.
3. Identify next steps that you might take to improve ACP within your area of influence.

Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, MA, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C, FNAP, FAOSW

Shirley Otis-Green’s career is dedicated to transforming the delivery of care to more equitably address the symptoms and stress of serious illness. Her education, research and consultation efforts focus on quality-of-life, palliative care, and interprofessional leadership. As Principal Investigator on studies with over $3.5 million in external funding, her work has been disseminated through more than 100 publications and 500 professional presentations.

Shirley is a National Association of Social Workers Pioneer and has been recognized with Fellowships by the Association of Oncology Social Work, California Health Care Foundation, and the National Academies of Practice. She was among the first to receive an international Master of Arts in Health Research - Palliative Care degree from Lancaster University in Great Britain, and is co-editor of The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, now in its Second Edition. Shirley is also the Founder and Consultant for Collaborative Caring.

Class fees are listed below:

• Full Tuition - $90
• GSS Alumni - $75
• Current Field Instructor - $75
• Current Adjunct Faculty - $75
• SWHPN Member - $75
• 3+ members registering from one agency - $60 per registration
• Non-Fordham Current MSW or Social Work PhD Student - $60
• Veterans - $60
• Fordham Faculty and Staff - $60
• Current Fordham MSW or PhD Student - $45
• Fordham Alumni Palliative Care Fellow - $45
• Current Fordham Palliative Care Fellowship Field Instructor/Career Mentor - $45
• Current Fordham Palliative Care Fellow or Montefiore Fellow - $0

Continuing Education Hours

Completion of this class will result in the receipt of three (3) continuing education hours. CEHs are not awarded for partial completion of the class.

You will receive the Zoom link for joining the class by the day before the class. IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE LINK BY THIS TIME, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. 

You will need a computer and a reliable WiFi connection. The computer may be a desktop or a laptop. It may be an Apple or Windows computer.

If you have never used Zoom before, you will likely be prompted to download an applet, which is a small program that allows Zoom to communicate with your computer. This is safe and you will need to do this to join the class.

It is NOT advised that you participate using a table (e.g., an iPad) or a cellular phone. The software is not optimized for these devices.

Please plan to join the online class 15 minutes before the start time to be sure that you don’t have any problems connecting. We cannot provide technical support to you and refunds won’t be offered if you have technical problems. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact us at [email protected] at least a few days before the class.