If you are looking to advance your career in the health and community care sector, this online palliative care course is an excellent choice to broaden your knowledge base.
The Certificate of Palliative Care is an online professional development program that will provide you with the awareness, knowledge, skills and values required to care for clients with a life-limiting illness and/or normal ageing process within a palliative care context.
In this online palliative care course, you will be enabled to contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and communication of a care plan for clients using a palliative care approach. This program is ideal for those working in any healthcare setting who may be involved in the provision of palliative care to adult clients and their families.
On completion of this course, you will feel confident to work in a palliative care role in a range of settings, including hospice, home care, residential aged care facilities, and hospitals.
Course Structure
Unit 1 - Deliver care services using a palliative approach
- Recognise the holistic needs of person over time
- Principles of holistic palliative care
- Holistic, multidimensional approach
- Interdisciplinary teamwork
- Benefits of palliative care
- Scope of palliative care over time
- Supporting and respecting the person, family and carers
- Understanding needs and preferences
- Emotional impact of diagnosis
- Shock and denial
- Creating a supportive environment for expression of needs and preferences
- Reporting to supervisors
- Communicating about quality of life
- PREPARED model
- Communicate person’s quality of life, pain and comfort to supervisor
- Talking about pain and comfort
- Involving family and carers
- Reporting information about quality of life, pain and comfort
- Understanding and adjusting communication techniques
- Practical support needs
- Changing needs and preferences
- Respecting the person as an individual
- Person-centred care
- Cultural, religious and spiritual differences
- Inclusive decision making
- Empathic communication
- Advance Care Directives (ACDs) – individualised plans
- Organisational legal and ethical requirements related to ACDs
- Documenting end-of-life decisions
- Legal compliance with end-of-life decisions
- Reporting changes, needs and issues
- Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD)
- Observing needs of family, carers and others identified
- Policies and procedures for referral
- Supporting end of life location
- Recognising signs and symptoms of pain
- Pain management plan
- Guidance from health professionals
- Promoting comfort
- Working within role boundaries
- Monitoring pain management strategies
- Concerns related to the use of pain-relieving medication
- Regular review and changes to individualised plan
- Culturally inclusive palliative care
- Following the individualised plan
- End-of-life
- Maintain dignity
- Legal and organisational requirements in after-death care
- Culturally safe and respectful care
- After death documentation
- State/territory medico-legal requirements
- Understanding signs and deterioration and the dying process
- Stages of grief
- Managing your own emotional responses
- Recognising own emotional responses
- Raising ethical issues or concerns
- Understanding the impact of grief on self
- Self-care strategies for workers
- Bereavement care and peer support
Unit 2- Plan for and provide care services using a palliative approach
- Approach to palliative client care
- Curative and palliative differences
- Palliative Care Australia (PCA)
- Curative care
- Palliative approach
- Care plans
- Transitions
- Holistic approaches
- Hospice team care
- Principles and aims of care plans
- Quality of life choices
- Developing the plan
- Client needs – consultation
- Changes to plans
- Spiritual and holistic needs
- Diversity
- Dignity and social context
- Differences and stereotyping
- Interpreter services
- Privacy
- Indigenous Australians
- Client freedom
- Client and carer roles
- Address client issues
- Provide emotional support
- Legal and ethical implications
- Ethics
- Privacy
- Documentation
- Code of ethics
- Legislation
- Communication
- Advanced care directives
- Documentation
- Legal and ethical implications
- Will preparation
- Code of ethics
- Legislation
- End-of-life decisions
- Legal requirements
- Do not resuscitate
- Dignity
- Location
- Carer stress
- Supporting carers
- Supporting end-of-life decisions
- Legal requirements
- Suicide / euthanasia
- Supporting care workers
- End-of-life strategies
- Cultural and spiritual wishes
- Respecting dignity
- Pain and discomfort
- End of life
- Imminent death / deterioration
- Family carer support
- Changes on the care plan
- Client / family emotional needs
- Alleviate pain
- Promote comfort in care plan
- Pain relief
- Tolerance, dependence and addiction
- Fatigue
- Monitor and evaluate
- Pain assessment
- Incident pain
- Policies procedures and legislation
- Effectiveness of pain relief
Study Hours
Estimated duration 30 Hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% Online
Assessment
Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.
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Pauline | Taree, NSW | Certificate of Palliative Care
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M. Pinder, Cranbourne East, VIC | Certificate of Palliative Care
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S. Onyekwere, NSW | Certificate of Palliative Care
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Graduation
A Certificate of Attainment and Statement of Results will be issued upon successful completion of this course.
How to Enrol
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Enrol via Telephone 1300 76 2221 (Business Hours)
Payment Options
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Course FAQs
Why Choose Australian Online Courses?
- Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
- Improve your employment opportunities;
- Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
- High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
- All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
- Unlimited tutor support via email;
- We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
- Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.
Are there any entry requirements or pre-requisites?
There are no course or subject pre-requisites for entry into our programs. However, our professional development programs are generally intended for people over the age of 18. In some circumstances, enrolments from younger people may be considered. Please complete the AOC Parent Guardian Consent Form prior to enrolling and submit here.
Are there any computer requirements?
To study online with Australian Online Courses you will need a computer (desktop PC/laptop) running a current/updated operating system with reliable high-speed internet access. You will need to use the Google Chrome browser to access your course.
When can I start this course?
You can start within 60 minutes during business hours when you enrol and pay in full with a credit card!
Credit card: Within 60 mins during business hours.
BPAY: Within 1-2 working days.
Internet Banking: Within 1-2 working days.
Cheque/Money Order: Upon receipt of mailed cheque.
How is this course delivered?
This course is delivered online via our easy-to-navigate Learning Management System (LMS), where you will discover interactive online learning/written content, resources and assessment.
Do I need to attend classes or undertake any work placements?
No. All courses are delivered online via our LMS and there are no work placement requirements in this course.
What support can I expect from Australian Online Courses?
Unlimited tutor support is available throughout your studies via email only during business hours Monday to Friday. Our Administrative team are available Monday to Friday via email, live chat and telephone.
I am an international student. Can I enrol into this course?
Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.
Career Pathways
Future growth
Strong
Unemployment
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