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Palliative Care for Frontline Workers in Long-Term Care Settings

March 7 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Palliative Care for Frontline Workers in Long-Term Care Settings

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:

March 7 & 8, 2024

Where:

Pioneer Ridge Long-Term Care Home, Plaza 3 Auditorium

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:

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

Lunch & nutrition breaks are provided.

Location:

Pioneer Ridge Long-Term Care Home; Plaza 3 Auditorium

Fee:

No cost – this course is being fully subsidized by CERAH and the North West Regional Palliative Care Program.

Registration is now closed – if you are interested in attending a future course, please contact us at 807-343-8010 ext. 7271 or email us at cerah@lakeheadu.ca

 

Details

Date:
March 7
Time:
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Event Category:
Website:
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Organizer

CERAH
Email
cerah@lakeheadu.ca

Venue

Pioneer Ridge Long-Term Care
750 Tungsten Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B6R1 Canada + Google Map

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.