SOCIAL WORKERS
Advance Care Planning (ACP) Certificate Program
Build skills required for effective discussions and documentation of ACP.
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$25.00 |
What is the ACP Certificate Program?
This on-demand, virtual, continuing education program is designed to increase your competence and confidence in facilitating conversations about ACP.
1.0 ASWB ACE general credit for Social Workers
Access to resources to prepare patients and their decision-makers for ACP meetings
Participants study at their own time and pace
Estimated time to complete activity: 1 hour
Includes 8 easy-to access, 10-minute video modules
Available on October 20, 2025. You will receive an email notification once the course is open
Upon completion, individuals will receive a Certificate of Completion from i3 Health and a Certificate in Advance Care Planning from Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey and Compassion & Choices
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the purpose and value of ACP
- Increase learners’ confidence and competence in supporting and appropriately engaging in ACP conversations within their scope of practice
- Identify tools and strategies to help patients prepare for ACP
- Recognize cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual factors that influence care decisions
- Differentiate between palliative care and hospice care, including when each service is appropriate
- Distinguish between advance directives and POLST forms
- Explain the role of POLST in guiding end-of-life care
- Describe how to use POLST effectively to document and honor patient wishes
This ACP Certificate Program provides healthcare professionals the skills and confidence to care for individuals and families as they near the end of their lives. — Aline Holmes, DNP, RN
Course Curriculum:
End-of-Life Care in the United States: A Call for Change
Introducing the 4-Step Model: A Simple Method for Making Difficult Decisions
Establishing Goals of Care: Keep YOUR Goals to Yourself
Aligning Care with Patients Goals: When Do We Discuss Palliative Care and Hospice?
The GOCCNJ’s ACP Certificate Program raises the standard for patient-centered care training. — M. Hamza Habib, MD, JD, MBA
Accreditation and Credit Designation
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey and i3 Health. i3 Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, i3 Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, i3 Health 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 under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 ASWB ACE general continuing education credit.
Disclosures and Disclaimer
Disclosures
i3 Health endorses the standards of the ACCME, ANCC, ACPE, and ASWB that require everyone in a position to control the content of a CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that are related to the content of the CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity. CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activities must be balanced, independent of commercial bias, and promote improvements or quality in health care. All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence accepted within the medical profession.
A conflict of interest is created when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship, which therefore may bias their opinions and teaching. This may include receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, stocks, or other financial benefits.
i3 Health will identify, review, and mitigate all relevant financial relationships that speakers, authors, or planners disclose prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation. i3 Health does not endorse any products or services.
Disclosure of relevant financial relationships are as follows:
Faculty Educators
David R. Barile, MD: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Planning Committee
The i3 Health planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey planners and managers have nothing to disclose. Compassion & Choices’ planners and managers have nothing to disclose.
i3 Health has mitigated all relevant financial relationships.
Disclaimer
The information provided at this CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical/clinical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.
Unapproved Use Disclosure
i3 Health requires CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB faculty (speakers) to disclose to attendees when products or procedures being discussed are off-label, unlabeled, experimental, and/or investigational (not FDA approved), as well as any limitations on the information that is presented, such as data that are preliminary or that represent ongoing research, interim analyses, and/or unsupported opinion. Faculty may discuss information about pharmaceutical agents that is outside of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved labeling. This information is intended solely for continuing medical education and is not intended to promote off-label use of these medications. If you have questions, contact the medical affairs department of the manufacturer for the most recent prescribing information.
Instructions on How to Receive Credit
Please register and login to access the course material.
Although there are multiple modules, this is one (1) activity with 1 evaluation for the entire activity. Please watch all videos before completing the evaluation.
Upon successful completion of the activity evaluation, CE certificates will be available for download.
Technical/Credit Queries
Technical queries about this activity should be directed to bhirschman@goalsofcare.org.
Questions regarding activity credit should be directed to support@i3Health.com.
A special thank you to our Independent Peer Reviewer: Tracy Grafton, LCSW, APHSW-C
This program is supported by:
Jointly provided by
About i3Health
i3 Health’s mission is to enhance the proficiency of the multidisciplinary health care team by providing evidence-based, fair-balanced CME/NCPD/CPE-approved activities that address identified professional practice gaps and unmet educational needs.
The staff of i3 Health collectively has decades of experience developing CME/NCPD/CPE/ASWB-approved activities for physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, nurse, and social worker audiences. We partner with key opinion leaders, academic/research institutions, professional societies, peer-reviewed journals, and social media platforms to develop and deliver the most innovative educational programming in health care.
About GOCCNJ
Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the only network of organizations in NJ working together to make certain that patients with serious illness get the care they need and no less, and the care they want and no more.
Our membership is comprised of nearly 40 statewide organizations along with strategic partners and academic alliances with leading teaching institutions. We believe human interests, values, and dignity must be at the core of medical decision-making. As such, we aspire to create a standard of care for NJ where people explore their wishes for care towards the end of life, express those wishes, and have their wishes honored. Through research, education and advocacy, our mission is to ensure that policy makers, healthcare providers, patients, and family caregivers have the information, resources, training, and tools they need to promote high-quality, person-centered advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life care services.
Copyright
© 2025. This accredited continuing education activity is held as copyrighted © by i3 Health and Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey. Through this notice, i3Health and Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey grant permission of its use for educational purposes only. These materials may not be used, in whole or in part, for any commercial purposes without prior permission in writing from the copyright owner(s).
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