Canadian Serious Illness Conversations

This program equips health care professionals with the skills to have compassionate and effective conversations with patients, families, and caregivers facing serious illness. By focusing on person-centered values, goals, and wishes, these conversations help reduce confusion and ensure that care decisions align with what matters most to the individual. The training includes a self-learning module and a facilitated session, guiding professionals in the use of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide developed by Ariadne Labs and Pallium Canada.

Course Overview

  • Designed to provide health care professionals with the tools and knowledge needed to have compassionate and effective conversations with patients, families, and caregivers who are dealing with a serious illness
  • Effective conversations between clinicians and individuals about values, goals and wishes in regards to health care treatment ease confusion and fear while ensuring decisions reflect what is most important to the individual
  • Research shows that timely, person-centered serious illness conversations and care planning improve the care experience for both the clinician and the individual and their family/caregivers
  • Provides a comprehensive understanding for healthcare professionals of the use and application of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide, developed by Ariadne Labs of Harvard Medical School and hosted through Pallium Canada
  • Contains 2 parts: an online self-learning module (approximately 1.5-2 hours) and a 2 hour facilitated session led by certified facilitators to practice and refine the use of the guide through role-playing exercises

Intended Audience

  • Appropriate for any health care professional (MD, NP, SW, RN/RPN) who wants to use the guide to improve their ability to engage in meaningful and compassionate conversations

Course Details

Please note our current course is now full. Please use the form below to be added to the waiting list.




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