Who is it for?

LEAP Long-Term Care is ideal for any health care professionals, such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, as well as personal support workers (PSWs) or care aides working in long-term care and nursing homes.

This course promotes teamwork, supports interprofessional collaboration, and fosters connections among health care providers across a variety of settings.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of LEAP Long-Term Care, learners should be able to:

Recognize the role of all care providers in long-term care setting in providing a palliative care approach.
Identify residents who could benefit from a palliative care approach earlier in the illness trajectory.
Promote and undertake Advance Care Planning discussions.
Assess and manage pain; delirium; dementia; gastrointestinal symptoms, hydration, and nutrition; and respiratory symptoms.
Develop plans to address spiritual or psychosocial needs.
Initiate essential discussions related to palliative and end-of-life care in daily work.
Identify and implement support strategies in grief and bereavement situations.
Prepare residents and families for last days and hours.

Course features

Collaborate and learn from interprofessional healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and more.

Learn from course materials that were developed and reviewed by Canadian experts in palliative care.

Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach tailored to a long-term care setting.

Choose from multiple delivery models to suit your learning preferences

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion

Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.

Collaborate and learn from interprofessional healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and more.

Learn from course materials that were developed and reviewed by Canadian experts in palliative care.

Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach tailored to a long-term care setting.

Choose from multiple delivery models to suit your learning preferences

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion

Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.

Delivery modes

Self-paced learning: Complete 17 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work) in advance of the facilitated workshop.
Workshop: Participate in 6 hours of live webinars led by LEAP facilitators where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from modules.

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Pricing for online delivery:

$425 for physicians
$295 for non-physicians
$175 for personal care aides

Non-physicians refers to nurses, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, etc.

Personal care aides refers to personal support workers, health care aides, health care assistants, care aides, etc.

Self-paced learning: Complete 17 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work) in advance of the facilitated workshop.
Workshop: Participate in 6 hours of in-person, face-to-face learning with LEAP facilitators where learners will work through cases and discuss learnings from modules.

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Pricing for hybrid delivery:

$365 for physicians
$235 for non-physicians
$115 for personal care aides

Non-physicians refers to nurses, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, etc.

Personal care aides refers to personal support workers, health care aides, health care assistants, care aides, etc.

Workshop: Participate in two days of in-person learning (14 hours total) led by LEAP facilitators, featuring group discussions and case studies for a hands-on experience.

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Pricing for in-person delivery:

$295 for physicians
$195 for non-physicians
$80 for personal care aides

Non-physicians refers to nurses, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, students, residents, etc.

Personal care aides refers to personal support workers, health care aides, health care assistants, care aides, etc.

Accreditation

This 2 credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 26.5 Mainpro+ credits.

Up to

26.5

Mainpro+ credits

Course topics

LEAP Long-Term Care equips health care professionals working in long-term care and nursing homes with the essential competencies to provide a palliative care approach, covering topics such as:

Being aware

Pain

Delirium

Grief

Palliative sedation

Principles of palliative care

Gastrointestinal symptoms, hydration and nutrition

Respiratory symptoms

Last days and hours

Resources and quality improvement

Decision-making

Advance Care Planning

Suffering, spiritual care, and maintaining hope

Request to hasten death

Organizational readiness

Before taking LEAP Long-Term Care, we had no palliative group in our facility. Now, we started a new interdisciplinary palliative group with a focus to increase awareness regarding palliative care and end-of-life interventions.

Salimeh A.

Registered Nurse

Since completing LEAP Long-Term Care, I am more sensitive to the physical, emotional and medical changes of my residents and inform the team about someone who may be declining based on my observation.

Joseph A.

Personal Support Worker

As a Community Health Worker, I applied the training and tools from LEAP Long-Term Care during home visits with community members facing terminal illnesses. They have shared that the information I provided made them feel more empowered and supported.

Lori A.

Community Health Worker

LEAP Long-Term Care was incredibly informative. As a personal support worker, it offered me insights into various roles within palliative and end-of-life care. This course also provided me with a deeper understanding of my own personal grief and brought me a sense of peace.

Personal Support Worker

LEAP Long-Term Care learner

In my role as a Social Worker in long-term care I have had many opportunities to practise my use of more accurate language around end-of-life care. My comprehension and appreciation for it’s use has grown as well. After my Pallium training, I regularly took part in revisions in the policies of our long-term care home. During this time, I was able to highlight to our interdisciplinary teams the importance and impact of terminology used by our staff members as well as the general approach to palliative support.

Social Worker

LEAP Long-Term Care learner

After the LEAP training, I was aware of the principles of palliative and end of life care. I responded to the individual residents’ right to die in the facility with dignity and optimal comfort. I treat the individual as a whole person with physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. I listened to their concerns and the resident, and the family are entitled to support and respect at all times.

Nurse

LEAP Long-Term Care learner

Key LEAP features

Pallium’s award-winning suite of LEAP courseware transforms health care practice across all settings of care, through practical, interprofessional and evidence-based palliative care training.

Canada’s leading suite of palliative care courses.

Created and peer-reviewed by Canadian experts.

Earn nationally recognized certification.

Collaborate with interprofessional health care professionals.

Backed by evidence and best practices.

Over 600+ courses are held every year.

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