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Palliative Care Training and Information
Portal ww.palliativecareonline.com.au
Yasmin Birchall
Project Manager
Palliative care online training and information portal
• Professional development for all who work with older people in the community
• Fully funded by Dept of Health
• Specifically designed for Australian context
• Enhances knowledge/skills around palliative care in aged care and community sectors
• Certificates, CPD and RPL available
• Readily useable as whole-of-organisation or work group training
Who is the training for?
• Anyone who works with people receiving palliative care – not a clinical skills program
• All members of multidisciplinary care teams
• Volunteers
• Carers
Achievements
• Over 21,000 participants to date
• Broad reach across health sector
• Almost half of participants are from community sector (home care workers, community care organisations)
• Strong engagement with volunteers/carers
• Extremely high satisfaction rates
Training overview
• Evidence-based guidelines for palliative care provision in the community setting in Australia
• Assisting people with a life-limiting illness
• Understanding end-of-life needs
• Advanced care planning
• Pain management
• Recognising deteriorating clients
Objective
To enhance skill development, education and training for all people who deliver services to palliative care patients National Palliative Care Strategy 2010, Goal 5:
To enhance the capacity of health and human
services to provide quality palliative care,
through an adequately skilled workforce
Cost effective
Easy scheduling around work commitments
No travel time
Self paced, no limits for completion
Ability to engage with facilitators remotely
Self-marking assessments provide immediate feedback on progress
Benefits
6 online modules
Course content – 4 COMPAC modules
• Explore and understand Guidelines • Apply the Guidelines when assisting
people with life-limiting illness • Reflect on own practice • Reflect on end of life needs • Screening and assessment skills • Advanced care planning
Course content – 2 skills modules
New, revised portal launched in July
• 2 new modules
Pain management
Recognising the deteriorating patient
• Updated COMPAC modules, plus new resources
• Focus on skills development
Module 2: Planning and implementing the palliative approach
Module 3: Providing care and support to patients and carers
Module 4: Working within a multidisciplinary team
Feedback
I will be asking all
of my staff who
wish to work in
palliative care in-
home to undertake
this excellent
training
This training is relatively easy to complete and is
very accessible.
I would encourage all organisations that say
they provide a palliative approach to care to
make this training part of the orientation process
for new staff.
I will recommend this package as a mandatory part of our workplace’s online training and also that it be completed by all new employees.
How have organisations used the portal?
• Adding the portal link to organisational intranet/internet pages
• Using the training as part of staff induction or formal training
• Encouraging individual staff to complete the training as part of their professional development
• Promoting the training through networks
http://www.palliativecareonline.com.au/ to register or to find out more