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Please join us for RTS Coordinator Advanced Training
and Pre-conference Workshop! (NEW THIS YEAR)
*Based on requests received from past RTS Coordinator Advanced Training attendees, we have added another segment to RTS Coordinator Advanced Training.
RTS Coordinator Advanced Training Pre-conference Workshop
Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 1 to 4:30 pm
"Using Guided Participation for Teaching and Learning"
by Rana Limbo, PhD, APRN, BC and Cheryl Casperson, MS, RN
RTS Coordinators encounter situations daily with co-workers and other team members 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.”
Guided Participation is a method of engaging with another to help the other learn a socially important practice (i.e., how to care for bereaved families). One person serves as a guide or expert and gradually transfers responsibility (for making decisions, figuring things out, trying new skills) to the other. 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.
Following are some examples of situations for which you could use Guided Participation:
 Helping a new staff member learn effective communication skills
 Supporting effective time management
 Dealing with staff criticism of a staff member new to perinatal bereavement
 Communicating effectively with an orientee who has more experience than you do
 Dealing with a colleague who criticizes a patient or family member
 Convincing a new staff person to follow established hospital or clinic procedures
 Teaching precise charting
This 3.5-hour session 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 both advance practice nurses who have worked extensively in educating nurses and others who work in the clinical setting. They currently provide education to the Gundersen Lutheran Heart Institute preceptors.
* 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.
Register Online Today! Pre-conference workshop Education Credit
Prerequisite: Certificate of completion, RTS Bereavement Training in early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, & newborn death, and RTS Coordinator Training.
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Details
RTS Coordinator Advanced Training
Friday, August 17, 2007 - 8:00 to 4:30 pm
RTS Coordinator Advanced Training is designed to help you meet the challenges you face daily as an RTS Coordinator. It will help you stay abreast of current grief research, learn new educational techniques, support clinical practice, and find out more about bereavement support resources.
Advanced Training will help you think about things in a different way, support your practice, and foster connections with other leaders in hospital and clinical-based RTS bereavement care.
Advanced Training presents an outstanding roster of healthcare experts, all offering you the benefit of their own unique education and expertise, addressing topics designed to answer questions and solve problems in the field of perinatal bereavement.
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Registration and continental breakfast |
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Introduction and getting acquainted
Madonna Daley, MS, RN, Bereavement Educator, Bereavement Services,
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation (GLMF)
Waneeta Everson, RN, Bereavement Coordinator, GLMF
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"Ethics in Perinatal Bereavement"
Bud Hammes, PhD, Director, Medical Humanities, GLMF |
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Break |
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"Something's wrong with my baby: how caregivers facilitate the parents' journey following diagnosis of fetal anomaly"
Deb Rich, PhD, Licensed Psychologist |
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Stretch break |
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"Cultural Issues and Perinatal Loss"
Rachel Farnhart, RN, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN |
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Lunch |
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1:00-1:55 |
"Genetics 3"
Kevin Josephson, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor, Department of Pediatrics,
Gundersen Lutheran Health System |
1:55-2:00 |
Stretch break |
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"Developing Successful Support Groups"
Pam Mag, RN, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY |
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Break |
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"Creating Caregiver Rituals"
group activity |
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"Relaxing Your Mind and Body"
Pat Scowcraft, RN, Care Coordinator, Gundersen Lutheran Health System |
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Evaluations |
Printable agenda
Register Online Today! Pre-conference workshop Education Credit
Prerequisite: Certificate of completion, RTS Bereavement Training in early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, & newborn death, and RTS Coordinator Training. (THE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP IS NOT A PRE-REQUISITE FOR ATTENDING ADVANCED TRAINING.)
If you have questions or need more information, call Bereavement Services at 800-362-9567, ext 54747, or 608-775-4747. Or send an email to berservs@gundluth.org. ___________________________________________________________________________
Here are a few of the comments we received after last year's RTS Coordinator Advanced Training.
"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!"
2006 RTS Coordinator Advanced Training participants
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