Expert Exchange Partner Webinar Series
Upcoming Session:
- Rheumatology – TBD
Watch past Sessions:
- Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (CNSF) & CSPM (Apr 2/25)
- An Approach to Assessing Existential Distress for Palliative Care (May 15/24)
- Quality of Life Matters: Palliative Care Strategies for Individuals with Pulmonary Hypertension (Feb 21/24)
- Death, Dying & Dignity in the Emergency Department (Dec 13/23)
- Breathing Easy: Strategies for Integrating Palliative Care for COPD (Nov 7/23)
- Recognizing dying in patients with DNR: Hosted by the CSPCP (Feb 8/23)
After attending an Expert Exchange Webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify and discuss current and emerging palliative care issues from a physician’s perspective.
- Explore the role of physicians who care for patients with life-limiting illnesses, in implementing innovative approaches in response to stated issues.
- Identify key resources for future reference and continued learning.
Are you interested in partnering on a future Expert Exchange Partner webinar? Click here for more information or email Leah Salvage, Executive Director.
The Essential Value of Palliative Care Skills and Attitudes for All Clinicians
Palliative Care’s Best Kept Secret
Are you a clinician looking to enhance your practice, improve patient outcomes, and safeguard your well-being? The Canadian Society of Palliative Medicine (CSPM) believes that palliative care has specific competencies that are essential for all clinicians.
Embracing these principles improves patient outcomes and satisfaction, enhances your own well-being and resilience, fosters stronger team collaboration and efficiency, reduces costs while maintaining ethical, patient-centered care, and restores trust in the healthcare system.
These palliative care competencies include:
- Communication is essential in care of those affected by life-limiting illness. The person, their designated family or caregivers, and team may experience uncertainty and strong emotions. Effective communication helps to establish therapeutic relationships, ensures that people, and families and caregivers understand and participate in decision-making, enables interdisciplinary teamwork, and facilitates smooth transitions between care settings. Communication may be verbal or written, and may include the use of technology.
- Optimizing comfort and quality of life as defined by the person and their designated family or caregivers by addressing their holistic needs. This is an ongoing, dynamic, and proactive process, aimed at relieving and preventing suffering. The process includes effective symptom management in alignment with the person’s and their designated family or caregivers’ goals of care.
- Care planning and collaboration enables integrated, coordinated, person-centred care that optimizes comfort and quality of life. Collaboration involves the person and their designated family or caregivers, interdisciplinary team, and often multiple agencies or sectors. Care planning includes assessing current needs, planning for future illness deterioration, and possible transitions between care settings.
- Self-care is paramount for healthcare providers. It encompasses a spectrum of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, including self-awareness and reflection, maintaining professional boundaries, and practising holistic wellness strategies for the individual provider and the team.
Click here to learn more about the twelve domains of palliative care competency that make up the The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework developed by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer & Health Canada.