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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.
Registration open. Please register by 9 Apr 2024.
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”.
This 9 half-days course aims to increase participants’ confidence and competence in caring for patients with life-limiting conditions.
27 and 28 Jun 2024
Registration opens late Apr 2024
This two-day workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to obtain a holistic understand of burnout, well as a true appreciation of self-care via an immerse experience with Mindful-Compassion Art Therapy (MCAT).
9 and 10 May 2024
Registration opens early Mar 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.
16, 17, 23, and 24 Jul 2024
Registration opens mid May 2024
The four-day course aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed holistic palliative care in any healthcare setting by enhancing their role as part of a multidisciplinary team.
1 and 2 Aug 2024
Registration opens early Jun 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.
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.
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.
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.