Palliative Approach to care

Name: Palliative Approach to care
Start: 2025-03-13T09:00:00+1100
End: 2025-03-13T16:30:00+1100
Location: Quest Bendigo Central

Thu, 13 Mar 2025, 9am - 4:30pm AEDT

Quest Bendigo Central

bendigo, australia

PEPA VIC

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Event description

Workshop Outline

The aim of this workshop is to improve the understanding and practice of the healthcare workforce in the palliative approach to care through:

Understanding the important role that palliative care plays in the lives of people with life-limiting illness and their families / carers
Increasing confidence to provide holistic and person-centred care to those affected by life-limiting illness.

Workshop Content

Principles of palliative care
Communication
Providing care
Advance care planning
End-of-life care
Ethical issues in palliative care
Caring for yourself

Target audience:

Health care professionals working in aged care with limited or no palliative care experience

Facilitator:

Kerrie Cunningham: Kerrie has been working in palliative care and providing education for over 15 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.

Date:

Cost: Free (morning tea and lunch provided)

Time:

Venue:

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 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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