To ensure all health care providers (HCPs) are competent in providing patients and their families the best care possible, it is important to cultivate compassionate attitudes while equipping HCPs with standardized core knowledge and technical skills related to palliative care.
Palliative care is enhanced when delivered by collaborative interprofessional care teams, whose members possess the standardized competency proficiency needed to deliver consistent, high-quality care. HCPs are responsible for continually reevaluating their palliative care competency to identify learning gaps and, where necessary, engaging in continuing professional development education.
The Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care Competency Framework is a standardized resource to inform and guide team-building activities, professional development, continuing education programs, accreditation, regulated professional and employer standards and academic curricula.
Questions and feedback can be sent to: palliative.institute@covenanthealth.ca.
These 14 discipline-specific competency frameworks enable health care providers (HCPs) and volunteers to engage in self-assessment of knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes toward palliative care. These standardized resources complement the Alberta Interprofessional Palliative Care Competency Framework to inform and guide team-building activities, professional development, continuing education programs, accreditation, regulated professional and employer standards and academic curricula.
Alberta Palliative Care Competency Framework - Technical Report
