BC Centre for Palliative Care

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.

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

Session 6 Topic – Prolonged Grief Disorder
2021-03-25 00:00
Presenter – Marney Thompson, RCC, MA, Director of Psychosocial Services, Victoria Hospice
Competencies –

Domain 1 – Principles of PC & palliative approach. Utilizes a holistic approach to care with awareness of how illness, death and bereavement impacts all aspects of person’s and family’s functioning.
Domain 3 – Communication. Provides the person and family/caregiver bereavement counselling and psychosocial education through evidence-based frameworks, if within role and expertise.
Domain 6: Loss, grief, & bereavement. Expert consultant regarding loss, grief, and bereavement. Assesses complex grief reactions and situations, such as multiple loss, traumatic loss, and pre-existing vulnerabilities including mental illness and addiction, abuse, and neglect.
Domain 8 – Self care. Understands and attends to the impact of death, dying and bereavement on caregivers (self, family, team, professionals).
Identify and define Prolonged Grief and distinguish it from ‘normal’ grief
Understand and describe the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of Prolonged Grief
Discuss and describe the theoretical orientations and basic interventions used in Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)

Illness, Suffering and Spirituality: The Path to Hope and Healing
2021-03-24 08:00 - 09:30
Event Organizer: Compassionate Ottawa
Event Cost: Free
In this conversation, Lorraine M. Wright will talk with Marion Rattray about practical and thoughtful ways that we can engage with each other when neighbours, friends, or patients are experiencing serious illness or loss in their lives, or are caring for a family member. Lorraine will draw on her own life experiences, tell stories, include humour and offer her perspective from her experience as a leader in the field of family nursing, as an academic with the University of Calgary, and as an author. This conversation will offer practical ideas and respond to questions from listeners.
To register click 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

Transforming the landscape of longterm care: What has COVID-19 taught us?
2021-03-10 17:30 - 18:30
Event Hosted by: Canadian Virtual Hospice
Event Cost: Free
Join us for a discussion about the impacts of COVID-19 on families and healthcare providers, integrating a palliative care approach and how to drive lasting improvements to long term care.
Email events@virtualhospice.ca to reserve your spot.

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.

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.

Click here to register

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.
Click here to register.

Briefing: Palliative Care Outlook in 2021 – Results of a National Survey (USA)
2021-02-25 09:30 - 10:30
Join us as Dr. Diane Meier reveals the findings of CAPC’s second COVID field survey. Nearly a year into the crisis, how has COVID-19 affected palliative care programs?
Who should attend: All palliative care professionals, and all health professionals focused on strengthening care for patients with serious illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CAPC is located in the United States so please be aware that the above mentioned survey results are in relation to American findings.
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.

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

Session 4 Topic – Anti-racist practice–Anti-Racist Tools for the Palliative Care Context Part 2
2021-01-28 00:00
Presenter – Frank Cohn, Jhevoi Melville, MSW, RSW, and Ayesha Sackey, all from VAST

Competencies – Domain 1 – Principles of PC & palliative approach. Promotes and supports the adaptation of palliative principles in all care settings through capacity building of other care providers/community partners as appropriate for role.
Domain 2 – Cultural safety & humility. Advocates for incorporation of the person’s and family’s cultural traditions, beliefs, expectations, and preferences into decision making, care planning and service delivery models.
Advocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.
Domain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address person’s fears and anxieties related to past trauma.
Domain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Participates in community awareness and engagement activities to build understanding, capacity, and inclusion. Addresses micro, meso, and macro factors that influence PC (e.g., internal and external barriers, social determinants of health).
Domain 8 – Self care. Identifies team and organizational barriers and issues and works collaboratively to address them. Promotes an organizational culture that is safe for expression of multiple perspectives and practicing within ambiguity.
Become aware of own level of Racism profile through use of self-assessment tools and anti-racism growth chart.
Become more comfortable with using anti-racism tools through application of ACTION tool to a case study. Describe how to respond competently to racial comments, behaviours, or policies in the workplace setting through a stance of cultural humility (compassionate, reflective, non-judgmental) in practice.
Describe the barriers to responding to racism and identify how racism in the workplace impacts individual staff, clients, client service, and organizational culture

