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Symptom Management in Palliative Care

CPD and short courses (short course)

Overview

Take advantage of being within a specialist hospice education centre to expand your palliative care knowledge and skills. Learn from professionals in a wide range of disciplines, as you deepen your understanding of pain and other symptoms and their treatment. Explore how to care for and support patients with advanced disease or who are dying, their families and the bereaved.

At the heart of good palliative care is the management of pain and its symptoms, so this course will deepen your understanding of effective strategies for the relief of pain and its symptoms. You’ll consider the concept of total pain and the associated notion of suffering.  Throughout the course are threaded the 6 Cs: care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.

You’ll explore the roles and value of pharmacology and the multi-disciplinary team. You’ll learn to critically apply in-depth knowledge to the management of pain and its symptoms in far-advanced cancer and palliative care. You’ll also generate strategies for improving the quality of life of dying patients.

Course content

  • Evidence based practice
  • The use of opioid analgesia in palliative care
  • The management of nausea & vomiting
  • Respiratory symptoms & their palliation
  • The management of other refractory symptoms
  • Total pain
  • Suffering

Who should attend?

Registered healthcare practitioners who work with patients with advanced terminal disease, in any clinical or supportive care setting.

Dates

There are no confirmed dates for this course. View our other short courses and workshops.

Where you'll study

Your faculty

The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care at ARU is primed to meet the demand for healthcare professionals, doctors, scientists and social workers in the East of England.

We've been training undergraduates for professional roles for over 25 years, with a reputation for quality, dedication and ambition balanced with student satisfaction.

We know that our students want the very best experiential learning, and we've invested heavily in purpose-built simulated wards, science labs and skills spaces, to support your learning every step of the way.

Where can I study?

Fees & funding

Contact details

CPD Admissions team
01245 686868
[email protected]

Entry requirements

To access this course, you will be a registered practitioner working with patients with advanced disease and/or at the end of their life in any clinical and/or supportive care setting.

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