Link Nurses
The establishment of link nurse groups has proved an important element in improving palliative care services within the Rural Palliative Care Program. Setting up a group, the role of the facilitator and some of the activities that have been undertaken are examined here using both the literature available and practical experience.
Division of General Practice link nurse sequential education program
- Introduction
- Philosophy & meaning of palliative care
- Ethical legal fram principles
- Respiratory disease
- Nutrition & hydration
- Nausea & vomiting
- Bowel care & management
- Drugs used in palliative care
- The dying experience
- Care of a dying patient
- Pain assessment & management for the elderly
- Delivering a palliative approach in aged care
- Dementia
- Communication challenges
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