Who should Attend:
Health Professionals working in hospital and community service settings, that provide care for seriously ill children, adolescents and their families
Melissa Heywood, Clinical Nurse Consultant for the Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program, will be joined by experts from the Royal Children’s Hospital to host this workshop highlight paediatric palliative care with health professionals
Topics:
· Introduction to Paediatric Palliative Care
· Symptom management
· Layers of grief and loss
· Communication
· Ethics
· Reflections of parents
· Siblings