EMPOWER: Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department

Topics:

• The scope of palliative care in the Emergency Department
• Pain and symptom management
• Care of the dying
• Serious illness communications

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, learners will be able to:

1. Explain the importance of integrating palliative care principles in emergency department settings.
2. Apply principles of pain and symptom management for patients requiring palliative care.
3. Identify the patient at end-of-life and provide appropriate care for the dying in the emergency department context.
4. Develop basic communication skills for sensitive conversations with critically-ill patients and their families

Learners will access materials such as videos, animated presentations, readings, assessments on the Learning Management System (LMS) at own pace and time.

Estimated time required is 5 hours. Learners have access to the materials for a month upon successful registration. The online self-paced learning is supplemented by an online forum that will address any questions and comments at the end of the course.

Registration

Please register on the Duke Catalogue here.

Course Fee: SGD 80.00 before GST

Course Duration: Learners will be given 1 month (from date of purchase) to access the course materials and complete the course.

Please be informed that there will be no refund for online courses.

• This course is accredited by the Singapore Medical Council, Singapore Nursing Board. (This is only applicable for local learners.)
• Course participants will be awarded with an e-Certificate of Completion upon completion of the online course*.

*The e-Certificate of Completion will only be awarded to participants upon completion the of all coursework (including assessments and evaluation)

• Local and international doctors and nurses in active clinical practice in acute care settings

• Registered doctors and nurses