Target audience: Health professionals working in non-specialist palliative care environments, who want to develop confidence in communicating effectively and respectfully with people with life-limiting and chronic illnesses, and their families.

Exploring Compassionate Communication in Palliative Care

Aim

Acquire knowledge, skills and confidence in having meaningful but often difficult conversations about terminal illness, palliative care and grief with people living with a life-limiting illness, and their families.

Topics covered include:

Brief overview of the palliative approach to care
Introduction to compassionate communication skills
Case-based experiential learning (facilitated communication skills practice)

Exploring Loss and Grief in Palliative Care

Aim

Acquire knowledge, skills and confidence in understanding loss and grief, including the role of health care providers in supporting grieving individuals and families both before and after death.

Topics covered include:

Introduction to loss and grief and the impact on patients and families
Overview of differing ideas and models of grief
Introduction to supporting grieving individuals within the palliative care context

Facilitator:

Kerrie Cunningham - Kerrie has been working in palliative care and providing education for over 20 years, across a variety of settings, including rural remote Australia and metropolitan Melbourne. Kerrie is dedicated to helping enhance and enrich health professionals understanding of palliative care, which in turn leads to improved patient and family outcomes.

Cost: Free (morning tea and lunch provided)

Enquires: PEPA Administration Officer: pepa@svha.org.au

If you have registered and find you are unable to attend, please advise us as soon as possible, as these workshops are in high demand and we can offer your place to another participant. If you do not advise us and don't attend, you will incur an administration fee. Thank you for your understanding.

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Placements:

Would you like to see first hand what specialist palliative care providers do?

Observational clinical placements are available for doctors, nurses, allied health and Aboriginal health professionals who are employed in health fields (e.g. hospitals, community, residential aged care facilities, general practice).

Apply through the PEPA website https://pepaeducation.com