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CE Course Description

This course equips social workers with up-to-date knowledge and skills for providing compassionate, effective end-of-life care. Through reference materials, case studies, and interactive discussions, participants will explore topics including hospice and palliative care, ethical decision-making, grief counseling, and cultural competence in end-of-life situations. Emphasis is placed on developing therapeutic communication strategies and creating patient and family-centered care plans, as well as supporting patients and families through anticipatory grief and fostering resilience.

Author: April Chen, LMSW

CE Course Objectives

1. Perform specific biopsychosocial assessments to identify and address the unique social, emotional, and practical needs of patients and their families facing end-of-life. 
2. Implement patient-centered care plans focusing on holistic pain management, palliative/hospice education, and patient/family advocacy. 
3. Explain communication techniques social workers utilize in discussing delicate topics such as patient prognosis, end-of-life decisions such as Advanced Directives, MOLST/POLST, Code Status, and funeral/memorial service planning.
4. Describe essential practices, including grief counseling, anticipatory grief, interventions, and understand the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in person and family-centered approaches.

Social Work Approval

Social Work CE Credit for this course is offered with the following approvals. Many state boards of social work will accept the approvals listed. Provider Approvals by state and license type can be found here.

• Quantum Units Education is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, CAMFT Provider #89970, to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEP. Quantum Units Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
• Florida board for Social Workers CE Provider #50-8650 (Quantum 'immediately' reports CE Credits to Florida licensees) 
• Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, License No. 159.001261 approved CE Sponsor
• Ohio CSWMFTB #RCST091701 approved CE Provider
• Texas Board of SWE #5070 approved CE Provider
• Quantum Units Education, #1289, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 01/03/2023 - 01/03/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 'General' continuing education credits.

To see other approvals in your state, see our state by state provider approval listings here.

Course Development: Each course is identified and reviewed by the appropriate Quantum Units Education consultant with professional and licensed expertise in the various disciplines we serve. Our professional consultants oversee course development to satisfy the needs of various professionals based on their board requirements, rate course degrees of difficulty and ensure the course content and exam questions are appropriate, relevant and comprehensive. See our professional staff and their bios here.

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Added On: 05/08/2025