MARK YOUR CALENDARS - August 14-15, 2008!

Pre-conference Workshops 

Thursday, August 14, 2008, Radisson Hotel, La Crosse, WI

In Your Eyes: Caregivers’ Role in Bereavement Photography
   Todd Hochberg, Professional Bereavement Photographer

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Registration Fee: $150

Bereavement photography represents a highly prized, yet technically challenging, memento for parents of babies who die. In addition to the photos that healthcare professionals take as part of a standard of care for bereaved families, there is a trend toward also using outside photographers. Presented by Todd Hochberg, professional bereavement photographer, In Your Eyes: Caregivers’ Role in Bereavement Photography is a half-day intensive

session for all caregivers interested in improving the quality and content of photographs they take for grieving families experiencing perinatal loss.

Using Guided Participation for Teaching and Learning: 2008

   Rana Limbo, PhD, CNS-BC, and Cheryl Casperson, MS, RN

1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Registration Fee: $95

RTS Coordinators encounter situations daily with co-workers and patients that involve teaching and learning. As an experienced perinatal bereavement professional, you look for ways to share your knowledge and skills. You may be a preceptor or designated as an educator or an expert leader. Yet sometimes what you say doesn’t seem to make a difference—it “goes in one ear and out the other.” Learn how to change that through Guided Participation.

Guided Participation is a method of engaging with another to help the other learn a socially important practice (i.e., how to communicate or regulate emotions). One person serves as a guide or expert and gradually transfers responsibility (for making decisions, figuring things out, trying new skills) to the other  person.

Guided Participation is relationship-based, involves reflective processes, and creates a framework for teaching and learning that extends the more traditional notion of teaching as “providing information” and learning as “listening to the information.”Designed and researched by Karen Pridham* and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and based on the work of John Dewey, Barbara Rogoff, and others, Guided Participation is unique in its focus on working with another to develop their competencies. Also valuable as a method for engaging with families, this session focuses on the use of Guided Participation with professional colleagues.

This workshop weaves information on learning styles and generational differences into a discussion of Guided Participation processes, with a focus on defining issues and developing competencies. Central to the learning experience are videos of real-life clinical experiences, followed by small- and large-group discussion.

Course faculty, Rana Limbo and Cheryl Casperson, are advance practice nurses who have worked extensively in educating nurses and others in the clinical setting. They currently provide education to the Gundersen Lutheran Heart Institute preceptors.

The following are examples of situations for which you can use Guided Participation.

1. Helping a family see their baby for the first time
2. Helping a new staff member learn effective communication skills
3. Supporting effective time management
4. Making sensitive follow-up calls
5. Dealing with staff criticism of a staff member new to perinatal bereavement
6. Dealing with a colleague who criticizes a bereaved parent or family member
7. Convincing a new staff person to follow established hospital or clinic procedures
8. Teaching precise charting

* Pridham, K. F., Limbo, R., Schroeder, M., Thoyre, S., & Van Riper, M. (1998). Guided participation and development of care-giving competencies for families of low birth-weight infants. Journal of Advanced Nursing 28(5), 948-958.

Prerequisite:  Certificate of completion from RTS Bereavement Training in early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, & newborn death, and RTS Coordinator Training. 

Cruise the Mississippi River - Thursday, August 14, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Fee: $17

RTS Coordinator Advanced Training

Friday, August 15, 2008

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 .pm.

Radisson Hotel, La Crosse, WI

Registration Fee: Early Bird                $195

                                After August 1st    $225

(Continental breakfast and lunch included)

Restore ~ Replenish ~ Revitalize

                                                                                               AGENDA   

      8:00 - 8:15            Opening introductions -  Waneeta Everson, BSN, RN

      8:15 - 9:30            Honoring Relationships in Perinatal Palliative Care - Kathie Kobler, BSN, RN

      9:30 - 9:35            Stretch break

    9:35 - 10:45            Ethics in Perinatal Loss: Selected Care Studies - Linda Briggs, MS, MA, RN 

 10:45 - 11:55             Break

 11:55 - 12:00             Evaluation of the Stillborn Infant: Integration of Old and New Technologies - Kerry Baldwin Jedele, MD

   12:00 - 1:00              Lunch

     1:00 - 1:55              Purpose Beyond Reason: A Tribute to Baby Eric - Lynette Spruiell, LPN

     1:55 - 2:00              Stretch break

     2:00 - 3:15              A Father’s Grief - Darryl Owens, MDiv, BA    

     3:15 - 3:25              Break

    3:25 - 4:15              Honoring Loss, Offering Healing: Lighting the path where two worlds meet - Nancy Noelke BS, MS

    4:15 - 4:30               Evaluation/Post-test and wrap up  

Prerequisite:  Certificate of completion, RTS Bereavement Training in early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, & newborn death, and RTS Coordinator Training. 

(THE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS ARE NOT A PRE-REQUISITE FOR ATTENDING ADVANCED TRAINING.)

For more information, call Bereavement Services at 800-362-9567, ext 54747, or 608-775-4747, o r email berservs@gundluth.org.

Printable Agenda

"I think the Coordinator Advanced Training was the best I've ever been to!" 

"I thoroughly enjoyed today and look forward to returning next year!" 

"This was a wonderful day!"

2007 RTS Coordinator Advanced Training participants

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