Media Relations, Social Media, Crisis Communications
2020-11-19 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver)
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association invites you to attend a suite of webinars on Media Relations, Social Media, Crisis Communication
Begins Thurs, Nov 19 9-10am PST
The following suite of sessions focusses on understanding and preparing for communications planning, media relations and social media. Each session is led by former journalist and news anchor Jennifer Mossop. Please click on each link below to read full session descriptions and to register. Note: sessions will not be recorded.
Target Audience
Healthcare Administration and Organizational Leadership
Get Social!
Thursday, November 19, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST Click Here to Register
Be Prepared! Crisis Communications Planning and Prep Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST Click Here to Register
News Media 101 Plus
Thursday, November 26, 2020, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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Media Spokesperson Training can be booked on a small group or one-on-one basis.
Please contact Jennifer Mossop to discuss your needs. JMossop@HPCO.ca Jennifer@mossopmedia.com 519-619-2227

National Bereavement Day Webinar
2020-11-26 09:00 - 10:30
Please join the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) and the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada (QELCCC) for a free webinar to learn about new exciting work being done!
November 26, 2020 9am-10:30am PDT
In this webinar: Updates from National Bereavement Day – highlights of the 2020 National Bereavement Day and Saying Goodbye Virtual Concert from the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA – Review of the Grief and Bereavement Scoping Review from the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada’s (QELCCC) Research and Knowledge Translation (KT) Committe – Learn about the regional Grief and Bereavement Planning Project from the Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program
Speakers:
Sharon Baxter, MSW – Executive Director, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA; and Secretariat of the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada (QELCCC), Christopher A. Klinger, PhD – Chair, Research and Knowledge Translation Committee, Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada (QELCCC); Chair; End-of-Life Issues Theme Team, National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE); and Research Scientist, Pallium Canada, Neerjah Skantharajah, MHSc(c) – Graduate Student, Translational Research Program (TRP), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, and Tara Cohen, MSW – Program Manager, Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program and Registered Social Worker in Private Practice.
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Managing Stress and Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2020-11-30 07:00 - 08:30
Project ECHO COVID-19 Global Conversations
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of individuals across the globe. Healthcare workers are particularly vulnerable to burnout and increased stress. This session addresses:
• Impact of COVID-19 on mental health
• Managing burnout for healthcare employees
• Individual practices to promote resiliency
Presenter: Jeff Katzman, MD
Vice Chair of Clinical and Academic Affairs,
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Facilitator: Sanjeev Arora, MD
Director, Project ECHO
The session will include didactic presentations and Q & A. Click here to view the agenda.
REGISTER HERE

Managing Through the COVID-19 Crisis
2020-11-02 08:00 - 09:00
Center to Advance Palliative Care
This Virtual Office Hour is free and open to all, but space is limited. Sessions will be added on an ongoing basis.
This session will provide an opportunity to discuss managing the before, during, and after of the COVID-19 pandemic and the short- and long-term impact on your palliative care program. Questions during this session may include:

What lessons have been learned based on the response strategy of frontline clinicians?
How do I address communication challenges with family discussions that cannot be done in person?
How do you extend services with limited resources?

Presented by: Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, Tom Gualtieri-Reed, MBA

CPCNA Town Hall: Sharing Stresses and Successes: Love in Professional Practice
2021-02-03 16:00 - 17:00
Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association Town Halls (COVID-19)
This is an opportunity to connect with palliative care nurses from across Canada to share our stresses and successes in practice in the face of COVID- 19. Kath Murray, and educator and author, will be presenting briefly on the Ten Principles of Love in Practice, followed by group discussion.
Click here to register

Implementing the COVID-19 Toolkit and Best Practices for Serious Illness Conversations using Telehealth
2021-02-09 09:00 - 10:00
The next webinar from the Serious Illness Care Community at Ariadne Labs will be tomorrow, February 9 at 12 pm ET (New York/America).
Drs. Erik Fromme and Suzanne Mitchell, Ariadne Labs Faculty, and Nancy Joyner, NP and Danielle Miltz, PA, Community of Practice Ambassadors. Dr. Fromme will give a short overview of the Serious Illness Care Program’s COVID-19 Toolkit and Dr. Mitchell will describe how Boston Medical Center has implemented elements of the COVID-19 Toolkit as part of their Pandemic response. Next, Dr. Fromme, Ms. Joyner, and Ms. Miltz will discuss best practices and cases for serious illness conversations during telehealth encounters using both phone and video platforms.
Registration (link below) is required.
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Meeting Registration – Zoom

The Serious Illness Care Program’s COVID-19 Toolkit was developed in Spring 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic in the United States. It includes four conversation guides adapted to the context of COVID-19 for use in inpatient, outpatient, long-term care and crisis standards settings. There are video demonstrations of clinicians using the guides, as well as tools to support implementation and patient-facing resources.
Webinars are presented live, and are recorded. Recordings and slides of past webinars are available on the Ariadne community of practice website, Aria.

