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GRPCC eNews
Life and Death Matters
The GRPCC eNews Life & Death Matters will be sent out bi-monthly to provide you with current information about the work being carried out by the GRPCC and its members, as well as upcoming education and training. If you have been forwarded the GRPCC eNews from a colleague or friend and would like to receive your own copy, click the subscribe button below
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Welcome to this enewsletter-
- GRPCC
- GRPCC Specialist Palliative Care Service Quickguide
- Carer Symptom Management Sheets
- Education and events
- Gippsland Health Summit
- Palliative approach workshop for the community aged care and disability care environment, case managers and clinical advisors
- 2017 Australian Palliative Care Conference - Connection with Community
Abstracts and Registrations now open
- Resources and information
- In the news/ research
- Honest communication paramount for patients dying expected deaths in hospital
- Aged care providers central to community-led palliative care: expert
- We Don’t Know Death: 7 Assumptions We Make about Dying
- One third of elderly patients receive futile treatment before they die
- National Awareness Weeks
- National Volunteer Week
- National Palliative Care Week
- NAIDOC Week
- Dementia Awareness Month
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GRPCC
GRPCC Specialist Palliative Care Service Quickguide
The GRPCC is pleased to announce the release of the Specialist Palliative Care Service Quickguide. This guide provides valuable information about the Palliative Care Services available across Gippsland.
The Quickguide was designed for a wide variety of people working in the healthcare, human services, social and community sectors whose everyday work brings them into contact with people who have a life-limiting illness, as a ‘why, when and how’ of referral to specialist palliative care.
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Carer Symptom Management sheets
The GRPCC Clinical Practice Group (CPG) has produced multiple guidelines and documents to assist health professionals and carers in recognising and delivering evidence based practice in palliative care.
The importance of evidence based practice cannot be underestimated in the palliative care environment, whether in the community, in residential aged care, or the inpatient setting. We will be featuring one of the guidelines each newsletter. This month highlights Carer Symptom Management sheets, covering the topics
- Steps to relieve Anxiety and Restlessness
- Steps to relieve Constipation
- Steps to relieve Pain
- Steps to relieve Difficulty in breathing
- Steps to relieve Nausea and Vomiting
To view the Carer Symptom Management sheets and other CPG endorsed Guidelines click on the buttons below.
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Palliative approach workshop for the community aged care and disability care environment, case managers and clinical advisors
The workshop is interactive and provides time for discussion through case presentations and examples. Topics covered include:
- What is the palliative approach?
- Cancer and Life limiting illnesses- What you need to know
- Assessment and care planning
- Managing common symptoms
- Supporting the psychosocial needs of clients
- Supporting the spiritual needs of clients
- Caring for the professional caregiver.
Date: Thursday 27th April 2017
Location: Traralgon Vineyard, Burnets Rd, Traralgon
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm (registration from 9.00am for 9.30am start)
Cost: Free (morning tea, lunch provided)
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2017 Australian Palliative Care Conference - Connection with Community
Abstracts and Registrations now open
Abstracts are open for the 2017 Australian Palliative Care Conference - Connection with Community. Abstracts are welcome from anyone with an interest in palliative care – doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, academics, volunteers, carers, researchers, educators, advocates, consumers, families, industry partners, peak bodies and national associations. The call for conference abstracts is now open and closes on Tuesday 18 April 2017. Click on the banner below to be directed to the Conference Website
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Resources
Community Languages
Palliative Care Victoria recently updated their Families & Patients section of the PCV website to add the downloadable bilingual brochures about palliative care in 17 community languages.
The brochures cover topics including;
- What is palliative care?
- Who provides palliative care?
- Where can I receive palliative care?
- Will I have to pay?
- What if I need to speak another language?
- What about my family?
- Where can I get more information?
Each language page now also has an audio file for each language that users can click to hear the brochure being read.
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In the News / Research
Honest communication paramount for patients dying expected deaths in hospital
Interview with Jeanette Lacey, end-of-life-care nurse practitioner , by Heather Wiseman, www.palliativecare.org.au
As an end-of-life nurse practitioner, what patients are you working with?
I work at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, NSW, supporting people who are expected to die during their hospital admission. Sometimes I only meet people three or four hours before they die. The longest time I’ve had with a patient is three weeks, but the average life expectancy of the people I meet is 48 hours.
Most people I see have end-stage chronic diseases, such as respiratory or cardiac disease......
Aged care providers central to community-led palliative care: expert 
Article By Darragh O'Keeffe, www.australianageingagenda.com.au
A grassroots campaign of care professionals and services is pushing to embed community-based palliative care in Australia to provide more inclusive end-of-life care – and they say aged care providers have a key role to play.
With Australia’s ageing population, increasing pressure on health and aged care budgets and mounting rates of social isolation in the community, they say a new approach to end-of-life care is needed ......
We Don’t Know Death: 7 Assumptions We Make about Dying
Blog by Lizzy Miles, www.pallimed.org
It is now five years since my student supervisor told me that I didn’t know everything. I have to admit he was right. The most important thing I’ve learned from my work in hospice is “knowing” can be dangerous for hospice staff. We take a situation that seems similar to one we have seen before and we can fall into the trap of assuming the outcome will be the same. Our patients and families take what they think they know from media or prior experience and apply expectations. The following lessons have been taught to me by many people I have worked with. The cases below highlight these assumptions and are composited from many experiences .......
One third of elderly patients receive futile treatment before they die 
By Heather Wiseman, www.palliativecare.org.au
Family members with unrealistic expectations sometimes pressure hospital doctors to provide futile treatment.
Worldwide, more than one-third of patients aged 60 or older receive invasive and potentially harmful hospital treatment during their last six months of life, according to a recent Australian review.
The interventions continued into the last two weeks of life, with admission to intensive care, chemotherapy, resuscitation and intensive cardiac monitoring potentially preventing patients from having a comfortable death, and prolonging suffering rather than survival .......
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