Competency is the ability to perform tasks effectively, integrating skills, knowledge, and attitudes in real-world situations. The eiCOMPASS Project supports frontline care providers in adopting the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework. By supporting the framework with emotional intelligence tools, the project enhances the delivery of emotionally intuitive, competency-based palliative care. Download the Project Backgrounder
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in Palliative Care
Patient-centered, compassionate care begins with understanding the emotional needs of patients and families. The eiCOMPASS Project offers tools and resources to help care providers integrate emotional intelligence skills into their daily practice, improving the quality of palliative care delivery.
Be Prepared
Conversation Guides
Offer essential information on palliative care emergencies, a conversation checklist, and easy-to-use tools to support and empower patients and caregivers at home.
Emotional Intelligence
Practice Aids
To develop mindfulness, communication, empathy, stress tolerance, relationship building, and shared decision-making for improved patient care.
EI and Palliative Care
Knowledge Seminars
Offers 5 webinars to strengthen home care providers’ emotional resilience, communication skills, and compassionate care delivery.
Setting the Standard for Palliative Care
The Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework establishes a minimum national standard for palliative care in Canada. It provides a comprehensive outline of core competencies for offering exceptional palliative care. For home-based palliative care providers, the Competency Framework provides a roadmap for ensuring holistic, individualized, and culturally sensitive care.
Expert Perspectives on the Framework
Recognized leaders in the field of paliative care in Canada are championing the Competency Framework as a tool for planning and excuting team-based care, educating and preparing new providers, enhancing equitable access to care, ensuring patient-centred compassionate care and setting a benchmark standard for pallitive care in Canada.
Read about palliative care experts’ views on the value and use of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework.
Building Competencies in Palliative Care:
The SPRINT Implementation Collaborative
Working with 14 home care organizations from across the country, the CHCA facilitated the implementation of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework, EI Courses, and BePrepared Conversation Guides. Through the 9-month CHCA SPRINT Implementation Collaborative (September 2023 – June 2024), teams achieved transformative outcomes by:
- Identifying learning gaps and prioritizing palliative care domains: Setting clear goals and addressing competency gaps through self-assessments.
- Enhancing Skills, Knowledge, and Attitudes:
– Incorporating expert-recommended training and share learnings.
– Developing EI skills through self-directed online courses and EI Essentials Toolkit.
– Improving communication with the BePrepared Conversation Guides. - Implementing and refining change ideas through PDSA Cycles
- Overcoming Barriers with the COM-B Model for sustainable behaviour change.
This project has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada.
The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
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