A Gathering of Loss, Healing, and Hope
2020-12-21 17:00 - 17:45
Are you carrying sorrow this holiday season? Join Virtual Hospice’s free virtual gathering with spiritual leaders from across Canada to find consolation, hope, community, and light a candle honouring your loss.
Glen R. Horst, CVH Spiritual Care Advisor will lead a 45-minute virtual gathering featuring consolations and blessings from spiritual care leaders from across Canada to honour and acknowledge the grief we may carry. Find healing, hope, community, and light a candle with us.
When:
December 21, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. EST (7:00 p.m. CST, 5:00 p.m. PST)
Where:
Online at the Canadian Virtual Hospice YouTube page (The link will be live closer to the event. Also look for it on our Facebook, or Twitter accounts the weekend before the event).

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

Giving Tuesday: Saying Goodbye
2020-12-01
On #GivingTuesday, the Canadian Hospice Palliative Association (CHPCA) wants Canadians to know that grief is a shared journey that fosters compassion and encourages them to cope with their grief by supporting each other through living and grieving. We might be physically distant, but we are together in grief.
As COVID-19 continues to cause concern for our everyday welfare, the future has never felt so unpredictable. These are challenging times for everyone, as we deal with a global pandemic. While there’s a lot of uncertainty, we know that we need to adapt quickly to our changing reality. Now, more than ever, Canadians need access to hospice palliative care and support for caregivers. CHPCA is participating in #GivingTuesday which is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after the busy retail Black Friday that many charities and non-profits now consider the beginning of the giving season. Our campaign is executed digitally over social media on our website, FaceBook, and Twitter. ‏
For our #GivingTuesday 2020 campaign, our theme is “Saying Goodbye”. Because of so many restrictions on visitation, travel and gathering size, many people have not been able to say goodbye to their loved ones as they passed away. The CHPCA is offering Canadians the opportunity to Say Goodbye to a loved one that has passed during the pandemic by adding their loved one’s name to our Saying Goodbye Memorial Wall.
An estimated 300,000 Canadians will die in 2020, and for every one person who has died there are, on average, 5 or more loved ones who live on. They eventually must go on with their daily routines but may still be experiencing grief. With our Saying Goodbye campaign, we hope to acknowledge the grief that many Canadians are experiencing and hopefully help them not feel so alone in their grief.
This year’s #GivingTuesday call to action includes the following:
1. Sign your loved ones name on our Saying Goodbye Memorial Wall
2. Watch the Saying Goodbye Concert
3. Sign the Caregivers Declaration

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

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.
Register now

Media Relations, Social Media, Crisis Communications
2020-11-19 09:00 - 10:00
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.
Click Here to Register

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

Expand Your Influence as a Leader in Dementia Care
2020-11-24 10:00 - 12:00
Hosted by SafeCare BC
Your influence as a leader has a major impact on the success of your organization and the company culture. With the growing percentage of residents living with symptoms of dementia in long-term care homes, enhanced skills and transformed mindsets will be necessary. Join Karen Tyrell a Dementia Consultant and Joanna Li a specialist in Learning and Leadership Development on Nov. 24th from 10:00am – 12pm for an empowering and interactive workshop to help expand your influence as a leader in dementia care!
Duration: 2hrs (10:00am – 12:00pm)

To register for this workshop, please visit the Learning Space.

To complete registration:
• Sign up for an account,
• Select Expand Your Influence as a Leader in Dementia Care
• Select the November 24,2020 session
• Enroll.

