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- Enhance your skills in providing end-of-life care and information to your patients.
Description
Summary
GPs play a significant role in facilitating end-of-life care for their patients.
The End of Life Care course give GPs the confidence to care for patients with a terminal illness and provides GPs with a framework for patient ‘shared care’ with specialist palliative care services.
Learn about the decision-making process, Advance Care Directives and the Resuscitation 7 Step Pathway, so that you have the confidence and knowledge to assist and inform patients about end-of-life care.
This course is three hours in duration and accredited as a 6-point CPD Activity under the RACGP CPD Program in the 2020-22 triennium.
Program content
Learning outcomesThis course will help you achieve the following learning outcomes:
- Confidently provide end of life information to patients.
- Review an Advance Care Directives and Resuscitation Plan 7 Step Pathway for end of life to enhance the safety and quality of patient care.
- Describe key components in the hierarchy of decision-making for end-of-life care.
- Your obligations and the law
- Converting patient wishes to clinical instructions
- Ensuring everything goes to plan
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