Provide Patients Comfort at End-of-Life

Older people and those with underlying medical conditions are more susceptible to becoming severely ill with COVID-19.  Palliative Care professionals care for people with underlying medical conditions and those who have COVID-19.  

To allow the Palliative Care community to come together during the CoVID-19 pandemic to share resources, support each other, and stay connected with other professionals facing hardships around the world, PCN created Palliative Care Network Connections.  Current topics discussed include:

• Why is Spiritual Care Important during this time of crisis?
• No One has to Die Alone
• Teleheatlh:  Connecting at a Distance
• Celebrating the Little Things

Palliative Care professionals are experts in symptom management and communication.  They focus on quality of life and minimize patient suffering.  Therefore, they are essential during the COVID-19 pandemic in treating patients.

Your donations allow Palliative Care Network to continue providing free resources to palliative care professionals globally.  Thank you. 

Links:

• Palliative Care Network
• PCN CONNECTIONS

Claudia’s poster on Enabling optimal palliative care within Australian hospitals received the first prize at the annual poster exhibition. She has worked in palliative care for 20 years in either a clinical, academic or policy focused role and has completed an Honours degree (Nursing) at the University of Sydney, a Masters degree in Advancing Professional Healthcare Practice at King’s College, London and is currently a Phd Candidate at the University of Technology Sydney, with her research focusing on optimising palliative care within the hospital setting.

Claudia said The International Palliative Care Network Poster Exhibition is an amazing opportunity to engage with researchers across the world in a really time-efficient and affordable way. I particularly value the opportunity to browse through the posters in my own time where you can really take the time to read the content and then engage with fellow researchers accordingly. Reading through the amazing work underway provides a fantastic opportunity to learn and engage with others who are keen to make improvements within palliative care – I have made several notes to follow up with lead authors over coming months and look forward to doing so.

I am really excited to have won this award as I interpret doing so as positive feedback about the study I am working on from an international audience who are so well informed about palliative care. I am passionate about enabling optimal care for people with palliative care needs, within the hospital setting and would love to see practical methods to enable this, tested and shown to make a difference for patients and families. Winning this poster presentation affirms others’ interest in this area and their positive feedback about the design we are using to inform change with this feedback being very important and valued by our research team – huge thanks!

Links:

• Palliative Care Network
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• PCN on Instagram