Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar: Work Transitions: Strategies for Looking Ahead

The pandemic has brought about unexpected transitions in the work and personal lives of many. For cancer patients and survivors this shifting landscape has been particularly complex. This session will help you think about how to positively navigate your unique work and personal transitions.

Date & Time

Wednesday, August 3, 2022 — 1:00 PM ET/ 10:00 AM PT

Registration

All sessions are free and open to cancer patients, survivors, healthcare professionals and caregivers. Sign-in for this live and interactive webinar by clicking “Register” below. You will be taken to the webinar Sign-In Page, where you will be prompted to enter your name and email. You will then be taken to a page with your unique link to join the live webinar. 

The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform. 

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Speaker

Kathy Flora, MA, NCCC, Career Coach

Kathy Flora joined Cancer and Careers 16 years ago as one of their first volunteer career coaches. A joyful cancer survivor of 19 years, she is a nationally certified career counselor, master certified coach, and author who is a frequent CAC conference speaker and webinar facilitator.

Her experience spans more than 25 years in executive management and leadership, career development, and consulting in private firms, universities and federal agencies. She was a three-term elected State Representative in New Hampshire, managed HR programs for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress as well as leadership training for the Defense Intelligence Agency before retiring from public service.

Kathy’s life passion is helping others find and fulfill theirs. Known as a positive change agent, she has assisted hundreds of individuals to capitalize on their strengths while working through life and career transitions.

Accommodations

To request accommodations, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org

Accreditation

Agenda

1:00 PM – 1:05 PM ET: Welcome, Speaker Introduction

1:05 PM – 1:50 PM ET: Overview of how to navigate work and personal transitions following a cancer diagnosis

1:50 PM – 2:00 PM ET: Questions

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to recognize transition and change research models.
  • Attendees will be able to describe strategies to successfully navigate work and life transitions.
  • Attendees will be able to identify approaches to help patients manage their current environment to create positive work transitions.

Credits Information

One (1) continuing education credit will be provided free of charge to eligible oncology nurses, social workers, and HR professionals upon approval from the agencies listed below.

Social Workers

  • This program is approved by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (Approval #0072) for 1 continuing education hour.
  • Cancer and Careers, #1814, 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 as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Cancer and Careers maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 06/10/2022 – 06/10/2023. Social workers completing this course receive one (1) continuing education credit.

Oncology Nurses

  • Cancer and Careers is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
  • Provider approved by the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16673, for 1 continuing education credit per session.

HR Professionals

  • Cancer and Careers is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 1 PDC per session for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

Requirements to Receive Credits

CEW Foundation (aka Cancer and Careers) maintains responsibility for programs. Healthcare professionals of all disciplines should contact their regulatory board(s) to determine course approval for their specific license(s) and/or certification(s). Please note that regulatory boards may not accept duplicate contact hours (i.e., CEs awarded for webinar sessions with similar titles offered in this or prior calendar years) as valid for license and/or certification renewal.

If you plan on requesting continuing education credits for a webinar series, you MUST complete all of the following steps:

  1. Register for each live webinar presentation for which you plan on requesting a CE.
  2. Prior to the session, you will receive an email with phone and web log-in information.
  3. You must attend the live presentation of the webinar Please note that participants who "listen-in" on another participant's line will not be eligible for credit.
  4. An email with links to a post-session test and an evaluation form will be sent within 48 hours of the webinar. If you do not receive this email with 2 business days of the webinar, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org
  5. Both the post-session test and evaluation form must be completed and submitted within two weeks of the date that the webinar was held. For example, if a webinar is held January 1, these two documents will be due January 15th. The date that these documents are due will be stated during the webinar, and again in the follow-up email that is sent to you.
  6. You must pass the post-session test with a score of 80% or higher. Scores area calculated manually by our staff after the post-test closes so are not displayed upon completion of the post-test. Staff will inform those who did not pass the post-test and allow them a window to re-take the post-test up to two (2) additional times.
  7. You will be notified via email of your status in qualifying for a CE no later than 30 days after the date of the webinar. For example, for a webinar held January 1, notifications will be sent out no later than February 1.

Certificates

Those who meet all the requirements above will receive a certificate via email within 30 days of the webinar.

Bibliography

Bibliographies are available to attendees by request. To request them, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org, including the titles of the session(s).

Questions or Grievances

If you have any questions about earning continuing education credits, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org. For information on our grievance policy, please click here.

System Requirements

Live webinars will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Click here for Zoom’s system requirements for more information.