Taking Ownership: Online Module

Taking Ownership provides an introductory overview of the palliative care approach and how health care professionals from different disciplines can make primary-level palliative care a part of their daily work. This free module will give you a sense of the rich content and engaging nature of Pallium’s Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP™) courseware.

If you are interested in furthering your learning about the palliative care approach to better care for patients with life-limiting illnesses, please visit Our Courses to learn more about Pallium Canada’s interprofessional and accredited LEAP™ courseware.

Learning Objectives:

By the time you complete this module, you should be able to:

• Define “palliative care approach” and understand what “palliative care” refers to.
• Identify patients who could benefit from a palliative care approach earlier in the illness.
• Activate a palliative care approach earlier in the illness trajectory.
• Expand your role in providing a palliative care approach in your setting.

Topics Include:

• “Palliative”: overcoming the stigma
• Illness trajectories
• Identifying patients earlier
• The palliative care approach
• The language we use
• Palliative Performance Scale (PPS)
• Gold Standards Framework

Access the Taking Ownership module by completing the form below. This module will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete.