Yasmin Birchall, Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association - Palliative Care Training and...

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