Professional Learning Networks
Professional Learning Networks
Our Professional Learning Networks bring community professionals working in the North Okanagan together to connect and learn about a variety of topics relating to end-of-life.
On a regular basis, we offer live streamed webinars on-line. We are pleased to present upcoming webinars by the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, UBC Okanagan and the Hospice Foundation of America.
Please note that "Continuing Education" credits are available for North Okanagan Hospice Society members, staff and volunteers only.
Upcoming Sessions:
The Development and Clinical Use of the Coping Assessment for Bereavement and Loss Experiences (CABLE) Assessment Tool
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
9:00 - 10:30 AM (PST)
This presentation is hosted by North Okanagan Hospice Society and presented by the Hospice Foundation of America.
Abstract: The Coping Assessment for Bereavement and Loss Experiences (CABLE) is an instrument designed to assess potentially constructive strategies for coping with grief. This webinar will focus on the initial development and validation of the CABLE, as well as practical strategies for using the CABLE in clinical settings with individuals who have lost a loved one.
Presenter: Elizabeth Crunk-Sikhuashvili, PhD, NCC, LGPC, is a mental health counselor and an Assistant Professor of Counseling at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She specializes in treating diverse issues in grief and bereavement, including complicated grief, anticipatory grief, non-death loss, and life transitions.
This is a free webinar and everyone is welcome. To register, click HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/th...
*Please note that "Continuing Education" credits are available for North Okanagan Hospice Society members, staff and volunteers only.
Enduring Qualities of Hospice Excellence
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
9:00 - 10:30 AM (PST)
This presentation is hosted by North Okanagan Hospice Society and presented by the Hospice Foundation of America.
Abstract: Hospice professionals are drawn to this person-centered care for individual and sometimes very personal reasons. Yet, meeting the needs of patients and families with professional excellence, while sustaining one’s own sense of purpose, can be a challenge—due as much to external factors as to what each team member brings to their job. Join Dr. Joy Berger to explore answers to these powerful and timely questions: What brought you to this end-of-life care work? What experiences keep you in this work? How do you best negotiate the compliance and regulatory demands facing the hospice profession while staying true to your own mission? To ensure enduring qualities of hospice excellence in the future, what can you be preparing to do now to grow and give for the work ahead?
Presenter: Joy Berger, DMA, FT, BCC, MT-BC, is Founder/CEO of Composing Life Out of Loss, equipping individuals and end-of-life care organizations nation-wide with empathic, 24/7 education resources for end-of-life care professionals, families, and the communities they serve.
This is a free webinar and everyone is welcome. To register, click HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/th...
*Please note that "Continuing Education" credits are available for North Okanagan Hospice Society members, staff and volunteers only.
RECENT LEARNING SESSIONS AT NOHS
2022-23
- Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for patients from diverse communities
- Living with Grief: Trauma and Loss
2021-22
- Supporting Teens and Young Adults after a Difficult Death
- Developing the role of the volunteer to support caregivers of children with medical complexity - A Delphi Study
- Improving end of life care: Timely identification of patients who would benefit from a palliative approach
- Ethics in Action: Dilemmas at the End of Life
- Spiritual Needs of the Dying
- Utilizing the Pandemic Grief Scale: Latest Research and Clinical Implications
- Moral Distress in Healthcare in the Wake of COVID-19
- Spirituality as a Foundation for Advance Care Planning
- COVID-19 Losses and Gains of Teenagers
2020-21
- The Caregiver Experience of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
- 12 Core Strategies for Treating Traumatic Bereavement
- Relational practice and pandemic restrictions: A qualitative study of palliative care nursing
- The Physical Nature of Grief
- Extraordinary Experiences at the End of Life - Current Research and Clinical Applications
- The Evolving Role of the Trained Death Doula in End-of-Life Care