Somerset End of Life Care Education
Communication in End of Life Care
Run by Somerset End of Life Care Team
Duration – 6 hours
Open to – everyone
Credits - 6
Follow the end of life care experience of our case study patient, Juliette, to the end of her life. This course features content on communication skills, advance care planning, treatment escalation planning, palliative rehabilitation, spirituality, symptom management, dying and care after death.
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Difficult Conversations in End of Life Care
Run by Somerset End of Life Care Team
Duration – 6 hours
Open to – Nursing staff only
Credits - 6
Engage in a full day of developing your communication skills alongside medical actors. This is an interactive day where you will have the opportunity to explore techniques to help best support both patients and those around them struggling with anticipatory grief.
*new course dates coming soon*
Treatment Escalation Planning – Conversation Skills
Run by Somerset End of Life Care Education
Duration – 2 hours
Open to – Everyone
Credits - 2
This workshop discusses use of the TEP in more detail as well as suggestions for practice in how to have empathetic and honest conversations about treatment and resuscitation with patients and their families.
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Advance Care Planning
Run by Somerset End of Life Care Education
Duration – 2 hours
Open to – Everyone
Credits - 2
This workshop explores the importance of ACP, how to gather and embed use of the ACP in care and signposts towards useful services to enable completion.