Accredited to the Hospice Association of South Africa
Accredited to the Hospice Association of South Africa
Education
Palliative care is an increasingly relevant topic in today's world and particularly South Africa. Increasingly,nurses, social workers and doctors are being trained in the field not only to facilitate easeful death and dying, but to help patients with life threatening illnesses to holistically experience the best quality of life possible with whatever life they have remaining. Even patients with AIDS who are on anti-retroviral drugs need good palliative care, as they still experience physical problems like pain, and have major psycho-social and emotional issues that can be addressed.
These are some of the courses we offer:
The Short course in Palliative Nursing Care (SCPN) is a day-release certificate course (every Thursday) over 8 months, commencing 11 February 2010. The course incorporates 4 modules, viz. Palliative care principles and ethics, Pain and Symptom management, Communication Skills and Pyscho-social, spiritual and cultural aspects. It is very relevant for Professional and staff nurses involved with counseling and support of HIV/AIDS and cancer patients at clinic level as well as hospital, hospice and home care.The fee is R6480 but one can apply for a grant from HPCA to the tune of R5480.
Please contact us urgently for more details.
Introductory Course in Palliative Care. This is a 5-day course for nurses at different levels, or for the interdisciplinary team, viz, prof and staff nurses, doctors, social workers, physiotherapists etc. It covers the same topics as the SCPN, but in a nutshell, and is introductory. We have not set any dates for this but are considering holding a course on Mondays and Tuesdays for 5 days after Easter, at our training centre at St Luke's Kenilworth. It may however, also be feasible, to run courses at your specific venue, if there are enough people interested: the dates and times would be negotiable. The fee would also be negotiable.
We also run an accredited 3-month level 3 Home based care courses to community/ home based care workers, which includes a palliative care module. This is held at our centre at Lentegeur ward and practical hours are included at various centres which we arrange. The fee is R1400 per student.
Carers who are trained already in Home Based Care but where palliative care was not incorporated can also do an Intro course in PC for ancillary workers - this could also be applied to Enrolled Nursing Auxilliary nurses.
Basic Hospice Course for Volunteers: this is a 12 session course for people who are interested in giving their time and skills in support of the work we do. Some people opt to do it merely for their own self growth.The next course commences 8 February. Please contact Dawn (021 707-5335) for more details.
We also offer workshops:
We can also arrange short workshops (day or half-day) on different related topics of your choice, viz. pain management, death and dying,practical sessions on the use of the syringe driver in palliative care and various spiritual care topics.
Please contact Margot or Olwyne if youare interested in any of the courses or workshops or have any queries.
Margot van der Wielen,Education and Training Manager and Olwyne Kriel, Education and Training Assistant
Centre for Palliative Learning
St Luke's Hospice
92 Harfield Rd
Private bag X4
Kenilworth 7745
Tel. 021 797-5335
Fax. 021 761-0130
margotv@stlukes.co.za; olwynek@stlukes.co.za
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