Course Overview

With the growing demand for palliative care, there is a need to train more health care professionals in palliative care in our formal health care education. This interdisciplinary course provides the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills to provide palliative care in the ILTC sector. The aim of this programme is to provide participants with foundational knowledge and skills to care for clients with life limiting illnesses. As well as explore multiple facets of palliative care and how to integrate the patient’s family’s role in caring for the patient. This training is mapped to Level 1 of Palliative Nursing Competencies framework from MOH CNO office 2022.

The General Basic Palliative Care Certification contains 4 modules:

• Introduction to Palliative Care Nursing (Basic)
• Psychosocial, Cultural, Spiritual and Ethical Issue in Palliative Care (Basic)
• Communication Issue in Palliative Care (Basic)
• Pain and Symptoms in Advanced Diseases (Basic)

• Participants who have successfully completed this module will be awarded Certificate of performance.
• Participants who have successfully completed all the 4 modules will be awarded Certificate of Accomplishment.

Course Objectives

At the end of this training, participants will be able to :

• Define what is communication
• Explain the COMFORT model
• Define what is support
• Define the last hours

Who should attend

• This course is suitable for Registered Nurse, Enrolled Nurse, Allied Health Professional, Psychosocial Staff, Senior Management, Support Care Staff.

Training Hours
8

Associate Prof. Edward Poon Wing Hong
Chief Nurse

PhD (Monash), MSc Palliative Care (King’s College, UK), BHSN (Sydney), Adv Dip Nsg Neuroscience (Singapore), Infection Control Cert (Hong Kong), POLST Certified, End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Trainer (USA/Singapore), SRN.

A/Prof Edward Poon graduated from University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Health Science Nursing in 1998 , obtained his Master of Science in Palliative Care at King’s College London in 2002 and PhD at Monash University at 2013.

He has since acquired a broad and recent nursing experiences with specialty practices and teaching in infection control, neuroscience, quality management, research and palliative care. With his expert’s knowledge in palliative care, he has contributed in research, community care outreached local and overseas, sitting at national advisory board and ethics board and volunteered teaching palliative care at Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

He has vested clinical experiences from both restructured hospital, community hospital, hospice and the community care. He has setup caregiver training center to support the caregivers, palliative care nurses chapter to set standards and support to the palliative care nurses. He is involved at national policy making such as the National Nursing Taskforce and the National Palliative Care Taskforce. Currently he is helping St Luke’s Eldercare in designing the new nursing home. He has a wide range of publications and books and with his achievements, he was awarded the Healthcare Humanity Award and the President Nurses Award on 2014.

Ms Katherin Yeo
Nurse Manager, St Luke’s ElderCare

Adv Dip Nsg Palliative Care, Certificate in Palliative Nursing, ACP Facilitator, COJTC TTT, RN

Katherin started her Palliative Care journey in 2004 when she joined HCA Hospice Care as a Home Hospice Nurse. She went on to pioneer the project on palliative homecare in parkway health in 2008. In 2009, she started her own private nursing services. In 2011, she moved on to run the community hospital as a Nurse Manager and was later promoted to Senior Nurse Manager in 2016. In 2017, she went on to take her Advanced Diploma in Palliative Care.

In late 2019, she joined SLEC as a Nurse Manager and is helping to lead the palliative care services in community care focusing on nursing home, senior care centre and home care.

The full course is $283.40 (including prevailing GST). Prevailing course fee subsidy at 90% for Singapore Citizens/Permanent Residents and 45% for work pass holders working in eligible community care organisations.

Available date(s):
a. 24 January 2024
b. 13 March 2024
c. 8 April 2024
d. 12 August 2024
e. 18 November 2024

Time:
9 am to 6 pm

Venue:
Eagles Center
166 Bukit Merah Central
#04-3531
Singapore 150166

* The training venue may change due to unforeseen circumstances and the trainees will be informed accordingly.

For AIC Community Care Organisations, please register via AIC LMS at

AIC Learning Network

For additional information, please contact Learning Hub at  commcareacademy@slec.org.sg