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Palliative Care for Frontline Workers – Online

May 22 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palliative Care for Frontline Workers Online

As our population ages and health challenges evolve, the demand for skilled palliative care is more crucial than ever.

This course, tailored to the learning needs and preferences of frontline care providers, offers flexible learning to enhance skills in palliative care. Feedback from past participants highlights a significant boost in comfort and confidence in providing palliative care after completing the course.

When:

Wednesdays May 22 & 29, June 5 & 12, 2024

Content Includes:

  • Introduction to Palliative Care
  • Setting the Stage
  • Physiology of Dying
  • Pain
  • Working with Individuals & families
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Culture
  • Grief & Bereavement
  • Helping Relationships & Self Care
  • Working within a TEAM

Duration & Time:

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm on all days

Using Zoom platform

Fee:

No cost – this course is being fully subsidized by the Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health, Lakehead University and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre for health and social care providers in NWO.

Register HERE

Details

Date:
May 22
Time:
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i9ngJ6P7ZbLjLNXUQBg62C8wCVgFgyVN8u44K70D9io/edit

Venue

Zoom

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.