The National Perinatal Bereavement Conference is pleased to offer education contact hours for registered nurses, social workers and chaplains.

Purpose:
Provide information on innovative program models, current research data and best practice, with a focus on the emotional aspects of perinatal bereavement throughout families’ reproductive and parenting years.

Target Audience:
Nurses, nurse practitioners, chaplains, social workers, parent advocates, and other interested healthcare professionals working with parents and families who have experienced the death of a baby at any time during pregnancy or infancy.

Successful Completion
In order to be awarded nursing, social work or chaplain contact hours you must:
- Sign the registration roster every day
- Attend a full day or the total number of days of the conference
- Complete and return the evaluation tool
A certificate of completion with the number of contact hours awarded with is awarded when turning in the completed evaluation tool at the end of the program.

Conflict of Interest and Off Label Use
Neither speakers nor planning committee members disclose any conflict of interest as relates to this program. Off label use of any products will not be discussed.

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this program. Vendor displays are independent from the program. Gundersen Lutheran, American Nurses Credentialing Commission and the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Committee do not endorse any vendor products or displays.

Physician Contact Hours
While CMEs are not offered by NPBC, physicians can submit their own report to receive Category 2 credit for attending NPBC. These would be considered H. AMA PRA Category 2 Credit activities.

AMA PRA Category 2 Credit is defined as all educational activities not designated for Category 1 that: comply with the AMA definition of CME; comply with the AMA ethical opinions on Gifts to Physicians from Industry
and on Ethical Issues in CME (i.e., are not promotional); and a physician finds to be a worthwhile
learning experience related to his/her practice. Accredited providers do not designate activities for
AMA PRA Category 2 Credit.

Physicians may claim AMA PRA Category 2 Credit for such learning activities as: teaching residents, medical students or other health professionals; unstructured online searching and learning (i.e., not Internet PoC); reading authoritative medical literature; or participating in live activities not designated for AMA PRA Category 1
Credit. Other examples include:
• Consultation with peers and medical experts
• Small group discussions
• Self assessment activities
• Medical writing
• Preceptorships
• Research

In each case, the physician individually determines the educational value of those AMA PRA Category 2 activities in which he or she participates.

Documentation: self documented; physicians should self claim credit for appropriate AMA PRA Category 2 activities on their AMA PRA certificate application form.

Credit assignment: as with live activities, physicians may self claim one (1) AMA PRA Category 2 Credit for each 60-minute hour engaged in the learning activity. Physicians may claim credit in 15 minute, or 0.25 credit increments, and round to the nearest quarter hour.

Content Experts
Dorotha Cicchinelli, BASW, LCCE, CLC, MNM
MaryBeth Cooper, MAR, BCC
Madonna Daley, MS, RN
Alana Roush, RNC
Beth Seyda, BS

Planning Committee
Nicole Alston, BS
Shirley Bulen, RN, BSN
Dorotha Cicchinelli, BASW, LCCE, CLC, MNM
MaryBeth Cooper, MAR, BCC
Madonna Daley, MS, RN
Joann O’Leary, PhD, MPH, MS
Alana Roush, RNC
Beth Seyda, BS