This month events like National Nursing Week (May 11-17). Indigenous Nurses Day (May 14), Personal Support Worker Day (May 19), Physiotherapy Month, Physiotherapy Assistant Day (May 8), and Doctors Day (May 1) provide us a special opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to Ontario's physicians, nurses, PSWs, and numerous allied health professionals. Thank you to every single health provider who is working tirelessly to provide high-quality, interprofessional care for older adults with frailty during these unprecedented times.

Training  and Tools for Teams Redeployed to Long Term Care  

1. COVID-19 Long Term Care Orientation for Redeployed Healthcare Workers: Webinar 3 (May 26, 2020) - This is the third in a series of webinars for healthcare workers being redeployed to Long Term Care homes (LTCH) to support the COVID-19 pandemic action plan. Speakers will introduce healthcare workers to some strategies for understanding and supporting residents who wander. The speakers will be psychogeriatric resource consultants Tara Resnick, BA, RSSWG and Hazel Sebastian, MA, MSW, RSW. *RGP Training* 

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Register for 4:00pm ET Session

2. COVID-19 Long Term Care Orientation for Redeployed Healthcare Workers: Webinar 2 (HTML) - This is the second in a series of webinars for healthcare workers being redeployed to Long Term Care homes (LTCH) to support the COVID-19 pandemic action plan. Speakers will introduce healthcare workers to effective communication ad interaction strategies to support residents living with Dementia. The speakers will be psychogeriatric resource consultants Mario Tsokas, RSW, BSW and Tara Resnick, BA, RSSWG. *RGP Recorded Training* 

Upcoming Webinars

3. Virtual Cognitive Assessment Using OTN (May 22 1:30pm ET)- OTN's virtual care solution has recently been adapted by many healthcare professionals to assess and care for their patients. In this upcoming webinar, Morris Freedman, MD, FRCPC, FAAN, will demonstrate how to use the built-in functions in OTN to carry out a detailed cognitive assessment virtually.

Past Webinar Recordings

4.  Utilizing Advance Care Planning & Serious Illness Tools During COVID-19 and Throughout the Patient Journey (May 13 6-7pm ET) - During this global pandemic, healthcare professionals and organizations around the world have further recognized the need to engage in proactive (before a health crisis) Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness conversations with at-risk patients. Join this conversation to learn how to identify at-risk patients in the context of COVID-19, prepare yourself and your patients, tools to support conversations, and how to integrate outcomes of conversations into "in the moment" of care. Hosted by Pallium Canada.

THE RESOURCES IN OUR COVID-19 UPDATES ARE ALSO POSTED ON OUR COVID-19 RESOURCES PAGE ON OUR WEBSITE.