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Education
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Courses We Offer
REGISTRATION OPEN. PLEASE REGISTER BY 18 JUL 2024
As our population ages, more people will be developing chronic medical conditions which will progress and eventually lead to death. The challenges of managing a patient with advanced non-cancer conditions can be fairly different from caring for someone who is suffering from advanced cancer. The 2-day course will highlight these challenges and focus on palliative care approaches to help healthcare professionals manage non-cancer end-of-life care better.
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This 9 half-days course aims to increase participants’ confidence and competence in caring for patients with life-limiting conditions.
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7 and 8 Nov 2024
Registration opens early Sep 2024
The two-day course gives an overview and summary of the field of thanatology. It explores the social, cultural, psychological, legal, ethical, and spiritual issues raised by illness, dying, death and bereavement.
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22 Oct 2024
Registration opens late Aug 2024
What do we know about death and dying? Has it been medicalized? This 4-hour workshop will give participants an understanding of the nursing, psychosocial, spiritual needs of patients at the end of life.
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19 and 20 Sep 2024
Registration opens mid Jul 2024
The interactive workshop aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed palliative care in advanced dementia.
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3 Oct 2024
Registration opens early Aug 2024
The programme involves i) 2-weeks of self-directed online study, where participants will be given access to online materials to study at their own pace, and ii) a 0.5-day virtual classroom session.
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2024 course run completed
Access to supportive care, palliative care and end-of-life care are essential for persons living with an advance illness. In this course, community health and social care professionals will be offered a foundational overview of psychosocial issues faced by their clients living across illness trajectories in the community, and consider their roles in providing holistic support.
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2024 course run completed
This 4.5-hour workshop is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients experiencing pain at the end of life. This includes understanding what pain is and identifying different types of pain. Participants will learn how to conduct pain assessment, using pain assessment tools and strategies. Pain management strategies, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, will also be introduced.
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Ethics lies at the heart of healthcare. For patients who are at the end-of-life and their families, it is important for healthcare professionals to apply ethical principles in order to make decisions in their best interest. Recognising this, the course will focus on the theme of “Decision-Making for the Complex, the Frail and the Vulnerable”.
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This two-day professional workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn and experience a novel and clinically robust Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for cultivating existential wholeness among terminally-ill patients and their families facing the end of life.
Our Partners
 PalC c/o Dover Park Hospice, TTSH Integrated Care Hub, 1 Tan Tock Seng Link, Singapore 307382 |
