Topic

Palliative care in general practice

Content

Identifying palliative care and Advance Care Planning needs. Concepts covered in this course include:

  • Learning to initiate palliative care and ACP in general practice in a routine and sensitive way;
  • Learning how nurse facilitated screening of patients and their carers will support general practices to more efficiently address patients’ and carers’ needs; and
  • Developing skills to use the Advance Project screening and assessment tools.

Depth

 Intermediate / Advanced

Target audience

General Practice Nurses

Authors

The Advance Project

Comments

The Advance Project offers a range of learning options for general practice nurses to develop their knowledge of, and skills in using, screening tools to support the provision of palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) in everyday general practice.

The online training activity for General Practice Nurses has been endorsed by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) according to approved quality standards criteria.

Registration required

Yes

Payment required

No

Student support

Yes

Certificate

Yes

Country of origin

Australia

Web address

https://www.theadvanceproject.com.au/tabid/5253/Default.aspx

Last updated 13 August 2021