Wounded Warriors: Their Last Battle, with Deborah Grassman is available for 90 days after enrollment.

1.25 hours

This session was recorded at NHPCO’s 11th Clinical Team Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Combat soldiers have often seen the worst mankind has to offer. It changes them in fundamental ways, inflicting emotional, spiritual, social, and moral injuries that impact them throughout their lifetime, especially as they face death. Some veterans return from war bitter; some return enlightened; all return with lessons the rest of us need to know. Like an iridescent pearl awaiting discovery within ugly, crusty shells, wisdom patiently hides — yielding its treasures to those with the courage, honesty, and humility required to reckon with wartime traumas and fears. Join Deborah Grassman, author of Peace at Last: Stories of Hope and Healing for Veterans and Their Families, for a presentation you won’t want to miss.

Objectives:

• Describe the emotional, social, spiritual and moral injuries sustained by veterans and how these impact end-of-life care
• Identify ways to respond to guilt and shame at the end of life
• Verbalize the influence that a military culture exerts on all veterans
• Briefly describe the major components of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Outline three death trajectories that combat veterans experience
• Identify appropriate assessment and intervention for all veterans: combat and non-combat
• Identify appropriate assessment and intervention for combat veterans, including rituals, therapeutic letter writing and forgiveness

Deborah Grassman, ARNP

Deborah Grassman is a Nurse Practitioner at Bay Pines VAMC in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has been with the VA for 26 years and has been the director of the hospice program at the VA for the last 15 years. She is a featured speaker at hospice and VA conferences throughout the United States and has published numerous articles on providing hospice care to veterans. She pioneered identifying the effects of past trauma on the quality of a person’s dying process, as well as ways to effectively respond to issues that surface at the end of life.

Ms. Grassman has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

In order to complete this online course and obtain CE/CME credit, the participant must view the entire course, correctly answer all case studies and quiz questions and complete the evaluation.

You will have access to this course for 90 days from the date of purchase.

Course Release Date: 10/12/10

Course Expiration Date: 10/12/13

Counselor: NHPCO is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors, Inc. for continuing education for national Certified Counselors. NHPCO adheres to NBCC continuing Education Guidelines. This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and counselors are awarded continuing education credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse:  NHPCO is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours. Nurses should claim only the contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Accredited status by ANCC refers only to continuing nursing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product discussed in conjunction with this activity.

Physician: The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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

Social Worker: NHPCO is an approved provider of continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886414158). This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and social workers are awarded continuing education hours commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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