Developing teaching approaches to support compassionate virtual care
Stella is creating materials for health professions teachers to support their ability to foster compassion and equity during virtual care teaching.
Read MoreHow do we assess the effectiveness of teaching compassionate, person-centered care in medical faculties?
Although we’re starting to understand how to teach compassion, we still don’t know how to tell if medical students and physicians have learned this and if our teaching has been effective. The goal of this grant was to consider how to make such evaluations.
Read MoreHumanizing palliative, end of life care in critical care
The goal of the fellowship is to deepen my knowledge and expertise related to palliative and end of life care and to explore its application in critical care and acute care inpatient units. Learning objectives with potential relevance to both environments would involve developing the following: a) an increasing ability to identify and treat distressing symptoms, b)…
Read MoreFacilitating self-compassion and compassionate care in nursing students
A growing concern has been identified within the literature of an increase in frequency of patients reporting a lack of compassionate care. This lack of compassionate care has turned a spotlight on nursing education programs and how they are preparing new graduates to be compassionate nursing care providers. Understanding how self-compassion, person-centred care, and compassionate nursing practice is…
Read MoreDeveloping character-based leadership in medical education
Nabil’s fellowship focused on nurturing compassionate care using character-based leadership (CBL). CBL is a leadership education approach that stresses a commitment to values and principles in the face of everyday situational pressures.
Read MoreCollaboration: Operating Room Essentials (CORE), Leading Invasive Procedural Area Education Beyond the Perioperative Suites
This Fellowship will focus on transformational leadership development while leading educational resource design/delivery through Collaboration: Operating Room Essentials (CORE), to support advanced perioperative knowledge and skill in the provision of invasive procedural care beyond the perioperative suites. During the term of the fellowship, activities will center on restructuring educational resources for immediate use within Interventional…
Read MoreImplementing an advanced care planning curriculum for pediatric nurses
Discussions on advanced care planning (ACP) early in a child’s disease process can relieve suffering and focus on quality of life (CPS, 2008). As per the National Guideline Clearinghouse (2016), children with life-limiting conditions and their carers have a central role in the decision-making process and care planning and therefore benefit from open and consistent…
Read MoreLearning compassionate care through palliative care in a rural community
See how this fellowship used palliative care practice in a rural community on Manitoulin Island to consider how patients’ voices from different cultures can enrich the planning and delivery of healthcare services.
Read MoreTeaching and learning compassion and self-compassion in nursing
Kristen’s work investigates what compassion looks like in contemporary nursing practice, a key dimension of which is considering how we can better teach compassion in healthcare education.
Read MoreIntegrating patients’ voices into health professions education
In her fellowship, Katherine led the design, implementation, and evaluation of a new, bilingual, online curriculum at the University of Ottawa. It provided clinician-educators with information and strategies on how to actively involve patients and their families in health professions education (HPE).
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