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Palliative Care for Frontline Workers – Thunder Bay

May 23 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Palliative Care for Frontline Workers

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:

May 23 & 24, 2024

Where:

Conference Room A – Bartley Residence, Lakehead University

Duration & Time:

8:30 am – 4:30 pm on both days (15 hour certificate course)

Breakfast, lunch & nutrition breaks are provided.

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

Fee:

No cost – this course is being fully subsidized by the Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health, Lakehead University.

To register for this course, please click HERE

Details

Date:
May 23
Time:
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Website:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ygC4t4Veaa0U3lYJNXwHDGcmhKan1Ry6Umc6ge3ekz8/edit?usp=drive_web

Venue

Bartley Residece, Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada

Organizer

CERAH
Email
cerah@lakeheadu.ca

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.