[Ontario Opportunity] Free palliative and end-of-life education for interprofessional long-term care teams

For Ontario LTC homes that want to build their team’s competencies and capacity in interprofessional palliative care. An 8-hour virtual training program to help your team build confidence in communicating about and strengthening resident-centred palliative care.

• Sessions will run from 8:30 AM ET to 4:30 PM ET (with breaks)
• Virtual training through Zoom
• Training is offered in English and French
• CNA Accredited; 9 hours
• Free
• Limited amount of wage support available for participating learners on request
• Prerequisite eLearning Series (1 hour)

• One application from each Ontario LTC home
• The application must be approved by the Administrator
• Attendance by a minimum of 3 interprofessional team members
• Names, roles and email address of learners must be listed (can be changed later)
• A laptop/computer/tablet connected to Wifi, audio and webcam for each team member (team members cannot attend together using one screen)

• Change the way you communicate about palliative care
• Change the way you support palliative care
• Explain the importance of cultural humility in the delivery of palliative care
• Determine ways you can contribute to a grief-friendly work environment

• Lesson 1: What is palliative care?
• Lesson 2: Palliative care sooner rather than later
• Lesson 3: Palliative care is everyone’s responsibility
• Lesson 4: Increasing comfort talking about dying and death
• Lesson 5: Grief is normal

If you have any questions, contact a member of the Ontario CLRI at Bruyère team at ceolfund@bruyere.org or 613-562-6262, Ext. 1985.