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This page provides education, learning opportunities, and resources for professionals working in palliative care and grief-related supports.
Social Connections in Palliative Care - A Module for Health Care Professionals
Social Connections in Palliative Care is a free educational resource for health care professionals to learn about the importance of social connections on patient health outcomes. The module explores the use of the Atlas CareMap as a tool to increase caregiving patients’ social connections.
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Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP™)
Transform your health care practice with our award-winning suite of Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP™) courses. Our palliative care courses for health care professionals provide the knowledge, skills and confidence to improve care for patients and families facing life-limiting illnesses.
2026-2027 Learning Institute
The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association Virtual Learning Institute is a cornerstone for professional learning in hospice palliative care across Canada and a signature space for collaboration, dialogue, and skill development among clinicians, educators, researchers, and community leaders.
CHPCA National Conference
The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association Conference (CHPCA Conference) is the country’s premier hospice palliative care conference.
Palliative Care Coalition of Canada (PCCC) - Blueprint for Action 2025-2030
Building on over 25 years of progress in palliative care, the PCCC has developed a new Blueprint for Action 2025-2030 to guide its work to continue to improve access to and the quality of palliative care in Canada. This document was developed to mark progress from previous Blueprints, but also to respond to the Progress Report on the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada, which challenged stakeholders in palliative care to continue to advance the goals of the Framework.
Access Blueprint for Action 2025-2030 here.
The Learning Hub
The Learning Hub is your gateway to free, evidence-informed learning modules to support your practice. The modules help you build capacity and confidence in delivering palliative care and grief support.
Tools for Practice
Our clinical team has identified protocols, advanced practices, and assessment and evaluation tools to help support your practice.
The Exchange
Find leading edge information, including summaries of new research, current issues, workplace learning, best practices and conference posters.
Pace for PSWs - Palliative Care Education Developed Specifically 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.
Healthcare Provider Resources
Grief Practice Support Program (GPSP)
The Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework
The Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework
The Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework outlines shared and discipline-specific competencies for health professionals and volunteers who care for people with life-limiting conditions and their families. It also describes competencies for those who specialize or have a practice focused in palliative care. The competencies are written to emphasize the interprofessional nature of palliative care and apply to all settings of care.
The Nova Scotia Palliative Care Competency Framework
The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework
The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework, developed by Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) in partnership with Health Canada, provides a national discipline‑specific framework for palliative care competencies.
The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework
Standards
Division of Palliative Medicine (Department of Medicine) - Enhanced Skills in Palliative Care Program
Solid training tailored to individual career goals
Enhanced Skills in Palliative Care Program for Family Physicians
The Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in partnership with the Department of Medicine’s Division of Palliative Medicine offers a full-time one-year Enhanced Skills Family Medicine Residency postgraduate training program in Palliative Care leading to a Certificate of Added Competence in Palliative Care, accredited as a category one program by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).
Framework on Palliative Care in Canada
In late 2017, the Act providing for the development of a framework on palliative care in Canada was passed by Parliament with all-party support. During the spring and summer of 2018, Health Canada consulted with provincial and territorial governments, other federal departments, and national stakeholders, as well as people living with life-limiting illness, caregivers and Canadians. The findings from that consultation, as well as the requirements outlined in the Act, provided the foundation for the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada.
Palliative care: For professionals providing care
Please visit the Government of Canada Palliative Care page for a full list of resources for professionals.
Fact Sheet: Talking with your patients about their serious illness is not easy
Talking with your patients about their serious illness is not easy
Where do I start? What do I say? Access website.
We all have had that uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what to say or when to say it. Regardless of your role, ask yourself these three questions. Download Fact Sheet.
The Caregiver’s Handbook
The Caregiver’s Handbook (2025) – 4th edition
The Caregiver’s Handbook is designed to support you every step of the way – from those first questions (Do I want to be a caregiver? Who are my partners in care?) to getting organized and managing daily responsibilities like medications, meal planning, hospital and crisis preparation, legal or financial matters – all while remembering to care for yourself, too.
Workshops and Presentations
CNS offers several educational workshops and topical presentations tailored to the special interests of caregivers.
Contact CNS for more information.
Nutrition Course
In this six-part video series, dietitian and educator Cath Morley shares simple, practical advice to help caregivers feel more confident about food and nutrition.
Hospice Palliative Care Nursing Certification (CNA)
CPCNA supports professional development and advocates for equitable access to quality palliative care for all persons in Canada.
Our organization holds membership with the Canadian Network of Nursing Specialties with the Canadian Nurses Association.
Certification in Hospice Palliative Care Nursing is one way in which nurses demonstrate expertise in their field of practice, in turn, contributing to the delivery of quality palliative care.
Visit CPCNA for more information.
Practice Tools in Palliative Care
CPCNA Education Session Resources
Canadian Medical Association Choosing Wisely
BC Centre for Palliative Care Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Canadian Advance Care Planning: National Seniors Strategies (content includes lists of provincial documents)
Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Speak Up
The Lantern Model: Download PDF here.
View the model image here which can be worked on with teams
Palliative Discovery . a new resource of nursing working at advanced level in palliative Care -they can join for freehttps://palliativediscovery.stchristophers.org.uk/
Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Canuck Place Children’s Hospice offers the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to help professionals working with ill-children and their families/caregivers. Serious Illness Conversation Guide.
International Children’s Palliative Care Network
International Children’s Palliative Care Network is committed to providing information on available resources related to the field of children’s palliative care. icpcn.org/resources/
AWC Grief Support
AWC Grief Support offers resources for professionals, parents & caregivers as well as children & teens who are navigating or supporting those who are grieving. From professional certificates to individualized counselling services. AWC Grief Support – Resources.