GP Education:
Palliative Care Tasmania have delivered GP training to over 200 General Practitioners and Practice Nurses in the last year. Learn from our experienced educators.
Palliative Care Tasmania offer free education sessions for GP’s and Practice Nurses to build on their existing knowledge and skills relating to palliative care, end of life care and advance care planning. It has been specifically designed to support GP’s and nurses working in general practice and primary care in Tasmania to implement a proactive, systematic, team-based approach to initiating advance care planning and palliative care into everyday practice and care provision for patients and their families.
The sessions include general, non-clinical information, resources, case studies and our education team encourage open discussions with participants to talk about real life experiences. We suggest undertaking all 3 education sessions to ensure your team have a thorough understanding of palliative care, the service provision in Tasmania and understand requirements surrounding the new Tasmanian Advance Care Directive and the Legislation that came into effect in November 2022.
The education program consists of 3 topics that are suitable for lunchbox sessions or clinical meetings. (Click to expand)
- Palliative care in Tasmania & the challenges
- General principles of palliative care in a GP environment
- Recognising changes/triggers for conversation
- Introduce Advance Care Planning
- Tools to guide you through symptom management and clinical decision making and your role
- Service delivery in Tasmania and referral process
- Information and resources
- Benefits of Advance Care Planning
- New Tasmanian Legislation and the New Advance Care Directive
- Creating the conversation
- Recognising triggers (trajectory and pathways)
- Information/resources and further training to support you in practice
- The PREPARED communication framework
- Facilitating discussions about social, emotional and spiritual concerns
- Providing patient centred care
Sessions are specifically tailored to the needs of the practice and can be adapted to meet the learning needs of your team
HOW TO BOOK
To book an education session or to talk about how Palliative Care Tasmania can support your Practice, call one of our education team today.
Booking sessions for the North and Northwest
Amanda Aitken 0448 970 833 amanda.aitken@pct.org.au
Booking sessions for South
Hannah Butler 0447 240 846 hannah.butler@pct.org.au