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 focuses on the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach, with 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.
Delivery Modes
LEAP Long-Term Care can be delivered online or in-person.
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
- Interprofessional approach.
- Built by Canadian palliative care experts.
- Learners receive a LEAP certificate of completion and an electronic copy of the best-selling resource, the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.
- Online
- 17 interactive, self-learning online modules completed at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work).
- 6 hours of online webinars led by LEAP facilitators where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from online modules. Personal support workers/care aides have specific case studies contextualized to their role.
- In-person
- Two days, 13 hours in total.
- Face-to-face learning with group discussion and case studies.
Accreditation
Online
This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 27.5 Mainpro+ credits.
In-person
This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 26.5 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
Topics Covered Include
- Taking Ownership
- Advance Care Planning
- Goals of Care and Decision-Making
- Pain Assessment and Management
- Delirium Assessment and Management
- Depression, Anxiety, and Grief
- Dementia
- Dyspnea
- Hydration and Nutrition
- Gastrointestinal Symptoms
- Palliative Sedation
- Request to Hasten Death
- Suffering, Spiritual Care, and Maintaining Hope
- Last Days and Hours
- Organizational Readiness