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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
- Facebook Page
- Subcutaneous drug infusion compatibility guideline
- Education and events
- Advance Care Planning Seminar for Medical, Nursing and other Health Professionals
- Palliative approach for aged care, community care, and disability support workers
- A Palliative Approach to Advanced Dementia
- Gippsland Paediatric Palliative Care Workshop
- Resources and information
- New online learning for health professionals and care workers
- End of Life Essentials
- Palliative Care Online Training
- Your Health Matters
- In the news/ research
- Grieve Project
- Still a life worth living
- Research to help give vulnerable people a voice about death
- Death can strengthen and sustain love and connection: Dr John Endacott
- National Awareness Weeks
- National Volunteer Week
- National Palliative Care Week
- NAIDOC Week
- Dementia Awareness Month
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GRPCC
GRPCC Facebook Page
The GRPCC is very excited about the launch of our Facebook page. This page will be a useful way for us to to share education opportunities, interesting articles and anything exciting happening in the world of Palliative Care. Click on the icon below to visit our page where you can follow or like us, to keep up to date with the happenings at the GRPCC.
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Subcutaneous drug infusion compatibility guideline
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 the subcutaneous drug infusion compatibility guideline
To view the Subcutaneous drug infusion compatibility guideline and other CPG endorsed Guidelines click on the buttons below.
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Education and Events
Advance Care Planning Seminar for Medical,  Nursing and other Health Professionals
The Latrobe Regional Hospital and the Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium in partnership with the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer are conducting education sessions in Advance Care Planning (ACP) for medical, nursing and other health professionals in the Gippsland region
Date Thursday 4th May 2017
Venue Latrobe Regional Hospital, Auditorium, Traralgon
Time 5.30pm
Cost Free (finger food and light refreshment will be served)
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Palliative approach for aged care, community care, and disability support workers 
PEPA aims to improve health care, aged care and disability support workers’ knowledge, skills and confidence in the palliative approach to care for people with a life-limiting illness.
- Topics covered include:
- What is the palliative approach?
- 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 18th May
Venue Bairnsdale Sporting and Convention Centre
Time 9.30am– 3.30pm (registrations open at 9.00am)
Cost Free (morning tea and lunch will be provided)
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A Palliative Approach to Advanced Dementia
For personal care and community care workers
This workshop will focus on exploring the care needs of people in the advanced stages of dementia. It will assist care workers by increasing their understanding of a palliative approach to clinical issues such as pain, hygiene, dietary intake and communication challenges. A person centred approach will be used to explore physical, spiritual, psychological and emotional care needs, as well as care for family, colleagues and self in the palliative care environment
Sale
Date Thursday 25th May
Venue Conference Room, Community Services Building, Central Gippsland Health Service, Palmerston St, Sale
Time 9.30am– 3.30pm (registrations open at 9.00am)
Cost Free (morning tea and lunch will be provided)
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Warragul
Date Tuesday 6th June
Venue Pettit Centre, West Gippsland Community Services, Gladstone Street, Warragul
Time 9.30am– 3.30pm (registrations open at 9.00am)
Cost Free (morning tea and lunch will be provided)
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Leongatha - Still to be confirmed
Date Thursday 1st June
Venue TBA
Time 9.30am– 3.30pm (registrations open at 9.00am)
Cost Free (morning tea and lunch will be provided)
Details for the Leongatha workshop are yet to be finialised but a flyer and registration details will be made available on our Facebook page here and the education page on our website here, once available.
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Gippsland Paediatric Palliative Care Workshop
Doctors, nurses and allied health staff are invited to participate in a Paediatric Palliative Care workshop covering topics including;
- What is Paediatric Palliative Care?
- Symptom management
- Ethics
- Communication
- Psychosocial and Bereavement support
Date Friday 22nd May
Venue Latrobe Regional Hospital, Auditorium, Traralgon
Time 9.30 – 3.00 (registrations open at 9am)
Cost Free (light lunch provided)
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Resources
New online learning for health professionals and care workers 
Advance Care Planning Australia (ACPA) and Decision Assist have a brand new integrated online learning space where you can find up-to-date resources and training tools to support best practice in advance care planning.
Three new learning modules are now live on the site, covering:
- the key components of advance care planning and its benefits
- communication strategies to start conversations about advance care planning
- legal aspects for different states and territories.
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End of Life Essentials
Education of Acute Hospitals
Care Search has created education modules designed to assist clinical staff working in acute hospitals in delivering end-of-life care. They provide clinically relevant and evidence based learning materials with quizzes, evidence based links and educational videos. Clinicians are encouraged to examine their own practice and build on their individual expertise across a wide range of issues which are fundamental to quality end-of-life care in hospitals.
Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals will find specific resources and learning opportunities within each module for their own professional perspective.
They are free to use. They can be accessed on the web from anywhere in Australia.
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Palliative Care Online Training 
This free online training is designed for the Australian health context, helping health professionals and others providing palliative care to aged persons in the community to improve the quality of their practice.
This project is funded by the Department of Health and is developed jointly between AHHA and Silver Chain Training, with input from industry and other specialists.
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Your Health Matters
Nurse and midwife support (MN Support)
Health support for nurses and midwives is only a phone call or click away, thanks to a new national service. NM Support is the first national dedicated telephone and online service that provides confidential advise and referral to nurses and midwives about their health and wellbeing.
To access NM Support of for further information call 1800 667 877 or visit their website www.nmsupport.org.au
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In the News / Research
Grieve Project
The 2017 Grieve Writing Competition is now open.
Write a 500 word story or a poem up to 36 lines on the topic 'You know the measure of your love by the weight of its loss'
Over $7000 worth of prizes to be won and 150+ works published in the anthology
Submissions close 8pm, 9th June 2017
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Still a life worth living 
Kate Jackson, WHPCA www.ehospice.com/uk
“Life has a terminal prognosis,” writes Lucy Watts, MBE, in her latest blog post. This is an inescapable fact, and yet one that we humans find difficult to face. For some, the option of choosing whether or not to face our own mortality is a luxury we don’t have ......
Research to help give vulnerable people a voice about death
www.agedcareguide.com.au
A new research project into finding ways to give vulnerable people in our community a voice when it comes to the preparation for their death is underway thanks to a grant worth more than $379,000 from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) ......
Death can strengthen and sustain love and connection: Dr John Endacott
Heather Wiseman hwww.palliativecare.org.au
John Endacott believes no-one should die alone, particularly in an institution.
There is a tragic experience that Dr John Endacott and his father both lived through as young children, a generation apart: the death of a parent. Dr Endacott, now a geriatrician, is a firm believer in death offering great opportunities for meaningful connection – which should be celebrated ......
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