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Responding to Expressions of Distress: The Advanced Application of the Palliative Approach to Care EXCLUSIVE EVENING SYMPOSIUM

October 2 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Hear from local Palliative Care Specialists!

Accredited and certified for up to 1.5 Mainpro+® credits

More announcements on speakers coming soon.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify the different ways that patients and caregivers express distress, and develop an approach to responding in a culturally appropriate and trauma-informed manner
  2. Appreciate that not all expressions of a desire for a hastened death are a wish to die, or a request for MAiD
  3. Integrate responding to requests for hastened death and a palliative approach to care

Where:

The Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre, Thunder Bay

OR

Virtually via Zoom

When:

October 2, 2024 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (dinner for in-person participants will begin at 5:30 pm; accredited education session will begin at 6:00 pm)

Fees:

 IN-PERSON REGISTRATION*   VIRTUAL REGISTRATION 
 Physician / Nurse Practitioner  $75  $30
 NOSM Learner**  $25  FREE**

Registration fees include HST 

*In-person registrations include dinner!

**NOSM U Learners attending Virtually must use our alternate form for free registration!

Register for this exclusive evening symposium by clicking HERE!

Details

Date:
October 2
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Website:
https://ec.lakeheadu.ca/cerah/nwo-pcc-booster-evening-symposium

Organizer

CERAH
Email
cerah@lakeheadu.ca

Venue

Superior Inn
555 West Arthur Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada

Lakehead University respectfully acknowledges its campuses are located on the traditional lands of Indigenous people. Lakehead Thunder Bay is located on the traditional lands of the Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. Lakehead University acknowledges the history that many nations hold in the areas around our campuses, and is committed to a relationship with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit based on the principles of mutual trust, respect, reciprocity, and collaboration in the spirit of reconciliation. As a Centre we are committed to working towards reconciliation and decolonizing our work and have committed as a staff to educating ourselves in these areas both personally and professionally.