Are you passionate about ensuring peoples wishes align with the care they receive?
The goal for this Advance Care Planning stream is to bring together healthcare providers and community partners to learn about each other’s innovative practices and expertise. Together, we will begin to develop a national framework that will guide others as they explore partnerships and alliances.
Friday, June 15, 2018 – Morning Session – 8:30 a.m.
Healthcare Providers: How are HCP implementing Advance Care Planning into Routine Care?
This session will explore how clinicians and health organizations are engaging in and developing innovative processes for Advance Care Planning in routine practice in a variety of healthcare sectors and within interdisciplinary teams. Attendees will have a chance to review how ACP can and should be integrated and built upon throughout the patient journey, throughout health sectors and with a variety of healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how and where routine ACP fits into all healthcare sectors and within interdisciplinary teams.
- Identify key ACP processes and practices throughout the patient journey.
- Learn how to begin applying these ACP approaches to your practice.
Faculty:
- Cari Borenko Hoffmann, Regional Coordinator, Advance Care Planning, Fraser Health; Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, UBC
- Louise Hanvey, ACP and Hospice Palliative Care Consultant
Friday, June 15, 2018 – Afternoon Session – 1:30 p.m.
Community Partners: How are Community Partners Supporting and Normalizing Advance Care Planning?
This session will exhibit a diverse set of tools and interventions by community organizations. Attendees will learn how community partnerships can broaden the reach of ACP engagement and spark ACP conversations upstream. We will explore ways to further create collaboration and alliances between community and health organizations so that together we can support individuals, families and healthcare providers to have timely and informed conversations about goals of care.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the strengths and advantages of community-based ACP programs.
- Utilize key tools and interventions for facilitating ACP in community settings.
- Identify effective healthcare-community partnership strategies for spreading ACP conversations.
Faculty:
- C. Elizabeth Dougherty, Social Worker, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) with the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care at McMaster University
- Nadine Valk, Nadine Valk, Executive Director, Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program
Saturday, June 16, 2018 – Morning Session – 8:30 a.m.
Partnership Framework: What Elements Should Be Included in a National Partnership Framework?
This session will provide opportunities for healthcare providers and community partners to carry forward their learnings from the first two sessions into an applied activity. Attendees will work together to develop a national framework for developing effective partnerships between healthcare and community organizations toward normalizing ACP conversations both within and beyond the clinic.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a framework and an implementation strategy.
- Identify ACP champions/leaders and empower them to reach different stakeholders.
- Apply effective ACP tools and resources, as reviewed in sessions 1&2.
- Establish partnerships between different stakeholder groups at various jurisdictional levels.
Faculty:
- Louise Hanvey, ACP and Hospice Palliative Care Consultant
- Colleen Cash, Executive Director, Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association
- Chad Hammond, ACP in Canada Manager, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- C. Elizabeth Dougherty, Social Worker, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) with the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care at McMaster University
- Cari Borenko Hoffmann, Regional Coordinator, Advance Care Planning, Fraser Health; Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, UBC