Palliative Care Training
Face to Face Introduction to Palliative Care
The course aims to give a basic overview of palliative care and orientate and introduce health care providers to palliative care processes and principles within the WCDOH.
Target group: Medical Officers, Registered Professional Nurses, Clinical Nurse Practitioners and social and allied workers.
A five-day interactive contact session with theoretical and practical components using adult learning principles.
All correspondence to be directed to: Amanda Sables (E) amanda@hpca.co.za
Coordinator: Leonore Haley
Online Introduction to Palliative Care
The course aims to give a basic overview of palliative care and orientate and introduce health care providers to palliative care processes and principles within the WCDOH.
Target group: Medical Officers, Registered Professional Nurses, Clinical Nurse Practitioners and social and allied workers.
A 10 week online interactive experience, requiring approximately 2 hours of reading per week and a 90-minute virtual Zoom meeting once per week. The course contains theoretical and practical application components using adult learning principles.
All correspondence to be directed to: Amanda Sables (E) amanda@hpca.co.za
Course Coordinator: Fiona Shraga
Introduction to Palliative Care
This short course course will equip healthcare and counselling professionals to assess and manage patients living with life-threatening and life-limiting illness, to improve their quality of life and to support their families in providing care at home.
The course has been developed as an e-learning course and will be presented by the Hospice Palliative Care Association and the University of Cape Town on the UCT Vula platform.
Each of the 8 modules requires 5 hours of teaching and learning. Each module is covered in a 2 week period. Candidates will complete the course within 4 month period (16 weeks).
Next course dates: 16 May 2021, 18 July 2021
Palliative Care Home Training
Online Training for Health professionals, caregivers and family members looking after loved ones at home.
With the COVID-19 Pandemic restricting usual access to hospital/clinic care, came the realization that patients are needing increased Palliative Care Homecare support in the community. Guidelines were developed to assist Health Professionals, primary caregivers and family members, when needing to manage patients in the home environment. Now we are offering FREE training on the guidelines developed!
February to April 2021
Postgraduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine
Are you caring for patients with serious illness? Do you require the core competencies to improve their quality of life?
This is a one year part-time course offered by the Division of Family Medicine, UCT. There are two contact sessions of 1 week each; online learning between contact sessions.
Applications are open to all Health Care Professionals working with patients with life limiting illnesses. This includes doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, clergy: any Undergraduate degree relevant to Palliative Care.
Short Course in Palliative Medicine
The discipline of Palliative Care focusses on the management of patients with life-limiting conditions including the terminal phase of the illness and management of the dying patient and their families. It deals with ensuring quality of life and well-being and ensuring dignity in death. Palliative care is a process that deals with a continuum of care from diagnosis onwards and this journey of the patient and the family of that patient mainly takes place in the community where the family practitioner is the cornerstone of co-ordinating continuous care as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
This course aims to equip the family practitioner for this critical role by enhancing the knowledge and skills of the family practitioner in the care of the patient with life-limiting disease and aging.
Duration: 12 weeks
Starting date: 2021 dates to be confirmed
A palliative approach for Health Care Professionals
The aim is to introduce health care professionals to principles of palliative care, management of pain and common symptoms, managing psychosocial and spiritual.
- One week interactive sessions
- One week practical component to be done in a Palliative Care Unit
- A portfolio must be submitted 6 months after completing the course.
This course is available online.