Presents information pertaining to palliative care in the Australia, with emphasis on postgraduate medical education. Reference to the development of palliative care program by the Monash University's School of Nursing; Details on th...
In order to meet the changing needs of the population and increased demand for the service, the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (PCNS) and Hospice at Home (H at H) teams have had to re-evaluate why and how care was delivered, whilst continuing to ensure a patient focused service...
Drive systemic change in end-of-life care research at St Vincent's Hospital whilst practicing and learning across methodologies Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immed...
Pallium Canada (Pallium) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2000 to build primary palliative care capacity nationally across Canada. It has done this largely through its interprofessional Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courses which target providers across ...
illness. In later courses, you will learn to ease pain and other symptoms, such as loss of appetite, shortness of breath and fatigue. In the final course, you will explore ways to ease psycho-social-spiritual distress. These courses will prepare you to bring basic palliative care to all ...
Pediatric Palliative Care Sandra Schvetz Argentina, Buenos Aires Music Sofia Bunge Argentina, Olavarria Palliative Medicine Vilma Tripodoro Argentina, Buenos Aires Palliative Care Artashes Tadevosyan Armenia, Yerevan Public Health Alyson Gundry Australia, Brisbane Pediatric Palliative Care Anil Tandon...
The EAPC White Paper addresses the issue of spiritual care education for all palliative care professionals. It is to guide health care professionals involved in teaching or training of palliative care and spiritual care; stakeholders, leaders and decision makers responsible for training and education;...
CareSearch, a palliative care network based in Australia, has a bevy of freely available resources for health care professionals. It includes resources grouped into packets for specific topics, including: acute care, primary care, forms for case conferences, guides for GPs, and guides for nurses....
Additional tools are necessary to help physicians identify patients who would benefit from short treatment courses or alternative interventions to maximize quality at the end of life. Keywords: Palliative radiotherapy, End-of-life care, Cancer Summary Over half of patients undergoing radiation are ...
The responses from Australia metropolitan areas totalled 51.7 per cent and those from Australian rural and remote areas totalled 48.3 per cent (302). The results showed that the specific education and training needs, as identified by the palliative care providers, included pain management, loss and...