This website provides free online learning opportunities and practice resources for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to improve the quality and safety of end-of-life care in hospitals.
Education
AHHA: Online training in Palliative Care for Aged Care
An online training program developed to help aged and community care workers, carers, volunteers, family members and health professionals who provide palliative care to aged persons in the community.
End of Life Law in Australia provides accurate and practical information to assist you to navigate the challenging legal issues that can arise with the end of life decision-making.
End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)
ELDAC provides information, guidance, and resources to health professionals and aged care workers to support palliative care and advance care planning to improve the care of older Australians.
Planning
Advance Care Planning Australia
Advance Care Planning Australia is a national program that provides information and resources to individuals, care workers and healthcare professionals to improve this cooperation.
Learning: Advance Care Planning Australia
Advance Care Planning Australia provides online courses and face-to-face workshops nationally, specifically designed to support aged care workers, health professionals and the general public learn more about advance care planning.
Dying to Talk aims to reach into the community to normalise early conversations about the end of life, rather than waiting until more time critical or medical focused discussions need to occur. The resources have been developed to help Australians work out what’s right for them if they were very sick or at the end of their lives.
Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner South Australia (HCSCC)
For complaints about provision of palliative care or regarding non-compliance with ACDs.
General
CareSearch is an online resource designed to help those needing relevant and trustworthy information and resources about palliative care. Health professionals can find clinical summaries and tools to help retrieve evidence, and information on palliative care research processes and projects. There are specific knowledge resources for nurses, GPs and allied health, as well as resources dealing with residentail aged care and Aboriginal anfd Torres Strait Islander care.
Resources:
Palliative Care Nurses Association (PCNA)
Palliative Care Nurses Australia (PCNA) is a member organisation for Australian nurses who are passionate about excellence in palliative care. They provide a unified voice for nurses who deliver, or have an enduring interest in, palliative care policy, practice, research and education.
A standardised process for the development and implementation of a clinical care plan which documents treatment decisions relating to a patient’s resuscitation and end-of-life care.
PaCE – the Palliative Care Education Directory app
PaCE is a resource directory for educators and health and aged care providers in the form of a mobile-responsive web-based app. PaCE helps you find learning and teaching resources that support the development of specific palliative care capabilities for a variety of professions and practice contexts. The directory includes information about particular learning approaches and modes of delivery for each resource. The app is free to use, and all learning resources are free to access.
Aboriginal health care
Australian Indigenous Health Network (Palliative Care)
Information about publications, policies, programs, resources and organisations which are relevant to the end of life care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes information on culturally appropriate palliative care, as well as cultural perspectives on dying, death, grief and sorry business in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Providing Culturally Appropriate Palliative Care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
This resource has been developed to support the implementation of Practice Principles and training for the provision of palliative care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Culturally Appropriate Palliative Care
This educational video resource from the Cancer Council WA, is made for health professionals working with Aboriginal people especially those originating from the West Kimberley region and was developed in collaboration with the Yiriman Project.
Become a Member
To become a member of PCSA call 08 8271 1643 or click the link below
