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Community of Practice member
Topics are to be confirmed but will include:
This annual subscription will be of interest to nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers working in palliative care.
Our tutors:
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 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.
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.
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