End-of-Life Essentials launches new education platform
A blog post written by Associate Professor Kim Devery - reproduced with kind permission from End-of-Life Essentials.
End-of-Life Essentials (EOLE) provides free education to acute hospital staff across all states and territories in Australia, from metropolitan cities to rural and remote locations. There are approximately 250,000 health care professionals who work in hospitals around Australia, and approximately 27,000 are registered learners in the EOLE learning platform.
With a continued increase in learner registrations, EOLE needed to find a new learning platform which could meet the demand of expansion in learners from Australian public and private hospitals.
To future-proof the project, it also sought to:
- Support the sharing of education modules and resources with external stakeholders; primarily hospitals but also other grant-funded projects and not-for-profit educational providers in both metropolitan and rural and remote Australia.
- Maintain the quality, safety, and integrity of content for the EOLE project.
- Facilitate stakeholder data collection and reporting requirements.
A new learning platform will also need to meet the growing needs of EOLE at different levels, and for various stakeholder groups, for example:
- Individual learners - ensuring a learner-centric user experience.
- Individual hospitals/training provider organisations - providing aggregate data on learner registrations and module completions.
- Jurisdictions – we aim to trial access across different systems and generate de-identified aggregated data.
- Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care - ensuring efficiencies, ethical handling of data, and seamless quality and delivery of the project.
- End-of-Life Essentials Project - ensuring quality control (relevance and currency) of the education, resources, and website.
After a thorough call for expression of interest and design consultation, EOLE will move to a new education platform on 29 August 2022! The new platform will sit with Digital Learning and Design Unit at South Australia Health, who has a track record of delivering learning platform support and service to other like national projects at a national scale.
EOLE aims to continue to strongly grow and support hospital health professionals in their end-of-life care training. EOLE also targets managers and quality assurance clinicians in meeting the implementation of, and assessment to, the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
You can find out more via the End-of-Life Essentials Education Modules.
Associate Professor Kim Devery
Project Lead, End-of-Life Essentials, and Academic Lead, Palliative and Supportive Services
Flinders University, South Australia