All-In: Practicing Cultural Humility in Palliative Care
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Cultural humility is a mindset that helps team members recognize, respect and honour the different beliefs, customs and values of residents living in long-term care, guiding an approach to interprofessional collaboration.
All-In: Practicing Cultural Humility in Palliative Care explores the core tenets of cultural humility, and examines how these apply differently to each member of an interprofessional team.
Through interactive, scenario-based learning, interprofessional team members reflect on the implications of “typical” care practices on residents with culturally diverse needs. In twenty minutes, learners will explore how cultural humility transcends personal practice – it is not only about self-reflection and curiosity, but also about organizational accountability and commitment to equity.
This course is for interprofessional team members in long-term care and anyone with an interest in learning more about cultural humility in long-term care settings.
Cultural humility assists care providers by freeing them from the impossible task of knowing everything about everyone, and helping team members focus on approaching residents with humility. By taking this course, learners will develop and practice skills in cultural humility as an approach, supporting the delivery of high quality, person- and family-centered care.
This eLearning course can help advance equity, diversity and inclusion training goals of long-term care homes, and support establishing a greater sense of belonging and inclusion.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the people who contributed to the development of content for this course.
Thank you to the network of contributors whose wisdom and experience are reflected in this course. For their time and insight, we thank:
- Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Physician, Palliative Care Lead at Kensington Health
- Tyrone Bernardo, Coordinator, Special Projects and Events, City of Toronto Senior Services and Long-Term Care
- Dr. Ashley Flanagan, Health Research and Policy Manager, National Institute on Ageing (former role)
- Michelle Fleming, Senior Knowledge Broker, Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health
- Nazira Jaffer, Executive Director, Yee Hong Hospice
- Andrea Loncaric, Project Coordinator, Ontario CLRI at the RIA
- Dr. Kimberly Lopez, Assistant Professor of Recreation and Leisure, University of Waterloo
- Lucianna Mazzone, Social Worker, Owen Hill Care Community
- Nadia Potoczny, Education Coordinator, Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health
- Pauline Schneider, Interprofessional Educator, Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health
- Peace Serwaah, Program Assistant, Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health
- Natalie Spence, Regional Engagement Liaison, Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health
- Safura Syed, Dietitian & PhD candidate at the Nutrition and Aging Lab, University of Waterloo
We also acknowledge residents in long-term care, their families and support communities, as well as the direct-care providers who serve them daily. Through this course, we aim to acknowledge, to amplify, and to make lighter the work of those who are already providing culturally safe care to others.
This introductory elearning course expands on the concepts of cultural humility introduced in the Ontario CLRI’s All-In Palliative Care training.
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