Topic - Palliative care in general practice
Content
Identifying palliative care and Advance Care Planning needs.
Concepts covered in this course include:
- Learning about the benefits and role of general practice in Advance Care Planning and early identification and assessment of patients’ palliative and supportive care needs.
- Learning how to use a systematic approach to initiating Advance Care Planning and assessing patients’ and carers’ palliative and supportive care needs using The Advance Project Guide and evidence-based tools.
- Learning how practice managers can support GPs and general practice nurses to start implementing the Advance Project assessment tools into everyday clinical practice.
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
Approximately 2 hours for palliative care modules, 4 hours for dementia modules
Target Audience
Practice managers
Authors
The Advance Project
Comments
The Advance Project offers a range of learning options for practice managers 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.
Registration Required
Yes
Payment Required
No
Student Support
Yes
Certificate
Yes
Country of Origin
Australia
Web Address
https://www.theadvanceproject.com.au/tabid/5232/Default.aspx
Page updated 23 January 2023