What's New in the Project?
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We're excited to announce our new filming in end-of-life care and:
- Occupational Therapy and Discharge Planning
- The Emergency Department
- Avoiding the Medical Emergency Team
- Speech Pathology Swallowing Assessment.
We're looking forward to sharing our new work in our modules soon! |
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Module highlight: Paediatric end-of-life care
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We instinctively hold the idea that there is a natural order to life and death, and that older people should die before younger people. When a child dies, it defies instinct. A big step in providing quality paediatric care is to understand your own attitude to the expected death of a child.
Our Paediatric End-of-Life Care education helps you understand your own attitude, and guides you to tap into your own compassion, and refine and strengthen your communication. |
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Sector News
- The inaugural World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day will be held on 20 October to raise awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision-making in order to improve health outcomes globally. Celebrate the impact of individuals and organisations worldwide, and recognise the work of researchers, policymakers and health professionals in improving health outcomes.
- Talking about death doesn't have to be difficult. Let's Talk about Death over Zoom is being run by Calvary Health Care Bethlehem on 10 October 2020, 10.30 - 12 noon AEST
- For the attention of discharge planners and medical offers who often have to think about the medications of their patients at home, the caring@home national palliative care project has launched an updated palliative care medicine app which includes an opioid calculator.
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Latest Evidence
- This paper explores the 'Serious Illness Conversation Guide - Peds' through the lens of a case study. Using the guide can help illuminate the parents’ (child’s) understanding of illness and the values they hold, promoting goal-based, efficient, comprehensive and consistent communication between families and clinicians, and help ensure that seriously ill children receive care that is tailored to their needs through the disease trajectory.
van Breemen, C., Johnston, J., Carwana, M. and Louie, P., 2020. Serious Illness Conversations in Pediatrics: A Case Review. Children, 7(8), p.102.
- While much emphasis on paediatric palliative care has been on supportive treatment and symptom management, when faced with a lack of sound understanding of a rare illness, the mode of care can often be reactive and based on critical needs. By developing greater knowledge of symptoms and illness trajectory, both management and care can be more responsive and anticipatory, thereby helping ease illness burden and suffering
Bao D, Feichtinger L, Andrews G, Pawliuk C, Steele R, Siden HH. Charting the Territory: End-of-Life Trajectories for Children with Complex Neurological, Metabolic and Chromosomal Conditions. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Sep 8:S0885-3924(20)30719-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.033. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32916263.
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For your Notice Board
Each month we feature a fact sheet or poster to print. Click on the image below to print, or our promotional resources can be downloaded anytime.
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Next Newsletter
November 2020
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