PCC4U: Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (Learners)

Content

PCC4U promotes the inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing, and allied health undergraduate and entry to practice training, and ongoing post-graduate professional development. Available as a learning package for integration into formal course structures or as independent online learning modules.

Core modules

• Module 1: Principles of palliative care
• Module 2: Communicating with people with life-limiting illnesses
• Module 3: Palliative assessment & intervention
• Module 4: Optimising function in palliative care

Focus topics

• Topic 1: Multidisciplinary care
• Topic 2: Caring for Aboriginal people with life-limiting conditions
• Topic 3: Caring for children with life-limiting conditions
• Topic 4: Culture-centred care of people with life-limiting conditions

Ongoing professional development

Core modules (as above)

EN Toolkit

A suite of eLearning Modules and resources which aims to develop capacity in the Enrolled Nurse workforce.

Focus topics

• Topic 1: Principles of palliative care
• Topic 2: Communicating with people with life-limiting conditions
• Topic 3: Principles of symptom assessment and management
• Topic 4: Assessment and management of pain
• Topic 5: Optimising function in palliative care
• Topic 6: Terminal care and bereavement support

Careworker Toolkit
A suite of eLearning modules and resources which aims to develop capacity in the careworker workforce.

Focus topics

• Topic 1: The Principles and aims of a palliative care approach
• Topic 2: Supporting care
• Topic 3: Providing care
• Topic 4: End of life care strategies
• Topic 5: Managing your own emotional responses

Cultural safety tool kit
The toolkit supports holistic and culturally responsive care. It has been designed to educate health professionals about the important role they play in breaking down the access barriers to mainstream healthcare, experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This toolkit has three modules:

• Part 1: About me and my workplace
• Part 2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
• Part 3: Providing care through engagement and partnerships

Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professionals
Supporting our health workforce to walk alongside people living with life-limiting illness and at the end of life

This toolkit has five modules:

• Understanding palliative care
• Yarning about palliative care
• Symptom management in palliative care
• Loss, grief and healing
• Looking after yourself

Depth

Varies according to intended audience

Target audience

Varies according to course.

Qualified and undergraduate health professionals wanting to expand their knowledge and skill set will find the self-directed online learning of interest and can choose the most appropriate course from the PCC4U website.

The Care Worker Toolkit is a suite of resources that have been designed to support learning in relevant Certificate III and IV healthcare training packages. It is intended for delivery by educators and is aligned to the unit of competency CHCPAL001 Deliver care services using a palliative approach (Release 2).

The EN toolkit is aligned and mapped to the unit of competency HLTENN010 Apply a Palliative Approach in Nursing Practice.

Time to complete

Depends on course and user

Authors

Professor Patsy Yates, Kylie Ash and the PCC4U team at Queensland University of Technology

Comments

The four core principles of the PCC4U project underpin all courses.
Educator resources are available for many of these learning options. Click here for information about PCC4U resources for educators.

Registration required

Undergraduate and postgraduate learning modules do not require registration.

Registration is required for the EN, Careworker, Cultural Safety toolkits and the Palliative Care Toolkit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Professionals.

Payment required

No

Student support

Yes

Certificate

Yes, a participation certificate is available for some, although EN and Careworker modules are designed for integration into certificate courses through which this would be obtained.

Country of origin

Australia

Web Address

https://pcc4u.org.au/learning/

For further information

Kylie Ash
PCC4U National Project Manager
Queensland University of Technology
t: 07 3138 6128
e: k.ash@qut.edu.au