LEAP Program

Hospice Fredericton is pleased to offer educational opportunities for professionals providing palliative care in the long-term care setting.

LEAP – Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care is an interactive two-day course.  Offered twice yearly at Hospice House, Pallium Canada’s LEAP Long Term Care offers inter- professional clinicians competency-based palliative care education specific to the Long- Term Care setting.

Topics covered include:  being aware, taking ownership, pain management, GI symptoms, hydration & nutrition, essential conversations, respiratory symptoms, grief, decision making & advance care planning, last days and hours, psychosocial/spiritual care and delirium/dementia.

If interested in registering for an upcoming course or for more information, please contact Stephanie Golding – sgolding@hospicefredericton.ca