Palliative care education & training
Education in palliative care can support you and your pharmacy team to provide more compassionate, informed, and comprehensive care to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
The Department of Health and Aged Care fund a number of organisations to produce resources and deliver education and training programs for health and aged care workers. These resources and programs focus on palliative care skills and competencies including:
- the principles of palliative care
- end-of-life care
- ethical and legal issues
- communication skills
- psychosocial and spiritual issues
- identifying and controlling symptoms
- multidisciplinary care and teamwork.
Pharmacists are encouraged to visit https://www.health.gov.au/topics/palliative-care/education-and-training for a full range of palliative care education training programs relevant to your role, scope of practice, and learning needs
Primary care training
- Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
- Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA)
- Advance Project
- End-of-life Essentials
- End of Life Law for Clinicians
- Care Search
- Palliative Care Outcome Collaboration - Primary care
- Primary Care Toolkit – End of Life Directions for Aged Care
- National Palliative Care Standards for All Health Professionals and Aged Care Services - Palliative Care Australia
Aged care training
- End-of-Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)
- Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U)
- Equip Aged Care Learning Package
- Talking End of Life ...with people with intellectual disability (TEL)
- palliAGED
- Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program
- Linkages Program - ELDAC.
Other recommended resources
Page last updated on: 24 June 2024