Fall means crisp leaves, cooler mornings, and to many swinging back into education. BCCPC’s ECHO program has learning opportunities this fall that are too good to miss!
(and scroll down for news on changes to the ECHO team)
For Health Care Providers On the Go
Flexing Your Core: the 30-minute Palliative Workout is a new ECHO series for anyone working with people who are affected by serious illness incorporating the palliative approach to care into your daily practice in any clinical setting.
In these short 30-minute sessions will combine the expertise of session facilitators who bring a deep understanding of the core palliative competencies with the invaluable insights of the context experts – you – who will share how you have applied the competencies in your own experiences, leveraging your unique resourcefulness and inventiveness. Together, you will work through case study discussions and scenarios based on the 8 Domains of the core palliative competencies (page 11-12) and from the foundational lessons in Strengthen Your Core, available on the Learning Hub.
Sign up today for Flexing Your Core: the 30-minute Palliative Workout: Information & Registration
For Health Care Professionals using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Are you trained in the use of the Serious Illness Conversation guide? Do you champion SIC in your Health Authority or workplace? Then Serious Illness Conversation Training for Facilitators and Clinicians is for you! These ECHO sessions offer opportunities for you to continue to refine your practice and use of the SIC guide, and how to implement, integrate, spread and sustain the use of SIC in routine clinical practice.
Join us on October 20 for a valuable ECHO on using coaching and mentoring as tools toward health system improvement. This session will be facilitated by Cari Borenko, BA BSW RSW MHS, Lead, Advance Care Planning and Andrew Saunderson, BSW, MSW, RSW Social Worker, Advance Care Planning from Fraser Health.
Register here for SIC and Coaching Mentoring Strategies
For Psychosocial Health Care Providers
Psychosocial ECHO final theme on Ethics – Co-created by and for psychosocial health care providers, the final theme of the program, Ethical Tensions in Psychosocial Palliative Care.
Ethics can be a thoughtful, intentional, and systematic evaluation of the values, beliefs, and feelings that underpin our everyday thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. This theme explores how best to elicit the values, beliefs, and feelings of all stakeholders. This process will ensure that all voices are clearly acknowledged, validated, and accurately reflected in any ethical decision-making with patients, families, and the care team.
Participants will be introduced to decision-making frameworks, ethical principles, and perspectives that can guide them through ethical challenges in their daily practice. We will explore ways to respond to ethical/moral distress (when what you value is compromised or your ability to do what you believe is right is impeded), along with how to create a safe workplace to raise ethical concerns among the care team.
Register for the next session here https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/echo-psychosocial-series-ethical-tensions-session-2-tickets-410861567007
ECHO team: saying Hello and Goodbye
There are some changes going on behind the scenes of BCCPC’s ECHO program:
After nearly a year supporting the ECHO project, we said goodbye to Briar Mayoh at the end of August. She is taking a new and exciting position with the Patient Safety Quality Counsel, and we wish her well in her new role and are grateful for the time, support, and energy she brought to the ECHO program.
Hello Stephanie! Stephanie Stuerle has returned from maternity leave, and we are so pleased to have her back working part time (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) as the ECHO coordinator. Stephanie will take over the daily operations of our current ECHO sessions, supporting the hub teams through the delivery of their sessions and will support Tina in developing new hubs and programs.
