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Smaller TextContinuing Education - LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End of Life Care)
Regional Weekend Course
The LEAP course provides an opportunity for active learning about current best-practice in caring for patients with life-threatening and life-limiting illness, with a special focus on family practice and community settings.
The course emphasizes reflection and learning about palliative care in a collegial, retreat-based format.
It has been designed with input from, and for, rural health professionals (i.e. physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, RN case managers and hospitalists, pharmacists, social workers and psychospiritual advisors). It is aimed at rural health professionals who are committed to providing quality care, especially pain and symptom management, in the context of collaborative, community and clinic-based settings.
McMaster has their own trained facilitators who will come to you for training. The LEAP course is typically held over a weekend, but there is room for flexibility with the schedule.
Topics Covered:
- Module 1: Creating Context — Review of objectives — Sharing our stories — Self-awareness — Defining palliative care
- Module 2: Gastro-Intestinal Problems obstruction
- Module 3: Palliative Pain Management — Principles of Palliative Pain Management
- Module 4: Respiratory Problems
- Module 5: Communication
- Module 6: Depression, Anxiety and Suffering
- Module 7: Grief and Bereavement — Review of objectives — Theory burst
- Module 8: Delirium — Review of objectives — Theory burst — Case discussions
- Module 9: Palliative Sedation
- Module 10: Last Days and Hours
- Module 11: Working As A Team
This course has been accredited for 15 MAINPRO–C credits toward Maintenance of Certification for CFPC Certificants.
If you would like to provide a Pallium/Leap course in your area, please contact:
Clareen Akshinthala
Administrative Coordinator
McMaster University
Division of Palliative Care, Dept of Family Medicine
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood RoadSouth
Hamilton, Ontario L8P 0A1
Phone:
(905)-525-9140 ext. 20494
Email: akshint@mcmaster.ca
