Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Key Principles of Palliative Care
The University of the West Indies
This course provided a comprehensive overview of palliative care including the global need by patients and their families for quality palliative care. Topics covered in the course included the assessment and symptoms of common ailments such as pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, and shortness of breath. The course also outlined ways in which to start and navigate difficult conversations regarding loss and the end of life in order to help you provide excellent, holistic care for your patients.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Terence Seemungal
Professor of Medicine
The University of the West Indies
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Justify the need for palliative care globally
- Assess the symptoms of pain, nausea and vomiting and dyspnea in a palliative care context
- Outline the scope of palliative care
- Identify their role as palliative care advocates in their own context
- Apply basic therapeutic communication skills to create safe communication environments for palliative care patients
- Describe the role of silence in conversations
Syllabus
- Understanding palliative care
- Scope of palliative care: Who, What, Where, When, How and Why
- Fundamental principles of the management of palliative care including pain, nausea and vomiting, fatigue and shortness of breath
- Conversational skills with the ambivalent patient
- How to having difficult family discussions successfully
Issued on 11th September 2022
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