Gurjit Sangha

Gurjit Sangha is the Pediatric Palliative Care Facilitator in the Women’s & Children’s Program at Trillium Health Partners (THP). Gurjit is a Registered Nurse with her Master’s Degree in Nursing and her certification in Hospice Palliative Care Nursing through the Canadian Nurses’ Association. Gurjit cares for children with life limiting conditions and their families within the hospital and in the community, including symptom management, advanced care planning, communication with children about dying and death, anticipatory guidance for end of life care, and psychosocial support through bereavement. In addition she provides informal and formal education regarding paediatric palliative care to inter-professional team members and supports health care providers in the hospital and the community as they care for children through end of life. In her spare time Gurjit enjoys watching her children play hockey and playing hockey herself.