National Palliative Approach - Palliative Approach Toolkit - Essentials for Personal Support Workers - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 6076344490 ISBN 13: 9786076344491

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

Module 1: Integrating a palliative approach
Module 1 focuses on policies, systems and resources to support a palliative approach in a residential aged care setting.


Module 2: Key processes
Module 2 focuses on three key processes essential in implementing a palliative approach:
• Advance care planning
• Palliative care case conferences
• End of life care pathway

A palliative approach aims to improve the quality-of-life for individuals with a life-limiting illness and their families by reducing their suffering through early identification, assessment and treatment of pain, physical, cultural, psychological, social and spiritual needs.

A palliative approach offers many benefits to residents, their families and the residential aged care facility (RACF) team including:
• reducing potential distress to residents and their families caused by a transfer to an acute care setting
• reducing the admission and/or transfer of residents to acute care facilities as RACF staff develop the skills to manage the palliative care of residents
• increasing the involvement of the resident and their family in decision making about their care
• encouraging open and early discussion on death and dying
• facilitating advance care planning
• providing opportunities, especially for improved control of pain and other symptoms, in a setting that is familiar to the resident
• offering the resident and family consistent and continuous care by staff with whom they have developed a rapport and positive therapeutic relationship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6076344490
• ISBN 13: 9786076344491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64