Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Triage Cancer, #1689, 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 as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2023 to 08/26/2026.

Triage Cancer is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0626.

Triage Cancer (Provider Code BCPA-ACE2006) is approved for CEs by the Patient Advocate Certification Board to satisfy the requirements for Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA).

Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.

Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.

Coping Skills & Strategies for Caregiver Self-Care

Attendees will be able to:

• Identify common ways the mental and emotional impact shows up in our thinking, emotional state and physical body
• Learn techniques to sharpen self-awareness and clarify personal needs during periods of stress and change as a caregiver
• Apply practical strategies to manage overwhelming emotions
• Review research based characteristics of resilience to better understand their own response to hardship and build techniques to foster a sense of stability even when circumstances feel out of control

Nutrition & Exercise to Support Caregiver Physical and Mental Health

Attendees will be able to:

• Outline basic exercise guidelines and benefits for those coping with cancer
• Delineate strategies for how people coping with cancer can fit exercise into their routines
• Provide tips and resources to make exercise approachable for those coping with cancer
• Describe the between nutrition and cancer, including common myths, evidence-based guidelines, and key considerations during and after treatment.
• Discuss practical strategies for making everyday food choices that support overall health and well-being
• Provide tips and resources to help make nutrition information easier to understand and apply in daily life

Caregiving While Parenting Young Children

Attendees will learn:

• Common responses from children when a parent has cancer, and how to navigate them
• Foundational coping tools to help children of all ages with big emotions, including play, art and movement
• Methods to engage a support system to lighten caregiving load and realistic self-care techniques
• Key resources to help families navigate a cancer diagnosis

Navigating Insurance & Medical Bills

Attendees will be able to:

• Outline various strategies to minimize out-of-pocket health care costs
• Describe how the appeals process is useful in accessing care after a cancer diagnosis

Practical Tools for Getting Organized & Planning Ahead for Caregivers

Attendees will be able to:

• Identify practical tools and tips for staying organized to maintain financial health
• Articulate strategies for accessing practical assistance to improve quality of life during cancer treatment
• Articulate the various documents that make up an estate plan
• Describe options to protect patients rights to make decisions about medical care (i.e., medical decision making)

In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.

Post-test & Evaluation

Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.

The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.

Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.

While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.

Triage Cancer uses the Zoom platform to host its webinars. Please see Zoom's system requirements for more information.

An email will be sent to you after you register with additional login information.