This course provides an opportunity for students to develop insights into their own feelings about culture, values, beliefs and attitudes regarding loss, grief, healing and end of life issues.

The Insights course is designed to be an interactive and transforming process that uses didactic presentation, role-playing, group work, videos, personal insight exercises, reflective journaling, and scenario implementation to address personal losses, grief and healing.

This course will provide insights for internationally educated professionals, in order for them to cope personally and professionally with Canadian realities. In this course students will:

• Explore personal history with death and dying.
• Recognize personal fears regarding death and dying.
• Identify a significant personal loss.
• Explore issues surrounding loss to increase self awareness.
• Appreciate the value of how cultural values affect and interact with the grieving process.
• Explore personal attitudes toward spirituality.
• Identify different influences that religious and cultural backgrounds bring to terminal illness and the dying process.
• Visit a cemetery and a funeral home.
• Identify personal values, beliefs and attitudes regarding death.
• Discuss ethical issues that arise in clinical practice at the end of life.
• Learn the history and philosophy of palliative care in Canada.
• Define Palliative Care.
• Gain a basic understanding of the norms and model of palliative care in Canada .
• Visit palliative care unit
• Watch the video “Letting Go”.
• Witness the day to day activities of caring for a palliative care patient.

To register for an Information Session or for Program Information – Contact: Sharon Staples – (613)727-4723 ext. 5841 or email: staples@algonquincollege.com

<< Back to Education