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.
Conversation Event (CareRx)
onlineRegister by Wednesday April 21, 2021 Call: (604) 679-1289 Email: [email protected]
Information Session Part 1 (Adult Cognitive Wellness Centre)
onlineTo register Call:Â (604) 655-0535 Email:Â [email protected] (online)
Can we talk? How a shared language of care can promote a palliative approach to heart failure
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 […]
Bereavement Support Group
Event hosted by: NEW WEST HOSPICE SOCIETY Start date: April 6, 2021 for 8 weeks To register, please contact [email protected] or call 236-333-5150
Children’s grief and bereavement certificate
Event hosted by: Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association Dates: April 14, 21, 28, May 5 and 12, 2021Â Â 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 […]
Session 7  Topic – Indigenous Health & Well-Being in a Palliative Care Context   Â
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 lifeÂ
Information Session Part 1 (Family Caregivers of British Columbia)
onlineRegister at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdu2srDksGNeM6om-C1gRqUkd5mbvUttU Call:Â (250) 940-4602 Email:Â [email protected] (online)
Information Session Part 1 (CareRx)
Register by Wednesday April 28, 2021 Call: (604) 679-1289 Email: [email protected]
Information Session Part 2 (Adult Cognitive Wellness Centre)
onlineTo register Call:Â (604) 655-0535 Email:Â [email protected] (online)
Webinar Series: Experiences of providing care during COVID
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 […]