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Sandra’s

Message

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Palliative Care

Webinar—

CEPD

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NSMHPCN

OTN Webinar:

January 13

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Residential

Hospice—

Orillia

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Education/

Contact Us

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Find us on

social media!

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In just over a week, 2014 NSMHPCN memberships will expire

(January 1st). There are some great events that are currently being

planned for 2015 that you won’t want to miss! Renew your member-

ship today and continue to receive a discount on all NSMHPCN confer-

ences.

There are many benefits to becoming a member or renewing your

membership:

Receive discounts on Network workshops and conferences

Stay informed on current information/updates about palliative care

Members’ websites are promoted on Network website (new site

coming soon!)

Memberships are available for individuals ($15) or corporations ($50).

*Please find our application form attached at the

end of the newsletter*

Current members—to renew your membership, fill out an application

form with a cheque payable to NSMHPCN and send it to:

169 Front St. S., Orillia, ON L3V 4S8

Alternatively, you can pay by credit card by filling out the application

and faxing it to us at (705) 325– 7328. You can also call and pay by

credit card over the phone at (705) 325-0505.

Sandra’s Message A message from the Executive Director

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Recently two significant reports about palliative care have

been released. The Auditor General has issued 10

recommendations for improving palliative care in the

province of Ontario. Health Quality Ontario released

“Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee. End-of-life health care in

Ontario: OHTAC recommendations” which includes eight recommendations.

As someone working in palliative care, I welcome the scrutiny and appreciate

the evidence-based directions provided by these reports.

There were commonalities in the discussions and recommendations of the

two reports:

More Advance Care Planning – including public and physician education

Improved access to community-based palliative care teams

More physician and nursing education about palliative care

Improving services to allow patients to die in their location of choice

More public education to normalize death and dying

Both reports are complicated and worth the investment of time to review. As

a relatively new field of medicine, there is much going right with the provision

of palliative care, and also many opportunities to learn to do this work better.

Each of us, as palliative care providers, must ask ourselves how we can use

the information and recommendations in these reports to improve the work

that we do every day.

Both reports are available online:

http://www.hqontario.ca/evidence/end-of-life

http://www.auditor.on.ca/en/reports_en/en14/308en14.pdf

For readers who want to receive the most recent reports and stories about palliative care as they are published, please “like” us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/nsmhpcn

Palliative Care Education Series—CEPD

Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) in partnership

with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Laurentian & Lakehead uni-

versities) are running a palliative care education series in 2015.

OTN Webinar: Thursday, January 22 *Deadline to Register: January 19

Topic: Ringing in the New Year: Reviewing the Top Practice Changing

Articles of 2014 in Palliative Care

Please refer to poster attached at end of newsletter for more info.

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Sandra’s Message

A message from the Executive Director

NSMHPCN OTN Webinar: January 13th

The NSMHPCN has organized Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

presentations (webinars) to be held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month

from September to June—12:00 noon to 1 p.m. from various locations

throughout our LHIN. Presentations can be viewed at your local OTN site

or can be viewed by webcast on your own computer.

January’s webinar:

Chicken Soup for “Who’s” Soul: Clinical and Ethical

Considerations of Eating and Drinking Near End-Of-Life

Presented by: Kelly Hubbard, RN, BScN, CHPCN (C)

Residential Care Manager, Hospice Simcoe

Broadcast from RVH, Rm 4141.

To log on from your own computer, click here.

Residential Hospice—Orillia

You may have heard in the news recently that Hospice Orillia has re-

leased a request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) regarding facility

sharing for a residential hospice in the community. The goal is to make

use of surplus space within an existing building that would be

appropriate to use for a residential hospice, in hopes of creating four to

six patient rooms.

A partnership like this would lead to improved use of space, and the pos-

sibility of shared staffing, which could result in a higher level of services

for both partners.

A residential hospice could help many people live a quality life while they

are dying. Currently, individuals in Orillia at end-of-life and their families

who want to spend their last days together at a hospice need to travel

outside of the city.

Agencies, groups or individuals who are interested in submitting a pro-

posal are to contact Whitney at whitney@nsmhpcn.ca to receive the re-

quest for EOI document. Proposals will be accepted until 8 a.m. on Mon-

day, January 19, 2015.

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North Simcoe Muskoka Hospice Palliative Care Network

169 Front Street South

Orillia, ON L3V 4S8

Phone: (705) 325-0505

Fax: (705) 325-7328

www.nsmhpcn.ca

To unsubscribe, please email: Rachael@nsmhpcn.ca

Fundamentals of Hospice Palliative Care Education (FHPCE) Course details and outlines are available on our website.

The NSMHPCN is currently planning all 2015 Education events. Please stay tuned for more information in the New Year.

BARRIE

*NEW Winter courseTuesday, Jan. 6-Feb. 17, 2015

Hospice Simcoe 336 Penetanguishene Rd., 3:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.

Education

The NSMHPCN is on Facebook and Twitter! We hope that you ‘Like’ our

Facebook page and join in on the conversation on all things palliative

care. To join and ‘Like’ our Facebook page, please visit

www.facebook.com/nsmhpcn. To follow us on Twitter, go to:

www.twitter.com/nsmhpcn.

NSMHPCN on social media

NETWORK MEMBERSHIP

Our Vision Quality palliative care is available across North Simcoe Muskoka to every person living with life-threatening illness.

Who We Are An alliance of health care professionals, volunteers, and consumers, who facilitate the planning, development and delivery of quality palliative care services to people in our region.

