EVENT OVERVIEW

An online monthly community of practice to support Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals who are non-medical prescribers working in palliative and end of life care.

Session 10 for 2021: 6 October 2021

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• Topics
• Who is it for
• Course tutors
• Outline

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  Non-Medical Prescribers – Community of Practice 2022 will begin in January and dates to be announced soon – please register your interest to stay in touch.

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• What will I learn?

  Topics are to be confirmed but will include:

  • Prescribing for pain management in palliative care
  • Prescribing for nausea and vomiting in palliative care
  • Prescribing for constipation in palliative care
  • Prescribing issues for patients with heart failure
  • Prescribing issues for patients with renal impairment
  • Prescribing for older adults and those with a frailty diagnosis.

• Who is it for?

  This annual subscription will be of interest to nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers working in palliative care.

• Course tutors

  Our tutors:

  

  Nigel Dodds Consultant Nurse, St Christopher's

  Nigel works with the community nursing team at St Christopher’s. His current role is around developing new roles and initiatives in the community nursing teams at St Christopher’s. He has almost 30 years of nursing experience in HIV/AIDS, community nursing, cancer nursing, and palliative care.

  Nigel’s palliative care experience has been gained across community and acute hospital settings in London. He originally worked at St Christopher’s in 1999, returned in 2008, and then again in 2016. He has also worked overseas in Botswana on an HIV/AIDS programme, and with the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund in Uganda and Tanzania. Nigel has an MSc in Medical Anthropology, and an MSc Research (Palliative Care).

  

  Jan Thirkettle Consultant Nurse, St Christopher's

  Jan has been working in palliative care since 2000. She joined the staff at St Christopher’s in 2010 and in July 2016 was appointed as a Consultant Nurse for the Single Point of Contact and Outpatient teams. Her role revolves around leading a multi-disciplinary team who assess all people referred for the services that St Christopher’s offers and those attending outpatient clinics. Jan has a MSC in Advanced Practice Palliative Care and is currently undertaking an Associate Director training programme at St Christopher’s.

  She has been a non-medical prescriber since 2012. Prior to coming to St Christopher’s she worked as a palliative care CNS in South East Kent and before starting her career in palliative care was the manager of a large care home.

• What will the course look like?

  This annual membership programme provides a monthly online community of practice supporting Nurses and Allied Health Care Professionals who are non-medical prescribers working in palliative and end of life care. The community provides members with a space for reflection, discussion and sharing of best practice.

  The ten monthly sessions, covering all the key end of life prescribing issues, include a 20-30 minute presentation led by a clinical expert, followed by two case study presentations from members of the community, and time for discussion and Q&A.

  Members of the community can access the presentations on our Online Learning Platform (OLP). The OLP will also be home to documents, reference materials and the case studies discussed in the sessions.