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Alberta Palliative Care Competencies & Framework

A robust and skilled health care workforce is essential to the future sustainability of palliative care delivery. In the fall of 2018, the Palliative Institute, under the direction of the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Provincial Palliative and End-of-Life Innovations Steering Committee, brought palliative care experts together and drafted a protocol to begin the process of developing Alberta interdisciplinary palliative care competencies.

Alberta Palliative Care Competency Framework – Technical Report

The following 14 discipline-specific competency frameworks provide a reference and opportunity for front line clinical staff and volunteers to engage in self-assessment of knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes toward palliative care and when caring for a person with a life-limiting illness. These documents can be used to inform and guide academic curricula, professional development, professional regulatory bodies, continuing education programs and employers.

For more information on our current competencies and education activities, visit our research and grants page.

Covenant Health would like to acknowledge that what we refer to as Alberta is the traditional ancestral territory of a diversity of Indigenous peoples and home to Treaty 6, 7, and 8. We honor the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika, the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Métis Homeland. We recognize and give thanks to the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations, all who continue to grace these lands, and all future generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.

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