Who is it for?

LEAP Paediatric is ideal for any health care professional, such as physicians, nurses, social workers and more, who provide paediatric care. It may also be of interest to palliative care professionals seeking more information on working with the paediatric population.

This course promotes teamwork, supports interprofessional collaboration, and fosters connections among healthcare providers across paediatric settings (e.g., pediatricians, pediatric nurses, child life specialists, social workers) who work together to provide paediatrics care.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of LEAP Paediatric, learners should be able to:

Identify children who could benefit from a palliative care approach and activate a palliative care approach earlier in the illness trajectory.
Define the roles of primary care clinicians, palliative care teams (paediatric and adult), hospices, and community-based services, in providing palliative care throughout the trajectory of a child’s illness.
Understand the key features of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for the paediatric population.
Describe the unique considerations of paediatric Advanced Care Planning.
Assess pain effectively for children of different ages and developmental stages.
Provide anticipatory guidance about what to expect at end-of-life.
Identify what constitutes better palliative and end-of-life for children and their families.
Understand how children understand serious illness, death, and grief.
Assess and manage common gastrointestinal, respiratory, and neurological symptoms.
Complete and effective pain assessment for children of different ages and developmental stages.

Course features

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

Choose from multiple delivery models to suit your learning preferences.

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

Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach conceptualized to a paediatric care setting.

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion

Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.

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

Choose from multiple delivery models to suit your learning preferences.

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

Gain essential skills and competencies in the palliative care approach conceptualized to a paediatric care setting.

Earn a nationally recognized LEAP certificate of completion

Receive an electronic copy of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook.

Self-paced learning: Complete 8 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work).
Workshop: Participate in 8 hours of live webinars led by LEAP facilitators where learners will work through an additional 8 modules, case studies and group discussions.

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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 8 interactive, self-learning modules at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work).
Workshop: Participate in 8 hours of in-person, face-to-face learning with LEAP facilitators where learners will work through an additional 8 modules, case studies and group discussions.

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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.

Accreditation

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 15 hours (credits are automatically calculated).

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Topics covered include:

LEAP Paediatric provides health care professionals who provide paediatrics care with the skills and competencies of the palliative care approach, including:

Discussing goals of care

Pain manegement

Respiratory symptoms

Fluids and feeding

Pain assessment

Bleeding

Neurological symptoms

Resources and locations of care

Pain treatement

Gastrointestinal symptoms

Paediatric end-of-life care

Supporting children and caregivers with illness, grief, and loss

Excellent facilitation and discussion. I will definitely recommend this course to colleagues, and I will also incorporate learning into practice and policy at my institution.

Nurse (RN)

Clinical Nurse Educator

The facilitators brought diverse expertise and were incredibly open to sharing their knowledge, enriching the learning experience in the LEAP Paediatric course.

Pharmacist

LEAP Paediatric learner

This course included a well-rounded group of professionals from many walks of experience which made for a great discussion and plentiful questions that offered many different perspectives. Great job!

Sarah M.

Paediatric Case Manager

I have become more confident in discussing death and dying with patients and their families. I am better able to explain the dying process and I often bring up palliative care much earlier to patients in their diagnosis then I did before. I also manage providing medication appropriately to patients to manage their pain and other symptoms, much more confidently than before.

Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN)

LEAP Paediatric Learner

After this course, I have increased the number of pediatric home visits I make and actively work to involve families more then I did before.

Tanja F.

Physician

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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