Palliative Care in Residential Aged Care | Online

When: Thursday 27 March | 2.00pm – 3.00pm AWST

Designed for:
Health Students, Paid Carers, Nurse Assistants, Enrolled Nurses, Registered Nurses, Clinical Nurses, Nurse Managers, Nurse Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, Social Workers, and Facility Managers.

Overview:
A palliative approach benefits residents with a life-limiting illness, their care team, families, and the residential aged care home. This approach helps to prevent resident suffering through means of early identification, assessment, and effective treatment of pain, as well as physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care. Palliative care focuses on a multidisciplinary approach, ensuring all staff are well prepared to provide care.

This webinar aims to increase confidence in identifying and delivering a palliative approach by outlining the tools and strategies that can improve a resident’s quality of life.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Define a palliative approach and identify when it should be used.
2. Identify tools to embed a palliative approach into your facility.
3. Describe what palliative care is in a residential aged care home setting.

Presented By:
Natalie Joseph
Clinical Nurse, Improvement Facilitator, Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program (PACOP).