COURSE INFORMATION
This CE course introduces the healthcare and behavioral healthcare professional in understanding the painful world of miscarriage, still-birth and infant death. Losing a child is difficult at any age but for many, miscarriages are disenfranchised and not recognized. Others who suffer the extreme pain of stillbirth or losing an infant weeks after, face a very long grieving trajectory of healing. This course discusses these types of losses and the pain associated with them. Whether a nurse, physician, funeral director, chaplain, social worker, counselor, birthing coach, or doula, the study of perinatal grief is important to prepare the healthcare and behavioral healthcare professional in helping parents work their way through the grief and healing but to also have a strong understanding of the entire process. This course hence covers not only grief counseling, but also educates one about the medical processes, terms, and protocols one may experience with miscarriage, stillborn or infant death.
This course is particularly designed for those who would like to apply for Certification as a Perinatal Grief Counselor with the American Academy of Grief Counseling. You must have met at least one of the defined requisites and be certified with AAGC as a Grief Counselor to enter this program and earn certification. One can also enroll into this course for merely CE hours with no intent of certification
Course Code: GC 775
Contact hours of continuing education = 25.
Instructor/Course Author: Mark Moran, M.A., SC-C, GC-C
Instructor Resume: Access Here
TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) required textbook for this course.
Perinatal Bereavement for Birth Professionals: A Handbook for Supporting Families in Unexpected Outcomes. (2nd Edition). Julias Banas, Birthing Business Education Services.
- ISBN-10: 1695683358
- ISBN-13: 978-1695683358
Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here
TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 25 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by AIHCP and will be permitted one more attempt to retake the online examination.
BOARD APPROVALS: The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637.
AIHCP is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 25 Contact Hours. Access information
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 25 contact hours of CE
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
Course Refund & AIHCP Policies: access here
ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS
- Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
- Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
- Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
- Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.
- Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the unique type of loss and feelings associated with miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death and be equipped with the knowledge and counseling skills to express, guide and help heal couples experiencing loss
- Identify the differences of a baby at first, second and third trimester
- Understand the medical process surrounding miscarriage, stillborn and neonatal death
- Teach others what to expect regarding miscarriage at home or at hospital and health concerns tied to this loss from mental to physical adjustments
- Prepare and educate parents about the hospital visit for miscarriage, still born, premature birth, or defect
- Educate others about the NICU and preterm labor units and the tools and terms used in these scenes
- Guide parents how to bond with the child who passed via miscarriage, still born, or who has little time left to live
- Guide parents through postmortem care and expected physical and emotional reactions
- Guide parents in the post-death process of funeral or memorial services of the baby
- Identify ways grieving parents can memorialize and find meaning in their baby’s death
- Helping parents find hope for future children
- Identify one’s own professional need for selfcare when dealing with the sadness of grief and loss of a baby
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of content:
- Miscarriage and Perinatal Loss Videos
- Understanding the Grieving Process
- Forms of Loss
- Birth Professionals in the World of Perinatal Bereavement
- Loss by Trimester
- Planning for Birth
- Bereavement In Practice
- Meaning Making
- Planning for After
- Postpartum Care
- Preterm Labor
- Birth Professional Grief and Self Care