Events for Health-Care Professionals
The team at BCCPC has gathered links to education events designed for Health Care Providers caring for people affected by life-limiting illness. The events are not created or endorsed by BCCPC unless stated in the description.
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Cultural Safety & Humility (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session summary and discussion notes This session explores concepts such as privilege and how it can lead to culturally inappropriate care. Scenarios will be presented to learners and the session will focus on recognizing ways to respond, identifying that each individual we care for is unique, and understanding personal and systemic biases to […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Communication & Virtual Care (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session discussion summary This session we will discuss foundational communication skills such as active listening. We will also explore a person-centered framework used to guide conversations focusing on what’s important to a person with life-limiting illness. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss providing virtual care and ways to provide person-centered care […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Optimizing Comfort & Quality of Life & Last Days and Hours (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session discussion summary This session is an introduction to promoting comfort and quality of life for people with life-limiting illness. Learners will discuss applying the steps of symptom management and supporting wellness to a case study. We will also discuss what the last days and hours of someone’s life can look like as […]
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Inking the Bond
onlineSession resources Session summary notes session recording: YouTube video Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series This talk is a conversation about tattoos, grief, and growth. Stories will be drawn from research and personal experience. The three speakers are all social workers who love to talk about tattoos, the intersection of taboo, the […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Loss, Grief & Bereavement (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session discussion summary In this session we will discuss how each person’s grief experience is unique. Participants will work through scenarios discussing ways to support patients and colleagues. Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Self-care (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session summary notes As healthcare providers we know self-care is important yet it’s something many of us may not take time to reflect on. This session we will reflect on our own self-care needs in relation to supporting patients approaching end of life. We will also discuss ways to support each other as […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Care Planning, Collaborative Practice & Advocacy (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session summary notes We will identify the importance of determining a person's goals for their care at end of life and discuss key elements of anticipatory care planning along with some ideas on what advocacy in your role can look like. Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Ethical practice, Education, Evaluation, Quality Improvement & Research (Summer 2025)
Session resources Session summary notes In this session we will identify and discuss common ethical issues in palliative care and we will talk through steps to take in addressing ethical issues by discussing a case scenario. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how education, evaluation, QI and research are important in palliative care context. […]
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Experiencing Grief as a Health Care Provider
onlineSession resources Session recording: YouTube session summary notes Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series Front-line nurses, and clinicians, carry the weight of repeated loss — sitting with patients in their final moments, then moving immediately to the next urgent task. Research in hospice and palliative care shows this cumulative, often unacknowledged grief […]
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Empowering Palliative Patients and Families in BC: A Unique Palliative Navigation Program
Session resources: Session recording link: YouTube Session summary note Part of the All Together ECHO Series This volunteer-based program has supported palliative patients and families from the Ismaili Community in the Lower Mainland since 2017. The presenter will share the team’s key experiences and learnings and will review the unique tools that the program has […]
