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Palliative and End of Life Care - an Awareness Day
Wednesday 18th September 2024
9:30 am to 4:00 pm
The Hospice of St Francis, HP4 3GW
Who should attend:
Would you like to gain awareness about palliative and end of life care?
Gain confidence in supporting individuals who are dying?
Learn how to talk about death and dying and what might be important in the future? If so, this may be the course for you.
Open to any health or social care professional who wishes to gain a basic awareness about palliative and end of life care.
Also suitable for care home staff, social care providers, allied health professionals and anyone with an interest in palliative care.
Course Aims:
To provide an overview of what palliative care can offer to individuals.
Objectives:
- To identify when individuals are deteriorating
- To recognise dying and the care individuals need
- To state the importance of effective communication
- To describe approaches to future planning
- To state what normal grief looks like and what help bereaved individuals may need
Presented by
Claire Nicell
Joint Head of Education and Learning
Her palliative care experience has involved working in hospitals, hospices and as a Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. More recently her focus and experience has switched to education. Within Hertfordshire she was part of the ABC project delivering palliative and end of life care to care homes throughout the county and then spent 18 months with the palliative care team at Watford General Hospital implementing The Rose Project (to promote dignity and respect at the end of life).
Claire loves working collaboratively with different colleagues across the social and health care sectors and helping individuals apply the principles of palliative care to their setting to promote excellent palliative care for those they care for.
She keeps her hand in clinically by working with her colleagues in the Community Palliative Care team and supporting a support group for patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis to ensure she practices what she teaches!
Dee Cooke
Lecturer Practitioner/ Nurse
Dee has worked in a range of settings including a community team, care home improvement team and clinical skills facilitator team.
Dee joined the team in April 2024 and works clinically alongside delivering end of life care education.
Dee is passionate about supporting staff to get it right even in stressful situations.
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