Aim, Align, Achieve Quality Palliative Care
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Enrollment is open! Ontario long-term care homes can now register for the Aim, Align, Achieve Quality Palliative Care training program.
This is an introductory program on quality improvement and change management for the Ontario long-term care setting. An interactive program that focuses on implementation of a palliative approach to care, this class is for quality improvement and palliative care committees; physicians; quality improvement coordinators; best practice advocates; and everyone who wants to work on a person-centered approach to care that honors the humanity of residents, team members and families.
- 4-hour virtual training through Zoom
- Training is offered in English
- Free
- Wage support available for participating learners, including physicians upon request
- A laptop/computer/tablet connected to Wifi, audio and webcam for each team member (team members cannot attend together using one screen)
- Lesson 1: What is Quality and What is Quality Improvement
- Lesson 2: What is an Improvement Project?
- Lesson 3: Define the Objective/Aim
- Lesson 4: Analyze the Situation – Helpful Tools
- Lesson 5: Test and Trial Improvement Changes
- Lesson 6: Adapting, Sustaining and Expanding Change
- Recognize and apply basic quality improvement, change management and project management tools to create structured, interprofessional, improvement projects
- Understand how this portfolio of tools is used to analyze and improve palliative care in the Ontario Long-Term Care setting
- Articulate current palliative care improvement concerns in their own setting and identify potential next steps in an organized approach
The content of the course has been revised to better reflect current concerns for improvement around palliative care in the LTC setting in Ontario. Quality improvement is concerned with identifying recurring risk factors that impact the quality of care and this workshop focuses on common concerns such as diversity of language and culture in the Ontario LTC community and effective delivery of care in a dynamic staffing situation.
For questions, contact a member of the Ontario CLRI at Bruyère Health team at ceolfund@bruyere.org or 613-562-6262, Ext. 1985.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Ontario CLRI team and the following team members who contributed to designing thiWe would like to thank the Ontario CLRI team and the following team members who contributed to designing this training program:
- Lesley Hirst RN, BScN (Hons), MNNP, MSc, Hirst Health Care Consulting
- Benoit Robert, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer Perley Health
- Sandy Shamon, MD, University of Toronto, Department of Family & Community Medicine
- Tara Walton Team Lead, Clinician Engagement, Ontario Palliative Care Network
This program is supported by the Government of Ontario through the Communication at End of Life Education Fund and the Ontario Palliative Care Network and is produced by Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-term Care (CLRI) hosted at Bruyère Health. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Province.
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