Part 1: Learn How to Facilitate Well-Being Debriefings within Your Organization
2021-03-03 09:00 - 10:00
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.
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. Peer-facilitated 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 when coping with difficult issues. The result: positive impact on well-being, personal resiliency, improved patient care, and reduced feelings of burnout.
In the first webinar, attendees will learn: how well-being debriefings help health care workers; how to get buy-in from leadership; the debriefing format and role of the facilitator; how to validate the normal, expectable stress that accompanies our work; and how to navigate challenging group situations.
This webinar will be followed by part two, in which attendees will practice the techniques discussed in part one, and have opportunities to practice and reflect.
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CPCNA Sharing Stresses and Successes: Wellness Check-In
2021-03-03 16:00 - 17:00
Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association Town Halls (COVID-19)
This is an opportunity to connect with palliative care nurses from across Canada to share our stresses and successes in practice in the face of COVID- 19. Michelle O’Rourke, a nurse author and counsellor, will guide our discussion as we discuss how we are doing after a year of providing care and living with COVID-19 restrictions for the past year.

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Webinar: Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for Pediatrics and Polypharmacy
2021-03-09 09:00 - 10:00
Hosted by: Ariadne Labs
Many members of the Community of Practice have expressed interest in adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to better serve their specific patient population or practice setting. This month, we welcome Drs. Danielle DeCourcey and Kristie Weir to describe why they chose to use the conversation guide and how they adapted it for use in two different, and very important, care settings.
Dr. DeCourcey will share her adaptation process of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for use with adolescents and young adults, and a different guide for parents of adolescents and young adults with serious illness. Dr. Weir will discuss her adaptation of the Guide to determine use of multiple medicines in patients. This webinar will have recorded presentations from both speakers but feature a live Question and Answer session.
Open to members of the Community of Practice.
Register here.

Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Discussions: Getting us all on the same page (plus practical tips!)
2021-03-17 12:00 - 13:00
Event Organizer: Pallium Canada
Event Host and Moderator: Dr. José Pereira MBChB, CFPC(PC), MSc, FCFP
Panelists: Jeff Myers MD, MSEd, CCFP(PC) and Leah Steinberg MD, MA, CFCP
Despite advance care planning (ACP) and goals of care discussions (GOCD) becoming healthcare priorities, there remains widespread uncertainties about the overall purpose, approaches and outcomes of ACP and GOCD. This has led to confusion among clinicians. We will discuss the relationship and differences between ACP and GOCD, what is involved with each, and how values-based decisions can be made. Practical guides and communication tips will also be addressed.
The webinar is free and open to all health care professionals and will be hosted in English. Please spread the word to your colleagues who may be interested.
To register click here

Families matter: BCCPA’s free webinar to address grief and loss over COVID care home restrictions
2021-03-30 12:00 - 13:30
Event hosted by: BC Care Providers Association
On March 2, 2021, Dr. Henry indicated that the province was looking to reallow family visits in long-term care and assisted living as early as the end of this month. From the perspective of the BC Care Providers Association, this news is heartening, as the association has been advocating to reinstate family visits for many months.
There are many things to consider as our members look towards welcoming family caregivers back into long-term care and assisted living homes. Particularly, it is likely that upon being reunited with residents, some family members will experience feelings of grief and loss. In many cases, these emotions will be triggered by the physical and cognitive changes they notice after being apart from their family members for such a long period of time.
With guests from the Alzheimer Society of B.C., the Family Caregivers of B.C., and the Vancouver Island Association of Family Councils, this webinar will provide an overview of the support services which long-term care and assisted living staff can draw on to support family caregivers.
While this webinar will be geared toward long-term care and assisted living providers, all are welcome to attend this free event.
Moderator:
Mike Klassen, VP Public Affairs, BC Care Providers Association

Panelists:
Sarah Eveneshen, Provincial Coordinator, Program Development, Alzheimer Society of B.C.
Barb Mclean, CEO, Family Caregivers of BC
Kim Slater, Vancouver Island Association of Family Councils
To register click here

Part 2: Learn How to Facilitate Well-Being Debriefings within Your Organization
2021-04-01 09:00 - 10:00
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.
To register click here

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.
To register please click here

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.
To register for webinar series or an individual event click here
To save 10% use promo code: CHPCA10

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)
To register for this event click here
To become a member of this Community of Practice click here

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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Webinar Series: Experiences of providing care during COVID
2021-05-04 13:00 - 14:00
Event hosted by: Life & Death Matters Inc., Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association.
These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness.
PSWs are in a unique position to support individuals, this has been particularly important during COVID when visitors have been restricted. Listen to stories gathered during the past year, and share your own stories of the stresses, struggles and successes of this past year.
Guest Speaker: Dr. David Wright, University of Ottawa
To register for an individual webinar or the whole series click here

CPCNA Town Hall: Rituals for Coping
2021-05-05 19:00 - 20:00
Event hosted by: Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association
The general topic for this Town Hall will be about the Stresses and Successes of living with COVID-19 personally and professionally.

