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News from the Ontario CLRI for the long-term care sector.

  • Empowering Preceptors and Students in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes: The PREP LTC eLearning Course

    Training preceptors and students Preceptors are essential in shaping the next generation of healthcare professionals in Ontario. The long-term care (LTC) sector is no exception with specialized training requirements for team members working in a home. To meet these requirements, the Preceptor Resource and Education Program in Long-Term Care (PREP LTC) has created an online…

  • LTC Leaders: why send educators to the Specialized Educator Certificate in LTC?

    Educators in the 600+ Ontario long-term care homes represent a wide variety of disciplines, knowledge, skill, experiences and credentials. Often, educators lack resources in terms of time and money to devote to their own professional development due to the urgent and ongoing nature of demands on the job. This is a chance for your educators…

  • Holding space for moral healing in long-term care

    By: Kate Dupuis, Jane Kuepfer, Scott Mitchell During the COVID-19 pandemic, team members working in long-term care homes were often required to perform duties outside of their typical day-to-day responsibilities. With limited access to vendors, visitors, and even some part-time team members being restricted from entering the long-term care homes, it meant front-line team members…

  • New PREP LTC Impact Report released

    The Preceptor Resource and Education Program in Long-Term Care (PREP LTC) empowers Ontario’s long-term care (LTC) homes with support to boost the quality and quantity of clinical student placements. First launched in 2021, PREP LTC’s goals are to tackle clinical placement shortages, find solutions to remove barriers and increase capacity for clinical placements, provide a positive, high-quality…

  • Celebrating the Inaugural Person-Centred Language Award Winner: Joy Cardinal Flores

    Joy Cardinal Flores and her Approach to Person-Centred Language and Care By 2031, there are expected to be one million Canadians living with dementia. Despite the growing number of people living with dementia in Canada, mobilizing support against the stigmas associated with dementia has been challenging. The Person-Centred Language (PCL) Initiative is looking to change that.…

  • Momentum | The Ontario CLRI 2022-2023 Annual Report

    The world as we know it has permanently changed. Forever. Our 2022-23 Annual Report, Momentum opens with this sentence in a letter addressed to the sector from everyone at the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care (Ontario CLRI) and signed by the three Executives at each of our host sites; the…

  • Elevating Palliative Care in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes: The Transformative Power of the All-In Training Program

    The importance of evidence-informed, culturally appropriate palliative care in long-term care (LTC) homes cannot be overstated. Through the All-In Palliative Care Training Program, the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care (Ontario CLRI) team at Bruyere is pioneering a new approach to training interprofessional team members in recognizing palliative care myths, accommodating…

  • A Year and Legacy of the “Leading & Learning with Pride” Tool Kit

    2SLGBTQI+ inclusion has become a hot topic among LTC homes, care providers and seniors. Last spring, we shared that the City of Toronto refreshed an older version and launched the Leading & Learning with Pride Tool Kit. We wanted to catch up with Joseph Friedman Burley, staff lead and one of the co-creators of the…

  • Building Stronger Nursing Student Placements in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes

    Ontario’s long-term care homes are critical for the success of our healthcare system, and nurses play an essential role in homes’ operation and system integration. The Government of Ontario has invested significantly in ensuring that well trained, motivated nursing students are graduating from Ontario’s 40+ nursing programs each year. Students across the province in the…