BC Centre for Palliative Care

Dehydration in Palliative Care
2024-02-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | online
The Northern Health Palliative Care Consultation Team is pleased to offer education using the Project ECHO Model™ via Zoom. ECHO provides an opportunity for clinicians from all areas to connect and participate in case-based education with peers and palliative care experts.
The ECHO Model:
o Each session begins with introductions and a 15-20 minute didactic presentation.
o The remainder of the session will be spent discussing a case presentation, allowing for participant questions and discussion.
o Extra time can be used for any additional questions or discussion with the Palliative Care Consultation Team.
You will need a device that allows Zoom, a microphone, and a camera. You may need to request IT install Zoom on your device.
To register, please email: Palliative.Care.Consult.Team@northernhealth.ca

Palliative Care Awareness: Bringing Hospice and Palliative Care to Home and Community
2024-03-18 11:30 - 2024-03-20 12:30 | Online/In-person
Spring Lunch & Learn Webinar Series REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT – IN PERSON SPACE IS LIMITED
Virtual: March 18-20, 2024 from 11:30am – 12:30pm PST
In-person: March 21 from 11:30am – 1:30am PST
Join us for our biannual Lunch and Learn Series, hosted by BCHPCA for both members and the public, covering a wide array of topics. For this Spring season, our series focuses on “Palliative Care Awareness: Bringing Hospice and Palliative Care to Home and Community.”
This series promises to be beneficial not only for the hospice palliative care community but also for individuals from charitable, non-profit, public, and private sector organizations. Whether you’re a staff member, volunteer, or leader, this event will provide valuable insights and resources to support advocacy, partnership building, and government relations tailored to community needs.
We are excited to welcome distinguished speakers who will lead stimulating discussions, provide training, and offer education on how leaders and organizational teams can establish strategic advocacy relationships. Attendees can expect to gain practical knowledge on creating a diverse and inclusive environment to enhance community awareness, through advocacy.

Dying on the Streets: The Palliative Outreach Program
2024-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 | online
REGISTER
Guest Presenter: Shelley Tysick
Join us for this exciting webinar with Shelley Tysick, as she discusses her experiences as a RN supporting people living and dying on the streets of Victoria, B.C. As all communities are seeing increased numbers of people whose lives are in disarray, it is common to see individuals sleeping and living in makeshift shelters. For those living with life-threatening illness, it is important to be able to provide care that meets the person’s needs, where ever there are living.
Join us for this webinar to enhance and deepen your understanding and capacity for applying the principles of palliative care in the context of structural vulnerabilities (Structural vulnerabilities refers to the lack of housing, health care, food, finances, and so on, that people may experience due to social, medical, cultural or family issues.) We will discuss the challenges and consequences related to the social determinants of health (SDOH) and inequitable access to palliative care. We round up the discussion by sharing strategies related to harm reduction, cultural humility and trauma informed care and how to integrate them into your current palliative practice.
This webinar will build capacity for individuals to understand and practice principles of palliative care in the context of equity:

Attendees will explore social determinants of health (SDOH) that disproportionately impact people living with structural vulnerability. Further understanding of disparities in access to healthcare, and strategies to promote equity in palliative services will be evident.
Attendees will be able to recognize the impact of trauma on patients and will gain practical tools for integrating trauma informed care (TIC) and cultural humility into palliative practice.
Attendees will understand harm reduction principles and will learn how harm reduction practices intersect with palliative care.

Project ECHO- Basic Sessions: Palliative Approach for End Stage Heart Failure
2024-05-23 12:00 - 13:00 | online
“All teach, all learn”
The Northern Health Palliative Care Consultation Team is pleased to offer education using the Project ECHO Model™ via Zoom. ECHO provides an opportunity for clinicians from all areas to connect and participate in case-based education with peers and palliative care experts.
The ECHO Model:

Each session begins with introductions and a 15-20 minute didactic presentation.
The remainder of the session will be spent discussing a case presentation, allowing for participant questions and discussion.
Extra time can be used for any additional questions or discussion with the Palliative Care Consultation Team.
You will need a device that allows Zoom, a microphone, and a camera. You may need to request IT install Zoom on your device.

To register, please email: Palliative.Care.Consult.Team@northernhealth.ca

McGill International Palliative Care Congress
2024-10-15 - 2024-10-18 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 1001 Pl. Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montreal, QB, Canada
After a successful return in 2022, the McGill International Palliative Care Congress will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, from October 15-18, 2024.
This major gathering of healthcare professionals and palliative care specialists from around the world has been hosted in Montréal every second year since 1976. The McGill International Congress offers a unique conference experience: galvanizing plenary speakers; in-depth experiential workshops; seminars covering all aspects of end-of-life care, from the most current scientific developments in pain and symptom control to the large existential questions. All sessions are structured to allow ample time for dialogue, questions and thoughtful interaction. As always, the Congress will offer a welcoming, inclusive environment where the clinical sciences are intertwined with the humanities, the arts, and compassion.
Register and find out more by visiting: www.mipcc.ca/
