Page 2027 - Week 06 - Thursday, 9 June 2022
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• END of life standards,
• Orientation to advanced care planning/goals of care documentation,
• Caring at the end-of-life pathway,
• Syringe driver specifics,
• Online resources,
• Communication tools.
Ongoing education programs at CHH are multidisciplinary and staff receive access to:
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaborative (PCOC) online,
• Monthly Palliative Education (PED) talks with topics aligned to specific clinical learnings,
• Basic Life Support Practicals,
• Manual Handling Practicals,
• Emergency/Fire Training Practicals,
• Weekly clinical education sessions,
• Twice monthly in service options with a ward focus (available across the service),
• End of Life Essentials modules,
• Workbooks from PEPA learning guides,
• Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U), or
• In house workbooks focussed on specific nursing skills.
The CHH staff scholarship Education Fund is in place to support staff to attend and present at Palliative Care specific education including foundation Palliative Care and Bereavement courses. From 2017 to 2021, 18 staff accessed scholarship funding at a cost of $19,321.70.
(6) CHH is run by Calvary Public Hospital Bruce (CPHB) and is fully accredited under the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. The NSQHS Accreditation team review the training provided to all staff and the standard was fully met by CHH.
The last accreditation report noted that - ‘Governance, multidisciplinary patient care, education and training and the physical environment and service provided in support of end-of-life care at CHH is outstanding’.
CHH nurses have access to postgraduate and professional development scholarship programs through the ACT Chief Nurse and Midwifery Office (CNMO), which are available to all public sector nurses and midwives who meet the criteria. CHH nurses have also been offered access to the ACT CNMO Clinical Supervision Program. CHH provides staff a range of training see full list above at Question (5). Staff numbers at Question 3.
This education is across several platforms including Face to face, E-learning, and WebEx.
Training providers include:
• Calvary National
• Program of Experience in a Palliative Approach (PEPA) workshops for mixed disciplines. Eighty (80) per cent of nursing and allied health staff would have attended a workshop in the past three years.
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