Symptom Management "It's not being Dead but the Dying I fear"

Start Date: TBD
Instructor: Kath Murray

Duration: 3 weeks

Description

Enhance your capacity to provide care for the dying with this course on symptom management. All caregivers, professional and family, can benefit by understanding the “essentials” of symptom assessment, management and comfort measures. Knowing what to expect and how to provide comfort for the dying can empower caregivers with ways to provide the best in hospice palliative care.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify common symptoms experienced by the dying.
• Identify standardized assessment tools used in hospice palliative care.
• Recognize the CHPCA Square of Care and Process of Providing Care and identify three components that resonate with your practice.
• Follow the Palliative Performance Rating Scale
• Summarize ten common principles of symptom management through the use of medications.
• Explain common myths and fears of using opioids, and identify three things you can do in your practice when patients/families express concern about the use of opioids.
• Identify the sensation of dyspnea from their own experience and identify comfort measures that will help support the individual struggling to breathe.
• Collect a list of items for a "Comfort Basket," that you can use to provide comfort care.
• Summarize five strategies from this course to use in your practice.

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