Paediatric Palliative Care: essential
components and best practice
Palliative care for children remains a relatively small but
integral part of the health care services. A child receiving
the services of palliative care can require assistance with
establishing links to various community organisations
that can support them over years of a slowly declining
trajectory, to end of life care over a short space of time. For
those unused to caring for children the challenge of their
needs can be overwhelming. Increasingly, the demands for
education and training in the specialised needs of children
and their families are being sought, as families seek to
remain at home during the time of their child’s illness in
order to maintain as normal a lifestyle as possible.
This webinar aims to offer some basic guidelines about
paediatric palliative care. It will cover:
>definitions
> models of paediatric care
> the needs of a dying child and family
> overview paediatric palliative
> supporting families – including childhood issues,
adolescent issues
> models and approaches to paediatric palliative care
> communicating with children and families
> children’s understanding of death
> sibling grief.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This webinar will earn 1 CPD hour towards your
professional development.
DATE
Wednesday 29 April 2015
TIME
6.00pm – 7.00pm AEDT
WEBINAR COST
$22 (ACN members)
$30 (non-members)
WEBINAR PRESENTER
Jude Frost
CNC Palliative Care
Department of Pain Medicine
and Palliative Care
Jude has worked at the
Children’s Hospital at Westmead
for the past 25 years. Currently,
and for the last 12 years, she
has been the Clinical Nurse
Consultant for Paediatric Palliative Care. Prior to that
she was both a registered nurse and a nurse educator
for paediatric oncology. Jude has been an integral part
of establishing and developing paediatric palliative care
nursing, as part of a multi-disciplinary team which has
provided care to children within the institution and at
home. She has established links and developed resources
with community organisations, including publishing a
manual for schools who are seeking to support children
receiving palliative care. She regularly provides education
to a wide range of community organisations and supports
adult health care services in the community, who are
providing palliative care to children. Jude currently serves
on the Australia and New Zealand Reference Group, the
SCHN Paediatric Advisory Group and continues to seek
ways to enhance the care that children and their families
receiving palliative care need.
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