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.
Calling All Health Care Assistants
COVID-19 is affecting each one of us and the people and families we care for. We at the BC Centre for Palliative Care and at Life and Death Matters want to support you during this challenging time. We invite you, the heroes on the front-line, to an informal chat (like a visit around the kitchen […]
Grief and COVID-19 for healthcare providers: Staying connected in a time of loss and uncertainty
Free webinar through Canadian Virtual Hospice. Presenters: Dr. Christopher MacKinnon (PhD, OPQ) and Marney Thompson (MA, RCC) To join the meeting: https://canadianvirtualhospice.adobeconnect.com/cvhcovid/ To optimize your experience, please download the Adobe Connect application. Please close any other programs or webpages before joining the webinar. April 24th webinar available to watch and webinar slides.
Providing Virtual Palliative Care
This webinar will cover virtual care in the time of COVID-19. Panelists will discuss how they started providing virtual care, what changes they’ve made since the pandemic, and what resources have helped them adapt. Host: Dr. José Pereira Moderator: Dr. J. David Henderson Panelists: Dr. Naheed Dosani, Dr. Robert Horton, Dr. Denise Marshall, and Dr. […]
Advance Care Planning & Serious Illness Conversations
Spotlight Series Presents: Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Conversations – Lessons for Improvement COVID-19 has heightened awareness of the need for people of all ages and all states of illness or health to reflect on what matters to them and what kind of care they would want in the future should they become seriously […]
Calling All Health Care Assistants
COVID-19 is affecting each one of us and the people and families we care for. We at the BC Centre for Palliative Care and at Life and Death Matters want to support you during this challenging time. We invite you, the heroes on the front-line, to an informal chat (like a visit around the kitchen […]
ESSENTIAL CONVERSATIONS: Utilizing Advance Care Planning & Serious Illness Tools During COVID-19 and Throughout the Patient Journey
During this global pandemic, health care professionals and organizations around the world have further recognized the need to engage in proactive (before a health crisis) Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness conversations with at-risk patients. Join this conversation to learn how to identify at-risk patients in the context of COVID-19, prepare yourself and your patients, […]
Sharing Stories & Stresses
The CHPC Nurses Group invites you to join together for an hour of ‘Sharing Stories and Stresses’. Meet with friends and colleagues from across Canada for an informal sharing of stories and stresses in this time of COVID-19. The purpose of this gathering is to provide a safe place to connect, support and learn from […]
Best Practices in Adoption of TeleHealth: COVID and Beyond mini-series
This series is open to all primary and ambulatory healthcare workers across the globe using or planning on using electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care and patient education. Telehealth can address COVID-19 and other epidemic situations by limiting exposure to infection for vulnerable populations and health care workers […]
Grief and COVID-19 for healthcare providers: Staying connected in a time of loss and uncertainty
Free webinar through Canadian Virtual Hospice. Presenters: Dr. Christopher MacKinnon (PhD, OPQ) and Marney Thompson (MA, RCC) To join the meeting: https://canadianvirtualhospice.adobeconnect.com/cvhcovid/ To optimize your experience, please download the Adobe Connect application. Please close any other programs or webpages before joining the webinar. *Teleconference is not offered. Please ensure that your computer speakers are […]
“How Am I Supposed to Feel About This?” Addressing Moral Distress Caused by COVID-19
This Master Clinician session provides a unique opportunity to discuss COVID-related issues of moral distress with Ira Bedzow, PhD, Director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, and Senior Scholar at the Aspen Center for Social Values. Dr. Bedzow will offer a framework for examining one’s own moral distress by […]
