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Palliative Care
What differentiates palliative care from just good care is the awareness that a person’s mortality has started to influence clinical and/or personal decision making.
Supporting someone who may be approaching the end of their life can be some of the most challenging work that any social care or health worker faces. This means you need the right skills and knowledge to do the job competently and confidently. This short course will guide health and social care professionals who support people who have palliative and end of life care needs. The emphasis of this course is to ensure that the person is centre of all decision making and good communication is essential, even though it may that we want to avoid the challenging discussions.
This course has been developed considering the PEOCL framework that has been developed in partnership with the SSSC and the NHS Education Scotland.

Understanding Palliative Care




