Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care (GC-PALCARE) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Beyond the core curriculum of the Specialist Certificate, the Graduate Certificate will extend health professional competencies across a greater range of clinical areas. Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care should have increased knowledge, skills and competence in areas of bereavement care, adult and paediatric palliative care as well as a sound foundation in the core principles of palliative care.

Generic skills

On completion of the course, students should have:

• An advanced theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary palliative care practice
• Developed the capacity to analyse and relate evidence based practice to the clinical setting
• Increased their level of clinical competency in analysis and evaluation to assist in assessing and managing a range of clinical symptoms
• Considered the role of a multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of a patient and family with a life limiting illness and enhanced ability to transmit solutions to the team
• Critically analysed the impact of loss and bereavement both for themselves and for the provision of services to patients as practitioners