Online Learning Center
Sharpen your skills to help others with webinars taught by experts.
Each webinar is 90-minutes long, includes time for discussion/question and answers, and costs $35. If you purchase the webinar but cannot attend for any reason, you will still be able to view the webinar recording for six months after the event. The webinar can also be purchased after the event. All of the webinars run 2-3:30 pm Eastern Time.
Upcoming Webinar
No new webinars are currently scheduled.
Recordings of Past Webinars Available for Purchase
The following webinar is for chaplains, other spiritual care providers, and other health care professionals
Palliative Care: Creating an Effective Transdisciplinary Team (Online on September 13th, 2011).
Teamwork is essential in providing quality care to patients receiving palliative care. This program is designed to enhance the clinical skills and effectiveness of healthcare professionals caring for palliative patients and their families. The content will include developing a team, defining roles, care and collaboration, leadership and communication skills, conflict resolution and finding meaning. In addition, a physician, nurse, social worker and chaplain will demonstrate teamwork by providing a case review
Expert presenter: Martin Montonye, DMin, BCC -- Vice President, Academic Affairs, HealthCare Chaplaincy
The following webinars are for professional and volunteer chaplains.
The Role of Chaplaincy within a Changing Culture (Online on June 14th, 2011).
Cultural competence is an increasingly important issue in health care and one where chaplains can have a major impact. Learn the current salient issues in making a health care institution culture-friendly for patients, families, and staff, and include new Joint Commission standards and assessment issues. Emphasis will be placed on the role that chaplains can have in being the “culture broker” for the institution.
Expert presenters: George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB -- Vice President, Chaplaincy Care and Leadership Practice, HealthCare Chaplaincy & Sue Wintz, MDiv, BCC -- Managing Editor, PlainViews® e-newsletter for spiritual care providers, HealthCare Chaplaincy
Spiritual Screening, History Taking, and Assessment (Online on June 28th, 2011).
Based on the work of the National Consensus Conference on Spiritual Care in Palliative Care, learn a system for integrating spiritual screening, history taking, assessment and care planning into the palliative care team. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the chaplain within the overall spiritual care function of the palliative care team
Expert presenter: George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB -- Vice President, Chaplaincy Care and Leadership Practice, HealthCare Chaplaincy
The following webinars are for anyone who desires more information about these important topics; chaplains, other religious professionals, and other spiritual care providers.
Financial Exploitation of Older Adults - More than Money is Taken
Older adults victimized by financial abuse endure more than the loss of money- their health and well-being are also impacted. Chaplains have a unique relationship with older adults characterized by openness and trust, so it is imperative that chaplains have the knowledge to identify potential and actual financial abuse victims. Webinar attendees will become familiar with the general concepts of elder abuse as presented through case studies. Particular attention will be paid to financial exploitation, its effects, and appropriate referral resources.
Expert presenters:
Joy Solomon, Esq., Director & Managing Attorney
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale
Gary S. Brown
Assistant Attorney General-in-Charge
Westchester Regional Office
Organ Donation: Important Religious, Spiritual and Practical Aspects (Online on October 11th, 2011).
Organ donation saves lives but inadequate understanding of religious concerns often stands in the way. Learn the facts about the organ donation and referral process; the ethical, religious and cultural considerations that families may have when deciding about donation and the role that each faith leader plays in saving lives.
Expert presenter: Karen Cummings, New York Organ Donor Network
Improve your practice with these online courses
HealthCare Chaplaincy introduces a new approach in continuing education for chaplains, clergy, counselors, educators, health care professionals and others with online courses that:
- Bring up-to-date subject matter to you at your convenience
- Add to, or refresh, your professional skills
- Provide opportunity for dialogue with peers
- “What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About Cultural Self-Awareness” created by the Rev. Dagmar Grefe, PhD, Manager of Spiritual Care Services/ACPE Supervisor, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on developing cultural self-awareness. Cultural self-awareness is awareness of interactions of cultural groups, and awareness of the psychological processes that occur automatically and impact on our social behaviors. Social psychology provides a framework for understanding why human beings categorize others, develop stereotypes, and respond to others in automatic ways. Included in this online course are methods to improve cultural self-awareness. The information is based in psychological research and theory.
- “What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About The Confused Patient: Delirium and Dementia” created by David A Harrison, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on the often overlooked and under-diagnosed disorder of delirium. It also contains information about, and useful clarifying comparisons with, dementia, because delirium and dementia are often confused one for the other. Case studies provide examples of the risk factors, signs, and potentially life-long negative impacts for patients with delirium, as well as the progression of dementia on patient and family members. Recommended intervention strategies for patients and families of patients with delirium and dementia are included in this course.
Price: $40 per course.
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Each of these courses:
- Contains an online, self-directed learning module that you can access as often as you like, at your convenience, for up to one year.
- Contains bookmarks, so that you can close the course and resume your learning later from that place.
- Allows for repeated course completions to reinforce learning.
- Includes an invitation to participate in a facilitated, online, community of practice for peer to peer learning.
- Provides a certificate of completion, accessible and printable after the learner completes the course at least once.
For more information about these new courses, please contact Kathy Jankowski, Director of Professional and Continuing Studies: kjankowski@healthcarechaplaincy.org
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