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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 life 

Competencies – Domain 5 – Care planning & collaborative practice. Explores MAiD-related feelings, worries, and hopes with people and their family. May provide leadership in case reviews and debriefings. Leads/facilitates inter-professional team and family meetings to plan care that addresses complex psychosocial issues. Advocates for the role of the social worker/counsellor in responding to complex situations.  Domain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Facilitates inter-professional team reflection to identify group values and ethical practices, and the impact of these on people, families, and the team Describe the context of MAiD including changes with new legislation, Bill C-7  Distinguish between desire to die statements and requests for MAiD and describe strategies for responding appropriately to each  Identify areas for assessment with a request for MAiD, including the patient, family, and staff  Understand how to contact MAiD co-ordinators in each health authority  Understand where to look for additional information and resources on MAiD