Topic
Palliative care training for qualified and undergraduate health professionals
Content
Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) promotes the inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing, and allied health undergraduate and entry-to-practice training, and ongoing post-graduate professional development.
Core modules
- Module 1: Principles of palliative care
- Module 2: Communicating with people with life-limiting illnesses
- Module 3: Palliative assessment & intervention
- Module 4: Optimising function in palliative care
Focus topics
- Topic 1: Multidisciplinary care
- Topic 2: Caring for Aboriginal people with life-limiting conditions
- Topic 3: Caring for children with life-limiting conditions
- Topic 4: Culture-centred care of people with life-limiting conditions
Ongoing professional development
Core modules
As above
Focus topics
- Topic 1: Principles of palliative care
- Topic 2: Communicating with people with life-limiting conditions
- Topic 3: Assessing and managing symptoms
- Topic 4: Optimising function in palliative care
EN Toolkit
A suite of eLearning Modules and resources which aims to develop capacity in the Enrolled Nurse workforce.
Focus topics
- Topic 1: Principles of palliative care
- Topic 2: Communicating with people with life-limiting conditions
- Topic 3: Principles of symptom assessment and management
- Topic 4: Assessment and management of pain
- Topic 5: Optimising function in palliative care
- Topic 6: Terminal care and bereavement support
Careworker Toolkit
A suite of eLearning Modules and resources which aims to develop capacity in the careworker workforce.
Focus topics
- Topic 1: The Principles and aims of a palliative care approach
- Topic 2: Supporting care
- Topic 3: Providing care
- Topic 4: End of life care strategies
- Topic 5: Managing your own emotional responses
Cultural safety tool kit
The toolkit supports holistic and culturally responsive care. It has been designed to educate health professionals about the important role they play in breaking down the access barriers to mainstream healthcare, experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This toolkit has three modules:
- Part 1: About me and my workplace
- Part 2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
- Part 3: Providing care through engagement and partnerships
Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professionals
Supporting our health workforce to walk alongside people living with life-limiting illness and at the end of life
This toolkit has five modules:
- Understanding palliative care
- Yarning about palliative care
- Symptom management in palliative care
- Loss, grief and healing
- Looking after yourself
Depth
Varies according to intended audience.
Target audience
Varies according to course.
Qualified and undergraduate health professionals wanting to expand their knowledge and skill set will find the self-directed online learning of interest and can choose the most appropriate course from the PCC4U website.
The Care Worker Toolkit is a suite of resources that have been designed to support learning in relevant Certificate III and IV healthcare training packages. It is intended for delivery by educators and is aligned to the unit of competency CHCPAL001 Deliver care services using a palliative approach (Release 2).
The EN toolkit is aligned and mapped to the unit of competency HLTENN010 Apply a Palliative Approach in Nursing Practice.
Time to complete
Depends on course and user.
Authors
Professor Patsy Yates, Kylie Ash and the PCC4U team at Queensland University of Technology
Comments
The four core principles of the PCC4U project underpin all courses.
Educator resources are available for many of these learning options. Click here for information about PCC4U resources for educators.
Registration required
Undergraduate and postgraduate learning modules do not require registration.
Registration is required for the EN, Careworker, Cultural Safety toolkits and the Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professionals.
Payment required
No
Student support
Yes
Certificate
Yes, a participation certificate is available for some, although EN and Careworker modules are designed for integration into certificate courses through which this would be obtained.
Country of origin
Australia
Web Address
https://pcc4u.org.au/learning/
For further information
Kylie Ash
PCC4U National Project Manager
Queensland University of Technology
t:
07 3138 6128
e:
k.ash@qut.edu.au
Page updated 01 March 2024