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.

The following topics will be covered:

• Pain and concept of ‘Total Pain’
• Pain assessment and its barriers
• Different types of pain and its common descriptors
• World Health Organization ‘analgesic ladder’
• The non-pharmacological approach in the management of pain
• The pharmacological approach including commonly used opioids in cancer pain
• The role of nurses in assessment and management of pain

Please refer to the brochure here.

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the concept of ‘Total Pain’
• Apply commonly used pain assessment tools
• Identify barriers in pain assessment
• Recognise different types of pain and its common descriptors
• Articulate World Health Organization ‘analgesic ladder’
• Demonstrate non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches to pain management

Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, and Nursing Support Care Staff working in nursing homes, hospices, or community hospitals who care for patients with life-limiting conditions

Ms Sylvia Lee Ling Ling
Advanced Practice Nurse, Dover Park Hospice (Home Care)

Post-Master’s Adv Cert in Palliative Care (USA), MN & BN (Syd),
Palliative Care NP (NY), Registered Nurse

Sylvia is the first Palliative Care Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) in Singapore. She began her journey as a Palliative Care nurse since 1999, after completing her Master of Nursing (Clinical Practice – Gerontology) at the University of Sydney, Australia. In mid-2006, she completed her Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate: Advanced Practice Nursing in Palliative Care at New York University, USA. She obtained her license to practise as Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in New York State & being accredited by US National Board for Certification of Hospice & Palliative Nurses to practise as Advanced Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (2006-2010).

Sylvia is currently an Advanced Practice Nurse (Palliative Care) with the Home Care and Programme Dignity team (integrated palliative home care services) at Dover Park Hospice.

Sylvia is also a certified End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium – International (ELNEC) trainer. She is actively involved in providing Palliative Care Nursing training to nurses from various care settings at basic and advanced practice level.

In 2009, Sylvia was awarded the prestigious ‘President’s Award for Nurses’, and in 2004, she received the inaugural ‘Healthcare Humanity Award’, in recognition of her contributions to palliative care nursing.

Course fees: SGD 183.12 per person (including 9% GST)

* Eligible Community Care Organisations (CCOs) may tap into the Community Care Training Grant (CCTG) to subsidize course fees.
* This course is not eligible for SkillsFuture Funding (SFC)

Date: 20 May 2025
Time: 1pm to 5.30pm
Venue: Online Zoom platform

For enquiries, please email to enquiries@palc.org.sg