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A two-hour introduction to assessing palliative care needs and how these require careful holistic consideration.
This particular workshop will be suitable for nurses and nursing associates, allied health professionals, care home managers, doctors, GPs, health and social care support workers and HCAs.
Tutor
Sergio is a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care with several years of experience in surgical and medical oncology, haematology , intensive care, pain management, nursing management, tissue viability and stoma care.
After starting his palliative care career at St Joseph’s Hospice, Sergio has joined STCH in 2017 and has been offering his specialist palliative care expertise between the inpatient unit and the community.
One of his biggest career achievements was joining CARE as a visiting lecturer, supporting other colleagues to advance their own practice through education, focusing on developing KNOWHOW – our state of the art skills lab.
He is always available to help others, truly lives the hospice values / mission statement and considers himself as approachable, knowledgeable enough and compassionate.
His educational and research interests are around total pain, spiritual suffering, advanced nursing practice and informal carers training.
This workshop will focus on holistic assessment and practical skills to use when undertaking a comprehensive assessment in palliative care.
It will be delivered through theoretical presentation, discussion of case studies, Q&A, group work and presentation.
If you have any questions about this or any of our other courses, please contact the Education team who will be happy to help
At St Christopher's, a registered charity, it is important for us to maximise any surpluses to reinvest in the objectives of the charity.
Unfortunately, the manner in which we undertake our training currently means we are not able to invest as much of our surplus as possible, therefore from the 1 December 2017, St Christopher’s Education Centre will charge VAT at the standard rate on our training courses, the reason for this change in pricing is twofold:
i) We want to be able to reinvest any surpluses made from training back into all of our charitable objectives rather than only Education
ii) We want to be able to reclaim the VAT on costs relating to developing and running the training courses