Rituals for Coping
We have just passed the one-year mark of living with COVID-19. Regardless of where we live in Canada, we are all hoping for light at the end of the tunnel but we continue to be faced with the roller coaster that has become life. Once again we face restrictions on day-to-day life. In the April Town Hall, we reflected on you, those who have attended the town halls, those who are members, and our nursing colleagues across the country. We extend our thoughts, our care, our concern. In some ways, this coming month might be one of the most frustrating experiences as we hope for vaccinations to do their job and as we hope for better days.
We know that during the past year, we have all floundered at time as we developed ways of coping to get through difficult moments, difficult situations and made difficult decisions. In our next town hall, Michelle O’ Rourke RN and Kath Murray RN will lead a discussion about rituals, and how rituals can help us in difficult times. You are invited to bring a small candle to light as part of a ritual that we will develop together.
To register click here

Webinar: Guide Training Adaptations for Remote & Hybrid Work
2021-05-18 09:00 - 10:00
Event hosted by: Ariadne Labs
Join us to learn about three different models for adapting the Serious Illness Care Conversation Guide Training to meet the needs of remote and hybrid work environments. As remote and hybrid work became more prevalent over the last year, systems implementing the Serious Illness Care Program rapidly transitioned the in-person training, consisting of didactic and skills practice sessions, to fully- or partially-virtual modes of delivery. In this webinar, we will hear from Drs. Rachelle Bernacki, Trish Ford, and Seiko Izumi about each of their adaptations to the training, and the pros and cons to each. Additionally, we’ll learn tips about how to plan your own virtual training from SICP CoP Ambassador, Danielle Miltz, with input from fellow Ambassadors, Emma Penti, Nancy Joyner, and Lynn Aiksnoras.
We look forward to hearing your adaptations, learnings, and questions.
To register for this event click here

CPCNA Webinar: Celebrating pioneers in palliative care nursing: past and present
2021-05-25 09:00 - 10:00
Event hosted by:​ Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association (CPCNA)
Event cost: FREE for Members
$40 for non-Members
There is limited capacity so register early!
CPCNA is pleased to present Marie Cooper RN BSc MSc, Project Lead at St Christopher’s Hospice (UK) who will be speaking to us on Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 at 1200-1300 (EST).
“Celebrating pioneers in palliative care nursing: past and present”
​In May we celebrate Nursing Week and Hospice Palliative Care Week. What better way to do this, than to look to historic leaders, Florence Nightingale and Dame Cecily Saunders, as well as showcase current examples of pioneering nursing leadership. In this CPCNA webinar, Marie Cooper RN, BSc, MSc, Project Lead for St Christopher’s Hospice program, “Celebrating Palliative Care Nursing” will reflect on 8 pioneering qualities exemplified by Dame Cicely Saunders (founder of the modern hospice movement) and Florence Nightingale (founder of modern nursing). She will also share current examples of palliative care nurse pioneers throughout the world and help us consider what these characteristics and qualities means to each of us in our work.
To register click here

Webinar Series: Addressing our grief associated with COVID
2021-06-01 13:00 - 14:00
Event hosted by: This series of webinars is brought to you through a partnership between Life & Death Matters Inc., Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association.
These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness.
We have experienced so much loss during this past year, loss of life, loss of jobs, loss of control and loss of life as we have known it. Come together in this session to learn about the grief experience, and identify strategies to support processing and healing.
Presented by Michelle O’Rourke
The series will break for the summer, and resume in September.
To register for an individual event or the whole series click here

The role of nurses in equity-oriented palliative care
2021-06-16 09:00 - 10:00
Event hosted by: CPCNA
Registration:

FREE for Members

$40 for non-Members

There is limited capacity so register early!

CPCNA is pleased to present Dan Grover, RN, BN, BSc and Kelli Stajduhar, RN, PhD, FCAHS, FCAN who will be speaking to us on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 9-10am
While increasingly recognized as a human right, access to palliative care is still not a given. Even though palliative care as a concept seems to be unanimously supported, it is still not readily available to all Canadians. Those who do benefit from palliative care services tend to also benefit from higher socio-economic status and family support, as opposed to those people facing the end-of-life who also face inequities like homelessness, poverty, isolation, racism, and stigma. In our presentation, we will discuss the key roles that nurses can play to facilitate equity-oriented palliative car, in order to promote “palliative care for all” who need it in our communities. Lessons learned from our work in inner city mobile palliative care will be shared.

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Webinar Series: Fatigue, burnout, and resilience
2021-09-07 13:00 - 14:00
Event hosted by: Life & Death Matters Inc., Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association.
These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness.
During this past year, many PSWs have experienced fatigue, burnout and exhaustion. Learn about the concept of resilience and how resilience is strengthened through strategies such as self-care, self-reflection and self-compassion.
Presented by Michelle O’Rourke
To register for an individual event or the whole series click here

Kids Grief Q and A
2021-09-13 10:00 - 11:00
Event hosted by: Canadian Virtual Hospice
Event cost: Free
Andrea Warnick, children’s grief therapist answers your questions. To stay informed about the date and time of upcoming webinars and to receive webinar links and recordings click here