CHPCA's Learning Institute
2020-11-12 07:00 - 2020-11-14 10:30
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association 2020 Virtual Learning Institute
Stream 1 – Communication in Serious Illness: An Innovative Approach to Clinical Care and Quality Improvements
Faculty: Justin J Sanders, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ariadne Labs; Nicole Wikjord, First Nations Health Authority; Kathleen Tue, BC Centre for Palliative Care; Dr. Gillian Fyles, BC Centre for Palliative Care; Elizabeth Beddard-Huber BC Centre for Palliative Care
Stream 2 – Psychosocial Learning
Faculty: Zelda Freitas, Caregiving, CREGÉS, CIUSSS; Marney Thompson, Victoria Hospice; Kathy Kortes-Miller, Centre for Education and Research On Aging and Health (CERAH); Patrick Durivage, CREGES domain of expertise in palliative care, CIUSSS
Stream 3 – ACP in Canada: New Tools in Community Care
Faculty: Cari Borenko Hoffmann, Fraser Health, UBC; Lauren Thomas, Fraser South, Fraser Health; Dr Eman Hassan, BC Centre for Palliative Care; Bob Parke
Stream 4: Compassionate Leadership and Compassionate Communities – where do we go from here?
Faculty: Dr Eman Hassan, BC Centre for Palliative Care; Deborah Sattler, Compassionate Community Communities of Practice, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO); Nadine Valk, Champlain Palliative Care Program; Sharon Baxter, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association; Susan Blacker, Cancer & Palliative Program Planning and
Performance Sinai Health System
The CHPCA is pleased to bring the Learning Institute to you for a new lower price! In addition to the virtual format, the newly lowered price will help make this exciting event more accessible to all Canadians!
The CHPCA is also thrilled to offer group discounts for groups of five or more attendees. Register your entire workplace or group to maximize learning from each of the fantastic learning streams!
Please email conference@chpca.net for more details about the group discount!
Click here to register.

The Impact of COVID-Related Grief on Palliative Care Clinicians
2020-11-11 09:00 - 10:00
Center to Advance Palliative Care – Master Clinician Series
Ray Hanbury, PhD, ABPP
Chief Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry; Director of Psychology Education, Jersey Shore University Medical Center
In this Master Clinician, Dr. Hanbury, a trauma psychology specialist, will present a framework for understanding loss and grief. After outlining natural responses to loss, Dr. Hanbury will listen to stories from several palliative care clinicians who are experiencing the emotional toll of COVID-19. He will offer guidance for a healthy response to these feelings, and then address questions from the audience. The dialogue between the presenter and participants will provide insight for everyone feeling the tremendous emotional impact of the pandemic.
Click here to register.

CANO/ACIO 2020 virtual conference: The Virtual Edition
2020-11-06 - 2020-11-08
Join us November 6 – 8 for the virtual edition of the CANO/ACIO 2020 Annual Conference.
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone on many fronts…emotionally, financially, and professionally. This year’s conference theme “Now and Forever Oncology Nursing” highlights both the importance and longevity of our specialty in cancer patient care. 2020 also has been declared the “Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” by the World Health Organization. It has never been more important to come together as a profession to support each other and celebrate oncology nursing.
• A poster presentation from Holly Prince and Allison Pedersen RN (Manitoba), MN, Clinical Nurse Specialist called: Indigenous Voices 2: Improving Care for Indigenous Patients and Families
• Presentation from Allison Pedersen RN (Manitoba), MN, Clinical Nurse Specialist called: An Exploration of Healthcare Provider Work-Related Grief and Strategies for Moving Through It, on Nov 7 at 10:20 ET
Click here for more information and to register: www.cano-acio.ca/event/canoacio2020

