Interprofessional Approaches to Pain and Other Symptoms in Palliative Care

UCC CPD MODULE TITLE:

Interprofessional Approaches to Pain and Other Symptoms in Palliative Care

COURSE CODE:

IP6008

CREDIT WEIGHTING:

10

DATES

Spring 2025

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

Candidates must have:

• A primary degree or an equivalent experience in a relevant health care discipline* to be approved by the Programme Team.
• Registration or eligibility for registration with the appropriate professional healthcare registration body.
• Ideally, candidates should have a minimum of one-year post qualification experience in healthcare provision.
• A relevant health care discipline includes, but is not limited to medicine, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, audiology physiotherapy, psychology, and social studies.

All applicants are required to complete an application form and provide evidence of current professional registration.

VENUE:

Blended Learning – Online (live and pre-recorded).

OUTLINE:

This is a blended learning module for health professionals to develop the learner’s knowledge, attitudes and skills thus enabling the learner to apply the principles of palliative care in their clinical practice, to help improve the quality of life of patients receiving palliative care and their families.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

On successful completion of this module, participants should be able to:

• Describe the range of pharmacological and non-pharmacological options available for the management of pain, common symptoms and potential emergency situations in palliative care.
• Apply knowledge of the causes and contributors of pain and other symptoms in the development of appropriate reactive and proactive pain and symptom management plans.
• Identify appropriate methods/tools to evaluate palliative care needs and demonstrate how these may be used in the delivery of high-quality patient-centred care.
• Illustrate the role and benefit of inter-professional teams in the development and communication of individualised, pain and symptom management plans for palliative care patients.
• Recognise the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual context of pain and symptoms and the impact on patients, families/carers, health care professionals and teams.
• Discuss strategies and resources to promote and encourage patients’ self-care and independence where appropriate and to support the family/carers in the management of palliative care patients with long terms symptoms.
• Construct a management/care-plan, from the perspective of the student’s own discipline, which considers the potential benefits, burdens, harms, legal and ethical issues, available resources and individual patient/family wishes.

Registration is now open: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ip6008/

or you can contact Helen Leahy – Clinical Tutor for Marymount University Hospital and Hospice via email: hleahy@marymount.ie