LEAP Program

We are pleased to offer educational opportunities for healthcare professionals providing palliative care in long-term care settings.

Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) is an interactive two-day course, offered twice yearly at Hospice House. Pallium Canada’s LEAP offers inter-professional clinicians with 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 and Advanced Care Planning, Last Days and Hours, Psychosocial and Spiritual Care, and Delirium and Dementia.

If interested in registering for an upcoming offering or for more information, please contact Jessica Carriere – jcarriere@hospicefredericton.ca