Handbook

Principles of palliative care - Australian Palliative Care Standards, Cultural context of dying and the dying process, active dying, dying trajectory, recognising the dying process 

Advanced care planning -  communication and decision making in palliative care, Patient, family, and interprofessional team, informed decision making - nurses ethical and legal obligations, promoting wellbeing, 

Communicating prognosis and end of life issues (PREPARED), What are the person’s wishes, verbal and written wishes, advanced healthcare directive, DNR, organ donation

Where do people die? (home, hospice, acute care setting)

Underserved groups – barriers enablers and implications for advanced care planning: people who are culturally and linguistically diverse, people who are living with a disability, people who are homeless, people who are incarcerated, people who are gender diverse, children

Cancers and oncology, frailty and progressive respiratory and cardiovascular disorders

Assessment of Physical, psychological, cultural, social, and spiritual needs, patient and family, difficult conversations/topics, voluntary assisted dying

Management of a variety of symptoms including: pain – pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures, nausea and vomiting, dyspnoea and other altered breathing patterns/respiratory symptoms, constipation, terminal restlessness, anxiety (patient and family), terminal delirium (hypo, hyper or mixed), alterations in level of consciousness, diminished gag reflex, secretions - suctioning, oral and nasal hygiene, repositioning

Care giver support and bereavement - Family, healthcare staff and patient

Last rights and care of the body

Survivors teaching students