Supporting Advance Care Planning for Patients through Oncology Professional Education Angela Bedard, MSc Elizabeth Beddard-Huber, MSN

Outline

• Advance Care Planning - what it means to me

• Advance Care Planning - education

• THINK about what’s right for you

• LEARN about the medical treatments/procedures being offered at end of life

• CHOOSE your Substitute Decision Maker

• TALK about your wishes

• RECORD your wishes

• REVIEW your plan regularly

BC Cancer Agency

• Provides screening, diagnosis and care

• Sets treatment

standards, and conducts research

Planning our approach to meet patient needs and staff education

Highest Need Personal support

Intermediate Need Access to Resources

Lowest Need

Access to Resources

Patient Needs Staff Education

Basic Level

General Agency Communications Email, Posters, Newsletters

Intermediate Level

Online and In Person Training 30 minutes

Expert Level

Workshops - 2 hours+ EPEC-O and Conversations Matter

Introduction to ACP

30 Minute Tutorial

• Benefits

• Legal Documents

• Healthcare provider’s role

• BC Cancer Agency policy

Engaging Content

• Scenarios

• Videos

• Knowledge checks

• “Inter-activities”

Supplementary Materials:

• Resources for Patients and Staff

Demo

www.learninghub.phsa.ca

Course Title: Introduction to Advance Care Planning

Contributions from…

Who has taken course?

Departments

Results

Lessons Learned

• Multimedia education – good introduction

• Some staff want more in-depth

• Patients need to be approached in different ways

Contact Info

angela.bedard@bccancer.bc.ca BC Cancer Agency

604-877-6000 ext. 673270