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Palliative care is a holistic approach that treats a person with serious illness of any age, and in any setting. It involves a range of care providers and includes the person's unpaid caregivers. If you have a serious illness, palliative care can: help improve your quality of life. reduce or relieve your symptoms.
Certification in Hospice Palliative Care Nursing is one way in which nurses demonstrate expertise in their field of practice, in turn, contributing to the delivery of quality palliative care.
Durham College’s Palliative Care certificate helps you build knowledge to support individuals with advanced or terminal illnesses, and covers bereavement care.
The Ontario Provincial Framework for Palliative Care can be used as a tool to help provide better, connected care across the province, and guide future work to ensure that all Ontarians receive the respect, dignity and care they deserve at every stage of life and across the continuum of care.
Talk to your health care provider, family, friends or other caregivers about end-of-life care options. Options may include palliative care and: do not resuscitate orders; refusal or withdrawal of treatment; refusal of food and drink; palliative sedation to ensure comfort; medical assistance in dying; Do not resuscitate orders
Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion. Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook. Delivery modes. Online. Hybrid. In-person. Self-paced learning: Complete 17 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work).
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If you or someone you know needs end-of-life care or palliative care services, you can contact the home and community care office of your First Nations community and or regional health authority, or you can have a health care professional make a referral on your behalf.
