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SUMMARY:Part 1: Learn How to Facilitate Well-Being Debriefings within Your Organization
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nIn 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. \nThis 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. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/part-1-learn-how-to-facilitate-well-being-debriefings-within-your-organization/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Palliative Care,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210303T160000
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SUMMARY:CPCNA Sharing Stresses and Successes: Wellness Check-In
DESCRIPTION:Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association Town Halls (COVID-19) \nThis 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. \n  \nClick here to register
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/cpcna-sharing-stresses-and-successes-wellness-check-in/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210309T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210309T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183009
CREATED:20210218T194913Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for Pediatrics and Polypharmacy
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by: Ariadne Labs \nMany 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. \nDr. 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. \nOpen to members of the Community of Practice. \nRegister here.
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/webinar-adapting-the-serious-illness-conversation-guide-for-pediatrics-and-polypharmacy/
CATEGORIES:Palliative Care,Pediatric,Serious Illness Conversation,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210310T173000
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SUMMARY:Transforming the landscape of longterm care: What has COVID-19 taught us?
DESCRIPTION:Event Hosted by: Canadian Virtual Hospice \nEvent Cost: Free \nJoin 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. \nEmail events@virtualhospice.ca to reserve your spot.
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/transforming-the-landscape-of-longterm-care-what-has-covid-19-taught-us/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Palliative Care,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210317T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183009
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SUMMARY:Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Discussions: Getting us all on the same page (plus practical tips!)
DESCRIPTION:Event Organizer: Pallium Canada \nEvent Host and Moderator: Dr. José Pereira MBChB\, CFPC(PC)\, MSc\, FCFP\nPanelists: Jeff Myers MD\, MSEd\, CCFP(PC) and Leah Steinberg MD\, MA\, CFCP \nDespite 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. \nThe 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. \nTo register click here
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/advance-care-planning-and-goals-of-care-discussions-getting-us-all-on-the-same-page-plus-practical-tips/
CATEGORIES:Advance Care Planning,Palliative Care,Webinar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210324T093000
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SUMMARY:Illness\, Suffering and Spirituality: The Path to Hope and Healing
DESCRIPTION:Event Organizer: Compassionate Ottawa \nEvent Cost: Free \nIn 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. \nTo register click here.
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/illness-suffering-and-spirituality-the-path-to-hope-and-healing/
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SUMMARY:Session 6 Topic – Prolonged Grief Disorder 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – Marney Thompson\, RCC\, MA\, Director of Psychosocial Services\, Victoria Hospice\nCompetencies –\n\nDomain 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.\nDomain 3 – Communication. Provides the person and family/caregiver bereavement counselling and psychosocial education through evidence-based frameworks\, if within role and expertise.\nDomain 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.\nDomain 8 – Self care. Understands and attends to the impact of death\, dying and bereavement on caregivers (self\, family\, team\, professionals).\nIdentify and define Prolonged Grief and distinguish it from ‘normal’ grief\nUnderstand and describe the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of Prolonged Grief\nDiscuss and describe the theoretical orientations and basic interventions used in Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-6-topic-prolonged-grief-disorder/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 2
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210330T133000
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SUMMARY:Families matter: BCCPA’s free webinar to address grief and loss over COVID care home restrictions
DESCRIPTION:Event hosted by: BC Care Providers Association \nOn 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. \nThere 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. \nWith 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. \nWhile this webinar will be geared toward long-term care and assisted living providers\, all are welcome to attend this free event. \nModerator:\nMike Klassen\, VP Public Affairs\, BC Care Providers Association\n\nPanelists:\nSarah Eveneshen\, Provincial Coordinator\, Program Development\, Alzheimer Society of B.C.\nBarb Mclean\, CEO\, Family Caregivers of BC\nKim Slater\, Vancouver Island Association of Family Councils \nTo register click here
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/families-matter-bccpas-free-webinar-to-address-grief-and-loss-over-covid-care-home-restrictions/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Palliative Care,Webinar
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