Palliative Care Two Day Program

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as part of the Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service invites nurses and allied health staff to attend this informative two-day program.

This is an introductory 2-day program which focuses on the care of patients in the palliative care setting. Topics include:

• Precinct summary
• Pain management case study
• Adolescent/young adults and palliative care
• Moral distress faced by nurses – ethics and palliative care
• Care of the deceased
• Death at home
• Challenging management at the end of life
• Communication skills
• Symptom management
• Voluntary assisted dying
• Clinical debrief

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