Two-day, award-winning palliative care course for health care professionals working in long-term care and nursing homes.

LEAP Long-Term Care is an interprofessional course that provides health care professionals with an in-depth learning experience on essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach with course modules and case studies contextualized to the long-term care setting. LEAP Long-Term Care is taught by local experts who are experienced palliative care clinicians and educators.

Who is it for?

LEAP Long-Term Care is ideal for any health care professional (e.g. physician, nurse, pharmacist, social worker, etc.) as well as personal support workers (PSWs) or care aides working in long-term care and nursing homes.

LEAP Long-Term Care promotes teamwork and collaboration among different health care professionals who work in a variety of settings.

Course Features

• Two days, 13 hours in total
• Face-to-face learning with group discussion and case studies
• Interprofessional approach
• Built by Canadian palliative care experts
• Course materials include a downloadable manual and the best-selling resource, the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook

Accreditation

This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 26 Mainpro+ credits.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of LEAP Long-Term Care, learners should be able to:

• Describe the importance of self-awareness when providing palliative and end-of-life care

• Identify patients who could benefit from a palliative care approach earlier in the illness trajectory
• Promote and undertake Advance Care Planning discussions
• Assess and manage pain; delirium; dementia; gastrointestinal symptoms, hydration, and nutrition; and respiratory symptoms
• Develop plans to address spiritual or psychosocial needs
• Initiate essential discussions related to palliative and end-of-life care in daily work
• Identify and implement support strategies in grief and bereavement situations
• Prepare patients and families for last days and hours
• Recognize the role of all care providers in long-term care in providing a palliative care approach

Course Modules

• Being Aware
• Taking Ownership
• Decision-making and Advance Care Planning
• Pain Management
• Delirium and Dementia
• Essential Conversations
• Psychosocial and Spiritual Care
• Gastrointestinal Symptoms, Hydration, and Nutrition
• Last Days and Hours
• Grief
• Organizational Readiness