How We Do This

• Through a broad system design for palliative care • Coordination and integration of palliative care services at a system level • Monitoring and assessment of community needs • Promotion of service innovations

Who Should Become A Member? Anyone working or dealing with people with chronic and life threatening illness directly or indirectly such as:

• Organizations delivering services to seniors • Health Care Providers • Community Volunteers • Clergy • Social Workers

Why Join? • Receive discount for Network workshops and conferences • Stay informed on current information about palliative care • Members’ websites are promoted on Network website • Receive our newsletter and learn about educational opportunities

Demonstrate Your Support for Hospice Palliative Care

BECOME A MEMBER!

Membership Application Form

Criteria: To apply for membership, you must be: • Committed to the improvement of the quality of living and dying for individuals of all ages and culture in

all settings, living with a progressive life-threatening illness. • A Canadian resident • Not an employee or related to an employee of NSMHPCN

FOR MEMBERSHIP CALENDAR YEAR 2015 (JAN. 1-DEC. 31)

I hereby apply to the North Simcoe Muskoka Hospice Palliative Care Network to become a:

Volunteer Member Individual Member Corporate Member # # of employees ____

(Hospice Orillia - No charge) $15 $50

I agree to the principles and commitments as contained within the application guide and meet the criteria as set out

above.

(PLEASE PRINT & COMPLETE ALL DETAILS BELOW) Name of organization: ______________________________________________________________ Name of individual: _________________________________________________________________ Title/Discipline:________________________________________ Phone #: ____________________ Signed: _________________________________________ Date: __________________ Full Mailing address: _______________________________________________________________ Email address: ____________________________________________________________________

Please send completed form with cheque payable to NSMHPCN to: 169 Front Street South, Orillia, ON, L3V 4S8

OR: Fax application w/ credit card information to: 705-325-7328

Visa/MasterCard #:__________________________________________________ Expiry date: _______________________________ Name of cardholder:______________________________________________________

Continuing medicaL education

CEPDcontinuing education and professional development

nosm.ca/cepd

CEPD Office phone: 1-807-766-7464 | Website: nosm.ca/cepd

Palliative Care education Series

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ObJeCtiveSBy the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• discuss approach and resources available for identifying key areas of palliative care research.• Provide a critical summary of each of the articles reviewed.• examine different perspectives of these selected articles.

PrOgrAm DeSCriPtiONthe Palliative care education Series provides regular lectures and workshops which discuss common end-of-life issues. this session will provide the opportunity to review highlights within the palliative care literature over the past year.

PreSeNterDr. Kathy Simpson, mD, CFPC, studied occupational therapy at Queen’s university and then practiced for five years in thunder Bay and new Zealand. She received her Md at McMaster and completed postgraduate training in Family Medicine at the university of calgary. dr. Simpson practiced comprehensive family medicine in Wawa for five years, and then moved her family to ottawa for her Palliative care Fellowship. She has been at the thunder Bay Regional Hospital and cancer center since 2001 in the capacity of hospitalist, general practitioner of oncology, and now full-time palliative care clinician.

DeADliNe tO regiSterMonday, January 19, 2015

this program meets the accreditation criteria of the college of Family Physicians of canada and has been accredited for up to 1 mainpro-m1 credit(s) as approved by the continuing education and Professional development office at the northern ontario School of Medicine.

CYPAC-01405-Athursday, January 22, 2015 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. eSt

Ringing in the new Year: Reviewing the top Practice changing articles of 2014 in Palliative carePresented by: dr. Kathy Simpson

DiStribUteD leArNiNg

Face to Face:noSM at Lakehead university: BSc Room 2002

OtN videoconference:noSM at Laurentian university: MSe Room 322

other otn location (Please specify when registering)

regiStrAtiON if you have a noSM login, please visitwww.nosm.ca/cepdereg/ to register.

if you do not have a noSM login, please visit www.nosm.ca/cepdform/ to complete our manual registration form.

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PALLIATIVE CARE ROUNDS Presented by the North Simcoe Muskoka

Hospice Palliative Care Network

Kelly Hubbard, RN, BScN, CHPCN(C), Hospice Simcoe Residential Care Manager

Thanks,

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

1200 – 1300 hours

Broadcast from RVH, Rm 4141. Or can be accessed from your own computer at

http://webcast.otn.ca/liveevents.html or http://webcast.otn.ca/index/browse?page=1&type=3

Rm 4141, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

Chicken Soup for “Who’s” Soul: Clinical and Ethical Considerations of Eating and Drinking Near End-of-Life

OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify the psycho-social aspects of eating and not eating. 2. Describe cachexia versus starvation 3. Identify the benefits and burdens of artificial nutrition and hydration 4. Describe the ethical principles that guide treatment decisions 5. Describe the skills needed for compassionate and competent conversations with the patient and

family members

AUDIENCE Physicians & Health Care Professionals

REGISTRATION To participate in this event by videoconference, contact your local OTN Coordinator to help reserve a room and system at your site that is videoconference enabled.

OTN SITE COORDINATORS Self Registration Link:

URL: https://schedule.otn.ca/tsm/portal/nonclinical/details.do?request.requestId=37358375 For those who do not have Ncompass training please register your site with Karen Styles: stylesk@rvh.on.ca (please include your site and system numbers). OTN is pleased to provide the technological infrastructure to support interactive videoconference education events.

Please note that the content and opinions expressed are those of the presenter and not of OTN.