Advance Care Planning (ACP) Certificate Program

1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for MDs/DOs/PAs/PRNs/APNs/NPs

Cost: $50

Format: 9 brief video modules

Estimated Time to Complete: 1.5 hours

1.0 ANCC contact hour, ASWB ACE general credit, or ACPE credit

Cost: $25

Format: 8 brief video modules

Estimated Time to Complete: 1 hour

This on-demand, virtual, professional development program is designed to increase your competence and confidence facilitating conversations about ACP

• Participants study at their own time and pace
• Includes easy-to access, 10-minute video modules
• Access to a library of patient and family education videos to prepare patients and their decision-makers for advance care planning meetings
• Upon completion of the ACP Certificate Program, individuals receive a personalized certificate of completion

Who Should Take this Course?

The ACP Certificate Program is designed for health professionals who will have the advance care planning conversation with patients.

• Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Advance Practice Nurses 
• Certified Nursing Aides/Assistant*, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Advance Practice Nurses 
• Social Workers
• Pharmacists

*Certified Nurse Aides/Assistants (CNAs) who work in states that require continuing education hours for certificate renewal should confirm with their state Board of Nursing or Department of Health whether ANCC-accredited continuing education activities are accepted toward their requirements

Learning Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to

• Describe the purpose and value of ACP
• Increase learners’ confidence and competence in supporting and appropriately engaging in ACP conversations within their scope of practice
• Identify tools and strategies to help patients prepare for ACP
• Recognize cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual factors that influence care decisions
• Differentiate between palliative care and hospice care, including when each service is appropriate
• Distinguish between advance directives and POLST forms
• Explain the role of POLST in guiding end-of-life care
• Describe how to use POLST effectively to document and honor patient wishes

Course Curriculum

• End-of-Life Care in the United States: A Call for Change
• Introducing the 4-Step Model: A Simple Method for Making Difficult Decisions
• The Importance of Discussing Prognosis: Tips on Predicting How Much Time a Patient Has Remaining
• Establishing Goals of Care: Keep YOUR Goals to Yourself
• Aligning Care with Patients Goals: When Do We Discuss Palliative Care and Hospice?
• Utilizing POLST to Secure Preferences: POLST Captures a Conversation
• Conducting Effective Advance Care Planning Meetings Part 1: Words are Important
• Conducting Effective Advance Care Planning Meetings Part 2: Preparing Families for the Conversation
• Billing & Coding for Advance Care Planning (Physicians Only)

A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer: M. Hamza Habib, MD, PhD, JD, MBA

A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer: Aline Holmes, DNP, RN

A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer: Tracy Grafton, LCSW, APHSW-C

A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer: Vivianne Lam, PharmD, RPh

Testimonials

• This ACP Certificate Program provides healthcare professionals the skills and confidence to care for individuals and families as they near the end of their lives.” — Aline Holmes, DNP, RN
• “Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey is my go-to resource for staying up-to-date on all of our ACP programming.  They've done it again with this ACP Certificate Program!  They have a knack for taking difficult topics and creating high-quality, relatable and trusted material.” – Tracy Grafton, LCSW, APHSW-C 
• “The GOCCNJ's ACP Certificate Program provides high-impact training that empowers staff to excel in advance care planning. Flexible and compliant, it raises the standard for patient-centered care.” – M. Hamza Habib, MD, JD, MBA
• “The ACP Certificate Program is a valuable tool for all professionals across the healthcare continuum. The training excels at breaking down topics into easy, understandable material that empower team members to coordinate care related to advance care planning with confidence and mindfulness.”  – Vivianne Lam, PharmD

Accreditation and Credit Designation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey and  i3 Health. i3 Health 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 health care team.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, i3 Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.

Physicians    

i3 Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants

The American Academy of PAs (AAPA) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Individuals are responsible for checking with the AAPA for further guidelines.

Certified Nursing Aides/Assistant

CNAs who work in states that require continuing education hours for certificate renewal should confirm with their state Board of Nursing or Department of Health whether ANCC-accredited continuing education activities are accepted toward their requirements.

Nurse Practitioners

The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Individuals are responsible for checking with the AANPCP for further guidelines.

Nursing Continuing Professional Development

A maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hour may be earned by learners who successfully complete this online nursing continuing professional development activity.

Continuing Pharmacy Education

i3 Health has approved this knowledge-based activity for 1.0 ACPE CE hour. The Universal Activity Number for this activity is JA0008128-0000-25-033-H04-P. Pharmacy CE credits can be submitted to the NABP upon successful completion of the activity and the evaluation by providing your NABP ID and DOB, which must be submitted within 60 days of completion.

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, i3 Health 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 1.0 ASWB ACE general continuing education credit.

Disclosures

i3 Health endorses the standards of the ACCME, ANCC, ACPE, and ASWB that require everyone in a position to control the content of a CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that are related to the content of the CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity. CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activities must be balanced, independent of commercial bias, and promote improvements or quality in health care. All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence accepted within the medical profession.

A conflict of interest is created when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship, which therefore may bias their opinions and teaching. This may include receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, stocks, or other financial benefits.

i3 Health will identify, review, and mitigate all relevant financial relationships that speakers, authors, or planners disclose prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation. i3 Health does not endorse any products or services.

Disclosure of relevant financial relationships are as follows:

Faculty Educators

David R. Barile, MD: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Planning Committee

The i3 Health planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey planners and managers have nothing to disclose. Compassion & Choices’ planners and managers have nothing to disclose.

i3 Health has mitigated all relevant financial relationships.

Disclaimer

The information provided at this CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical/clinical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.

Unapproved Use Disclosure

i3 Health requires CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB faculty (speakers) to disclose to attendees when products or procedures being discussed are off-label, unlabeled, experimental, and/or investigational (not FDA approved), as well as any limitations on the information that is presented, such as data that are preliminary or that represent ongoing research, interim analyses, and/or unsupported opinion. Faculty may discuss information about pharmaceutical agents that is outside of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved labeling. This information is intended solely for continuing medical education and is not intended to promote off-label use of these medications. If you have questions, contact the medical affairs department of the manufacturer for the most recent prescribing information.

Instructions on How to Receive Credit

Please register and login to access the course material.

Although there are multiple modules, this is one (1) activity with 1 evaluation for the entire activity. Please watch all videos before completing the evaluation.

Upon successful completion of the activity evaluation, CE certificates will be available for download. 

Technical/Credit Queries

Technical queries about this activity should be directed to [email protected]. Questions regarding activity credit should be directed to [email protected].