Research to Practice

Research to Practice Seminar Series

In 2012, NOHS partnered with the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at UBC Okanagan to deliver free, educational seminars to the public on a variety of topics relating to hospice palliative care. These sessions are facilitated by Canadian researchers and stakeholders and are offered 4 times per year. Since we provide an opportunity for people to join online or by teleconference, as well as in person at UBC Okanagan, the audience for these seminars is typically diverse and includes Hospice staff, university students and faculty, Health Authority staff, health care professionals, caregivers, and interested community members – sometimes from across the country.

2019-20 Webinar Series:

Policy and practice implications of MAiD for Canadian nursing
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
10:00 - 11:00 AM
NOHS Boardroom

PRESENTER: Barb Pesut, PhD RN, Canada Research Chair; Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - Everyone is welcome.
Registration is required. To attend the webinar at NOHS, email phyllis@nohs.ca or register HERE.

Past Webinars and Recordings:

2019-20

• Making connections: Making a difference - Scaling out a volunteer navigation intervention by Barb Pesut, PhD RN, Canada Research Chair; Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan and Clara Dyck, MSN RN Education and Resource Leader, North Okanagan Hospice Society
• More, better and earlier conversations: Promoting Advance Care Planning in the community and with the health care team by Elizabeth Beddard-Huber, RN, MSN, CHPCN (C) Clinical Lead Serious Illness Conversations BC Centre for Palliative Care; and Kathy Kennedy, Community Development Specialist / ACP Lead BC Centre for Palliative Care

2018-19

• How we fail vulnerable and marginalized people as they die and what to do about it by Dr. Kelli Stajduhar, Professor School of Nursing, University of Victoria
• Cannabis: Does it have a place in palliative and end-of-life care? by Lynda Balreaves, PhD, RN, Associate Professor College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
• Priorities and Challenges in rural Indigenous Palliative care: Cultural Safety Revisited by Susan Caxaj, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Development, UBC Okanagan
• Nurses' Experience with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) by Dr. Barbara Pesut. RN, Canada Research Chair, Health Ethics and Diversity

2017-18

• Exercise for Advanced Cancer Patient: Truths, Myths and Logistics by Dr. S. Nicole Culos-Reed, PhD, Professor of Health and Exercise Psychology in the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary.

2016-17

• Using Volunteer Navigators to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults Living at Home with Advanced Chronic Illness by Dr. Barbara Pesut, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Ethics and Diversity
• Giving voice to palliative care clients and their families through the use of person-centered outcomes and experience measures by Dr. Richard Sawatzky, PhD, RN
• Dying at Home: Enabling Caregivers’ Determination by Dr. Carole Robinson, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing
• Indigenous Voices: Stores of Serious Illness and Grief / Kali Leary
• The Canadian Virtual Hospice Loss and Grief and Loss Interactive Tool for Patients and Families

2014-2015

• Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide | Dr. Keith Wilson
• Navigating upstream in palliative care: Expanding the frontiers of volunteer care | Dr. Barb Pesut
• Dignity therapy: Why is it important and what role can I play in supporting it? | Dr. Susan McClement
• A relational ethical approach to end-of-life delirium | Dr. David Wright

2013-2014

• Spiritual care within palliative care: What does the evidence tell us? | Dr. Shane Sinclair
• Managing fatigue at end of life | Dr. Karin Olsen
• Helping family caregivers of people at the end of life: What we have learned from research | Dr. Kelli Stajduhar

2012-2013

• The TCare Project | Dr. Barb Pesut
• The relationship between hope and advance care planning | Dr. Carole Robinson
• Completing the Circle: End of life care with Aboriginal families | Dr. Carrie Bourassa
• The changes toolkit: Helping palliative care patients and their family caregivers deal with transitions | Dr. Wendy Duggleby