Exploring Compassionate Communication in Palliative Care

Name: Exploring Compassionate Communication in Palliative Care
Start: 2025-02-12T13:00:00+1100
End: 2025-02-12T16:30:00+1100
Location: Century Inn Traralgon

Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 1pm - 4:30pm AEDT

Century Inn Traralgon

traralgon, australia

PEPA VIC

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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.

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.

Topics covered include:

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

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

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The Australian Government Department of Health funds a range of national palliative care projects to enhance the quality of palliative care service delivery and increase support for people who are living with life limiting illness, who require end-of-life care, their families and carers. The overall aim is to improve access to high quality palliative care for all Australians as they require it.

The Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) forms part of the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative. As a national palliative care project, this Collaborative takes a strategic approach to education and training of the health workforce and delivers programs for priority health care provider groups across primary, secondary and tertiary settings.

Specifically, PEPA aims to enhance the capacity of health professionals to deliver a palliative care approach through their participation in either clinical placements in specialist palliative care services or interactive workshops.

PEPA provides opportunities to develop confidence, knowledge and skills in the palliative approach to care through:

funded clinical workforce placements or workshops
integration of learning into your workplace
establishing networks of support

The PEPA learning experience can help you, as a health care provider, to:

gain a clear understanding of the principles of good palliative care
identify the needs of your patients with life-limiting conditions
understand the role of your discipline in managing common problems faced by palliative care patients
recognise your own knowledge base/scope of practice in regard to optimal palliative care provision
identify personal coping strategies for effective management of personal issues related to working in this area.

PEPA is being implemented in all Australian states and territories and applicants from rural and remote areas are encouraged to apply.

This program provides an ideal opportunity to learn from experienced specialist staff to enhance skills, knowledge and experience in the palliative approach.

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