What you can learn at PACE for PSWs

With PACE for PSWs, you will:

• Understand how people commonly die in the 21st century, and develop skills for supporting their comfort.
• Build best practices for communicating and connecting with patients and families.
• Develop practical and psychosocial skills for integrating a palliative approach, providing care in last days and hours and supporting people experiencing loss and grief.
• Learn how to provide a culturally safe space and use a trauma-informed approach when working with First Nation, Metis, Inuit or urban Indigenous people, or any person with different cultural values.
• Create a self-care plan to help manage workplace stresses and reduce the risk of developing compassion fatigue.

Easily build your skills for integrating a palliative approach

• Ten, self-paced courses
• Interactive and dynamic learning activities
• Meet the Canadian and Provincial palliative care competencies for PSWs

You can try at no risk with our free course: "Providing culturally safe care with an Indigenous Lens"

Expand your caregiving by exploring Indigenous experiences and the impact of colonialism on their accessibility to health care. You'll learn what cultural safety means when providing care and develop skills for meeting the Calls to Action for health care from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Understand and apply the concept of Two-Eyed Seeing when providing care, and learn why this perspective benefits the person receiving and the person providing care.

Image credit: Brian Sinclair Mural, by Stephen Gladue 2020 @stephengladue

Earn a National Certificate in Palliative Care

Complete ten courses to receive a National Certificate in Palliative Care from the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario, and Life and Death Matters.

Providing the best care for patients, supporting the team, and practising self-care is possible through the PACE for PSWs courses. Content is aligned with provincial and national palliative care competencies.