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Webinar Registration | Ready to Return: Understand Your Rights When Going Back to Work

August 26, 2026

10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes
Course Level: Beginner

 

This webinar will cover what to know when returning to work after cancer. Topics include rights and benefits available under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and state laws, including how to request reasonable accommodations and take job-protected leave. Considerations around disclosing a medical diagnosis, tips for returning to an existing job and applying to new jobs, and handling applications and interviews will be discussed.

Registration

Register for Ready to Return: Understand Your Rights When Going Back to Work directly below. To register for multiple 2026 Triage Health webinars at once, visit the main Webinar page.

Participants who need accommodations for a disability should email sw@triagecancer.org.

Accreditation Information

During this live and interactive webinar, social workers and nurses in attendance will learn about rights and benefits available under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and state laws, including how to request reasonable accommodations and take job-protected leave.

All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real-time via a chat box.

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Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who meet the requirements will be awarded 1.5 contact hour.

90 minutes of instruction/60 minutes = 1.5 contact hour

Triage Cancer, #1689, 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. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2023 to 08/26/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credit.

Triage Cancer is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0626. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours.

Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA) Program Approval Code: Coming soon

Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.

Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.

  • 12:00-12:05pm – Welcome and Speaker Introduction
  • 12:05-1:25pm – Returning to Work
  • 1:25-1:30pm – Questions & Answers
  • 1:30-1:40pm – Post Test
  • Attendees will be able to delineate the different return to work rights based on returning to a same or new job
  • Attendees will be able to outline how reasonable accommodations can be used to work through cancer treatment or to return
  • Attendees will be able to articulate patients' disclosure rights and medical exam requirements under various federal and state laws

In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.

Post-test & Evaluation

Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.

The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.

Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.

While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.

Triage Cancer uses the Zoom platform to host its webinars. Please see Zoom's system requirements for more information.

An email will be sent to you after you register with additional login information.

Expert

Presenting this webinar is Triage Cancer Chief Mission Officer, Monica Fawzy Bryant, Esq.

Monica Fawzy Bryant, Esq.

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