Learning Objectives
The CHPCA Virtual Learning Institute provides healthcare professionals, educators, researchers, administrators, volunteers, and other interdisciplinary care providers across Canada with practical, evidence-informed education that supports high-quality hospice palliative care.
- Strengthen knowledge of hospice palliative care principles and practices across care settings, populations, and stages of illness to support high-quality, person-centred care.
- Enhance skills in communication, advance care planning, and shared decision-making to support meaningful conversations with patients, families, and caregivers.
- Explore emerging trends, research, and innovative models of care that improve access, quality, and equity in hospice palliative care across Canada.
- Build capacity to provide equitable, culturally safer, and person-centred hospice palliative care that responds to the diverse needs, experiences, and circumstances of individuals, families, and communities, including children, older adults, Indigenous Peoples, rural and remote communities, and underserved groups.
- Develop leadership, advocacy, and system improvement competencies to advance hospice palliative care within organizations, communities, and health systems.
- Promote approaches that support caregiver well-being, grief, bereavement, and effective interdisciplinary collaboration throughout the illness, dying, and grieving journey.
The CHPCA Virtual Learning Institute provides healthcare professionals, educators, researchers, administrators, volunteers, and other interdisciplinary care providers across Canada with practical, evidence-informed education that supports high-quality hospice palliative care. Through access to current knowledge, best practices, and tools that can be applied in a variety of care settings, participants strengthen their ability to deliver compassionate, person-centred care to individuals, families, and caregivers.
Through interactive sessions led by experts from across Canada, participants will engage in discussion, knowledge exchange, and critical reflection on current issues, emerging evidence, and promising practices in hospice palliative care.
The Learning Institute supports participants in applying new knowledge, skills, and approaches to improve care for people living with serious illness, as well as their families and caregivers, across a variety of care settings.
