Join us face to face at the Coffs Harbour & Bellingen Clinical Society meeting to network with fellow clinicians, enjoy a two-course dinner, and learn more about palliative care, treatment and support plans and advance care planning services in the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen area.
Dr Daniel Curley will explore the importance of early referral, when to introduce shared care with a GP with a palliative care interest, and the appropriate criteria for referring patients to the Palliative Care Specialist Service.
We’ll hear from a range of speakers discussing how the biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects of a patients journey can lead to improved patient outcomes in the late stages of life, access advanced care planning services and understand how to support a planned death at home, from both the nurses and GP’s perspective.
Register now, come along, ask lots of questions and better understand palliative care for your patients.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the importance of early referral to palliative care from diagnosis and before the terminal phase.
- Explore the biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects of palliative care to maximise the opportunities available within a multidisciplinary palliative care team.
- Prescribe key medications and personalised treatment and support plans that compliment a patients existing community care network in all stages of palliative care.
- Explain the process of supporting a planned death at home for GP’s & nursing staff.
- Access and refer to Advance Care Planning.
Speakers
- Dr Daniel Curley – Palliative Care Specialist, Coffs Harbour Palliative Care Service, MNCLHD
- Dawn Spratt – Palliative Care Nurse Unit Manager, Coffs Harbour Palliative Care Service, MNCLHD
- Dr Lisa Harris – Integrative GP Proceduralist in Palliative Care
- Beverley Morris – Advance Care Planning
Who should attend?
GPs, practice nurses, allied health practitioners, residential aged care, community health and acute care staff.