The Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care- A Day for Educators
Announcing a BCCCA CONFERENCE 2014 PRE-CONFERENCE workshop: The Essentials in Hospice Palliative Care- A Day for Educators! Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm Location: Terminal City Club, 837 West Hastings Street Instructor: Kath Murray, HPC nurse, educator and author BCCCA Conference Flyer * Connect with current developments and key concepts in Hospice […]
Little Stars: A film about Children’s Palliative Care
We were thrilled to have been contacted by our friend Mike Hill, of Moonshine Movies, recently to let us know about his newest project – Little Stars. In the one-hour Little Stars film they have captured surprisingly life-affirming stories of children around the world (8 countries to date in the USA, South Africa, India, Australia, […]
Coming out of hiding!
The last two and a half months I have been retreating… time with siblings from Denmark, Australia and Vancouver, time on the water, time in the water, and a lot of time writing! The new text, “Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers” is just about to go to the press. We are […]
Celebrating the Hearts and Hands of Health Care Workers
October is the month for several provinces to honour the health care workers across Canada. I like to quote Shakespeare who said that “a rose by any other name still smells as sweet.” and a health care worker, a personal support worker, a health care assistant, by any other name is a fabulous and important […]