Sharing Stresses and Successes Town Hall
2020-11-04 16:00 - 17:00
The Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Group is hosting our a Town Hall on Wednesday November 4th at 1900 (EST) titled ‘Sharing Stresses and Successes’. We have found through sharing that many of us are doing just fine and finding way to effectively adapt and make it through COVID-19, and some still face various changes day-to-day. With infection control issues ramping up, we thought perhaps it was time to connect again.
We are pleased to share that Dr. David Wright, a nurse researcher at the University of Ottawa, and the Director or Research on the CHPCNG Board, is going to present a brief summary of his research titled:
Visitor restrictions, palliative care, and epistemic agency: A qualitative study of nurses’ relational practice during the coronavirus pandemic
Moderator: Kath Murray
Facilitator: Michelle O’Rourke
Details:
• Date Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
• Time 7pm EST– (4pm Pacific)
• Zoom platform
• Registration is required– please email jnesbitt@wrha.mb.ca if you wish to attend
• Space is limited so register early
• A list of resources related to “Self-Care and Resiliency – strategies for coping” is compiled and will be provided following the meeting.

Processing Trauma Experiences with Palliative Care Clients and Their Families
2020-11-04 09:00 - 10:00
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) invites you to attend Processing Trauma Experiences with Palliative Care Clients and Their Families 5 Part Webinar Series
Many Hospice Palliative Care Caregivers feel that they do not have the necessary skills and experience to help a Hospice Palliative Care Client process a historical or new trauma before they die. The format of the webinar series will be 40 minutes of information sharing on different aspects of doing trauma work with certain clients and then a 20 minute question and answer section. The sessions will also include how to continue to develop your trauma informed practice and program. This webinar series will be based on two Canadian Resources: The Trauma Informed Guide 2013 and The Trauma-informed Toolkit. This five part webinar will be applicable to all sectors of the hospice palliative care team.
Registration page
Facilitated by Eugene Dufour, BA, MDiv Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator, Certified Bereavement Specialist
Target audience: all sectors of Hospice Palliative Care including volunteers

There is a one-time fee of $125 + HST to attend all sessions
Session 1: Introductory Session on Trauma and Palliative Care – November 4, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Session 2: Palliative Care Trauma Work with Veterans – November 11, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Session 3: Palliative Care Trauma Work with Refugees – November 18, 2020 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST
Session 4: Palliative Care Trauma Work with First Nations – November 25, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Session 5: Revisiting Lessons Learned from the HIV/AIDS Trauma and Striving to Have a Compassionate Trauma Informed Practice and Program – December 2, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST

Family Medicine Forum (FMF) virtual conference: New World. New Experience
2020-11-04 - 2020-11-07
Family Medicine Forum (FMF) virtual conference: New World. New Experience
Nov 4-7, 2020
Join Canadian Virtual Hospice’s Dr. Christopher MacKinnon, PhD, Dr. Cornie Woelk, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP, and Viola Woelk’s presentation: Physicians, Heal Thyselves: Responding to workplace-related grief on November 6, 2020, at 11:30 a.m. EST.
This 1-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 80 Mainpro+ credits.
For more information on the rest of the FMF conference. Click here to register.

N95 Fit Testing
2020-11-03 08:30 - 2020-11-04 16:30
Hosted by SafeCare BC
We understand that fit-testing services for N95 respirators have become more scarce in some areas due to the pandemic and that this is a challenge for some of our members. We want to ensure that care settings that wish to fit-test their staff – for example, so that care staff can perform aerosol-generating medical procedures, or as preparedness for possible airborne pathogens or other respiratory hazards – can continue to do so. SafeCare BC is therefore offering two pilot fit-testing sessions in partnership with Mountainview Safety Services. This is not a Train-the-Trainer session, it is an opportunity for staff to be fit-tested.
These sessions will take place on November 3rd and 4th in the SafeCare BC Training Centre in Burnaby. Fit-testing will be provided on these days at a reduced cost of $10 per person. If you have any questions, please contact Jenni Cannon at jcannon@safecarebc.ca.
To register for this workshop, please visit the Learning Space.
To complete registration:

Sign up for an account,
Select N95 Fit Testing,
Select a 30-minute session time slot that works best for you. Sessions are limited to four people,
Enroll!
