Overview

This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and includes the following:

• Assessment
  • Including assessing the needs of a dying person and their family/carers and how to recognize the terminal phase of the person's illness.
• Management
  • How to appropriately administer general palliative care.
• Optional quiz to assess your learning from the course.
• A list of useful links and resources for further reading.

Goals

During this course you will learn to:

• Make an assessment that a person has entered the palliative phase of their illness.​
• Recognize the need to assess the person's physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs promptly and at regular intervals.​
• Relieve the person's symptoms and fears.​
• Assess the need for anticipatory prescribing of medications.​
• Enable the person to die in the place of their choosing whenever possible.​
• Involve the person, carers and family members in discussions about management changes.

Topics covered