BC Centre for Palliative Care

CPCNA Webinar: Celebrating pioneers in palliative care nursing: past and present
2021-05-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver)
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.
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Conversation Event (Terrace Hospice Society)
2021-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | online
Terrance Hospice Society (Northern BC)
Date: May 22, 2021
Time: 10:00am- 12:00pm
Location: Zoom
Register by May 20th, 2021
Call: (250)-635-4811
Email: vice.terracehospice@citywest.ca

Information Session Part 2 (Sunshine Coast Hospice Society)
2021-05-20 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-14 10:30 - 12:30 | online
To register
Call: (604) 740-0475
Email: acp@coasthospice.com

Information Session Part 1 (Sunshine Coast Hospice Society)
2021-05-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-11 10:30 - 12:30 | online

Bereavement Support Group
2021-04-06 18:30 - 20:00
Event hosted by: NEW WEST HOSPICE SOCIETY
Start date: April 6, 2021 for 8 weeks
To register, please contact bereavement@newwesthospice.ca or call 236-333-5150

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.
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Information Session Part 2 (Family Caregivers of British Columbia)
2021-05-13 14:00 - 15:00 | online
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdu2srDksGNeM6om-C1gRqUkd5mbvUttU
Call: (250) 940-4602
Email: lyciarodrigues@familycaregiversbc.ca
(online)

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

Conversation Event (Ridge Meadows Seniors Society)
2021-05-11 09:30 - 11:00 | online
Register by May 10, 2021
Call: (604) 380-0516
Email: raman@rmssseniors.org
(in-person)

Information Session Part 2 (CareRx)
2021-05-10 10:00 - 11:30
Register by Wednesday April 28, 2021
Call: (604) 679-1289
Email: carerx.vancouver@carerx.ca

Conversation Event (Sunshine Coast Hospice Society)
2021-05-07 10:30 - 12:00 | online
Register by May 5th
Call: (604) 740-0475
Email: acp@coasthospice.com

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.
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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

Information Session Part 2 (Adult Cognitive Wellness Centre)
2021-05-03 10:30 - 12:00 | online
To register
Call: (604) 655-0535
Email: info@CognitiveWellness.ca
(online)

Information Session Part 1 (CareRx)
2021-05-03 10:00 - 11:30

Information Session Part 1 (Family Caregivers of British Columbia)
2021-04-29 14:00 - 15:00 | online

Session 7 Topic – Indigenous Health & Well-Being in a Palliative Care Context
2021-04-29 00:00
Presenter – First Nations Elder Bruce Robinson, Lexi Fisher, BSW, RSW, and Leah Walker, BSW, RSW, all with Kilala Lelum
Competencies –

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.
Facilitates expression and inclusion of the person’s and family’s values, beliefs, and wishes during declining health and bereavement.
Advocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.
Domain 3 – Communication. Provides support, mediation, and advocacy in exploring and clarifying treatment goals and care planning.
Domain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address persons fears and anxieties related to past trauma.
Understands, educates, and works with the person/family and inter-professional team about the interplay of spiritual, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical aspects of the person’s past experiences on their current quality of life.
Domain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Advocates at a system and community level
Describe strategies and approaches people can use in their clinical practice to honour and value the stories of Indigenous peoples in a respectful way that builds trusting relationship and allyship, fosters connections, and allows Indigenous voices to be heard at all stages of life

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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Information Session Part 1 (Adult Cognitive Wellness Centre)
2021-04-26 10:30 - 12:00 | online

Conversation Event (CareRx)
2021-04-26 10:00 - 11:30 | online
Register by Wednesday April 21, 2021
Call: (604) 679-1289
Email: carerx.vancouver@carerx.ca

Conversation Event (Sunshine Coast Hospice Society)
2021-04-22 10:30 - 12:00 | online
Register by April 16, 2021
Call: (604) 740-0475
Email: acp@coasthospice.com
(online)
