Part 2: Learn How to Facilitate Well-Being Debriefings within Your Organization
2021-04-01 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver)
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a stunning toll on the emotional well-being of health care workers. Many of us are looking for proven strategies to mitigate the natural stress, empathy strain, and moral distress that we are experiencing.
Peer-facilitated well-being debriefings are an evidence-based way to provide support to health care workers; they increase social support, decrease feelings of isolation, and provide opportunities to learn from each other about coping with difficult issues. The result: positive impact on well-being, personal resiliency, improved patient care, and reduced feelings of burnout.
In this two-part webinar series, Vickie Leff, LCSW, will train attendees to be peer facilitators for well-being debriefings, providing the skills needed to bring this technique to their organizations. In part one, attendees learned the benefit of peer-facilitated well-being debriefings; the format of these conversations; how to secure buy-in from leadership; and more. In part two, Vickie will review the techniques previously learned, and then provide attendees with an opportunity to hone their newly-acquired skills.

CPCNA Town Hall: Before all else Fails-- Laugh!
2021-04-07 16:00 - 17:00
Event hosted by: Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association (CPCNA)
Michelle O’Rourke RN and Kath Murray RN will lead us in a discussion about how humour helps us cope in difficult and challenging times. There will be a brief presentation followed by group sharing and discussion. You can join in or simply listen to the conversation.
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Supporting patients and family in the ICU: When their distress and grief hits close to home
2021-04-07 17:30 - 18:30
Event hosted by: Canadian Virtual Hospice
Canadian Virtual Hospice invites you to a free webinar discussion with Dr. James Downer, MD and Dr. Amanda Lee Roze des Ordons, MD, FRCPC, MMEd about managing grief and stress in the ICU when it hits too close to home. Dr. David Henderson, MD, CCFP(PC) is the moderator.
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Children's grief and bereavement certificate
2021-04-14 09:00 - 16:00
Event hosted by: Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Dates: April 14, 21, 28, May 5 and 12, 2021 9am-4pm
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN, MA, RP, Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S, Lysa Toye, MSW, RSW, and (Rev.) Andrew Blake, RP
This training is suitable for: Any professional or volunteer who is in a position to influence the support received by a grieving child. This includes front-line workers and volunteers such as medical professionals, educators, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers and hospice volunteers.
Overview: Grief is a confusing and isolating experience for any person, old or young. Children’s grief, however, differs considerably from adult grief, resulting in the needs of grieving children often being overlooked or misunderstood. This can have a profound impact on the social and emotional development of a child. Caregivers, including the most skilled professionals, often feel helpless when supporting children through the death of someone close to them.
The children’s grief and bereavement certificate program explores the roots of our cultural discomfort with the topic of children and death and exposes common myths and misconceptions. This certificate program aims to equip you with skills to provide support to children, youth and families grieving the dying or death of someone they care about. Adults cannot change the reality of a death occurring in a child’s life, but with the right tools they can play a powerful role in shaping the story of the child’s grief experience and therefore help the child thrive in life.
The individual webinars may be taken separate from the certificate program as stand-alone trainings; however, all five webinars must be completed to obtain the certificate.
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Public Policy & Advocacy for Serious Illness Care
2021-04-15 09:00 - 10:00
Event hosted by: Ariadne Labs
Join us for a panel discussion about the intersection of serious illness care, palliative care, advanced care planning, and public policy. Moderator, Jane Conrad, Serious Illness Care Ambassador and Patient Advocate, will share her experience as a caregiver and patient advocate. Panelists Paul Tatum and Phil Rogers will share their experience as leaders in Palliative Care-related Public Policy. Together, they will discuss the landscape of policy and advocacy for serious illness care to inform the audience about how policy impacts clinical care and patient experience, and strategies to get involved in advocacy at various levels.
(Please note this seminar is hosted out of the United States and therefor some information will be different than what exists in BC)
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Can we talk? How a shared language of care can promote a palliative approach to heart failure
2021-04-27 09:00 - 10:00
Event Hosted by: Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association (CPCNA)
Event cost: Free to members, $40 to non-members

How can a patient with advancing heart failure (HF) experience care that alleviates suffering and helps them to live their best life? While some progress has been made to integrate a palliative approach to the care of these patients and their families, challenges exist in bridging the two distinct care cultures of HF and Palliative Care. Essential to this important practice shift is the effective communication between health care providers, patients and their family caregivers. This presentation will explore how the Heart Failure Palliative Approach to Care (HeFPAC) was designed to build capacity for care through a shared language that fosters communication about priority issues that commonly arise in advanced HF.

Presenter Bio:

Patricia Strachan RN MSc PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. She is Chair of the Canadian Association Schools of Nursing Palliative and End-of-Life Care Interest Group and Co-Chair of the Healthcare Communication in Nursing Special Interest Group for the European Association for Communication in Healthcare. A passionate and innovative nurse educator, Patricia draws from the arts and philosophy to engage learners in imagining the possibilities for nursing.
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