Foundation Course in Palliative Care
Training Program in association with CanSupport
Enroll for our Palliative Care Workshop and get equipped with knowledge on the basics of palliative care
An exclusive 2-day Palliative Care Workshop by Tech Mahindra SMART Academies for Healthcare for medical practitioners, social workers and psychologists
Learn key skills like Communication, Pain and Symptom Management, Managing End-of-life Care, and ethics of Palliative Care etc. from experts
Admissions Open. Register now for the Palliative Care Workshop and make a difference in a patient’s life!
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Next course starts on 1st December 2021
Who is it for?
This Workshop on Palliative Care Foundation course is ideal for medical practitioners/professionals like doctors, general medical practitioners, nurses and psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists, counsellors, etc., to get familiar with the concept and significance of palliative care for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
How does it help?
Why should you join us?
Suitable Communication Skills
& Knowledge
Trainees will learn better communication skills in handling situations like breaking bad news to the patients and their families. They will be acquiring knowledge of care in the last days of life as well as pain & symptom management in life-limiting illnesses
Expert Faculty &
Institution
Learn from highly qualified palliative care professionals and industry experts. You will get to train under CanSupport- a multi-disciplinary professional palliative care organization and has been organizing these workshops on Palliative Care (since 2001) in collaboration with the Institute-Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS.
Certification & CME/CNE
Credit Hours
Every participant will be receiving a certificate of participation and will be awarded - Continuing Nursing Education (CNE)/Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit hours
Palliative Care Workshop Objective
This course intends to equip trainees with knowledge and skills to improve pain and symptom control of patients under their care at home, hospital or hospice. It helps in improving their communication skills and handling difficult issues, such as breaking bad news and coping with loss and grief. In addition to that, this course will demonstrate to them the need and viability of a multidisciplinary team approach in providing palliative care to patients
Palliative Care Workshop Curriculum
The curriculum of Palliative Care Workshop covers the following modules:
- Principles of Palliative Care
- Ethics in Palliative Care
- Role of Multidisciplinary Team in Palliative Care
- Pain Management and Symptom Control
- Nursing needs and care in the terminally ill
- Wound Management
- Pediatric and Geriatric Palliative Care
- Communication Skills
- Breaking Bad News
- Loss, Grief and Bereavement
- Final Days and Last Hours of Living
- Working with Families-Care Giver Respite
- Emotional and spiritual needs
- Professional Self-Care
Additional Key Palliative Care Skills
- Communication skills including breaking bad news
- Pain and symptom management
- Managing End-of-life care
- Nursing care in advanced illness
- Psychosocial assessment and management in advanced illness
Job Roles/Career Prospects
- After completion of this workshop on Palliative Care, the trainees will acquire additional competence and confidence to help their patients in specific vocations of medical as well as palliative care.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Eligibility | Graduation in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, Social Work |
Minimum Age | 20 Years |
Duration | 2 days/10-12hrs |
Mode of course | Online |
Location | AIIMS, Healthcare Institutions across Delhi, UP, Haryana & Punjab (due to the COVID-19 pandemic training is conducted online) |
About MOHAN Foundation
MOHAN Foundation is a registered non-governmental organisation that has been working to promote deceased organ donation in India since 1997. For the past 24 years, it has worked to build a positive image for organ donation among the public, set up SOPs in hospitals and assisted State Governments with donor and transplant registries as well as guidelines and government orders for an ethical deceased organ donation and transplantation programme in the country.
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