Topic - Palliative care in general practice
Content
Identifying palliative care and Advance Care Planning needs.
Concepts covered in this course include:
- Learning to initiate palliative care and ACP in general practice in a routine and sensitive way;
- Learning how nurse facilitated screening of patients and their carers will support general practices to more efficiently address patients’ and carers’ needs; and
- Developing skills to use the Advance Project screening and assessment tools.
The Advance Project dementia training.
This course aims to enable better healthcare outcomes for people living with dementia, and to build capacity in aged and primary care to:
- Initiate conversations about advance care planning with people living with different stages of dementia.
- Empower and prepare families to advocate for the person’s end of life care wishes in the future.
- Identify people with dementia who would benefit from a structured assessment of their palliative care needs.
- Systematically assess the palliative care needs of the person living with dementia.
- Identify those people with dementia who would most benefit from referral to specialist palliative care services.
Depth
Intermediate / Advanced
Time to Complete
2-3 hours for palliative care modules, 4 hours for dementia modules
Target Audience
General Practice Nurses
Authors
The Advance Project
Comments
The Advance Project offers a range of learning options for general practice nurses to develop their knowledge of, and skills in using, screening tools to support the provision of palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) in everyday general practice.
The online training activity for General Practice Nurses has been endorsed by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) according to approved quality standards criteria.
Registration Required
Yes
Payment Required
No
Student Support
Yes
Certificate
Yes
Country of Origin
Australia
Web Address
https://www.theadvanceproject.com.au/theadvanceproject/tabid/5253/Default.aspx
Page updated 15 November 2022