Palliative care focuses on improving quality of life by pain control and symptom management. It is offered usually to clients with an advanced illness, when cure is no longer possible. Care for the dying offers dignity and the most comfort possible, so great skill and sensitivity is required. This course provides the best methods of care for the client, emphasising the physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs that arise with advanced illness.
 

Learners should be able to describe and                    Key areas looked at include
demonstrate where applicable:                                  • Working with a palliative care approach
• What is Palliative Care?                                              • Communication skills
• Cancer and life limiting illness                                    • Death and dying
• Specialist care teams                                                    • Bereavement care
• Role of the carer
• Impact on the close family
• Coping methods
• Positive communication skills
• Strategies for advice and help
• Bereavement care
• Needs of vulnerable groups (e.g. children)
 

Duration: 3 Days

Entry Requirements:  Leaving Certificate or relevant qualifications and/or relevant life and work experience.Participants must speak and work in English at a standard appropriate to the course content.
 

Qualifications: Fetac Level 5
 

Course Code: D 20170
 

Assessment:  Learner Record: 70% (a detailed journal based on a specific brief) 
                                                  30% (a written assignment as per the brief)