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Specialist Certificate in Palliative Care (SC-PALCARE) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
Principal Coordinator
Karen Quinn
Contact
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Professional accreditation
NA
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary palliative care practice.
- Critique and use evidence-based practice in the clinical setting.
- Analyse and evaluate their level of clinical competency to assist in assessing and managing a range of physical symptoms in adult and paediatric populations.
- Examine the role of a multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of a patient and family with a life limiting illness and enhanced their ability to transmit solutions to the team.
- Identify psychosocial issues as they relate to palliative care including distinguishing between different forms of psychological and psychiatric disorders.
- Identify the impact of loss and bereavement both for themselves and for the provision of services to patients as practitioners.
- Apply ethical reasoning in their clinical practice.
Generic skills
n/a
Graduate attributes
Academic distinction
- Graduates will develop in-depth knowledge of evidence-based practice approaches to palliative patient care. They will develop high-level clinical competency in assessing and managing patient symptoms, taking a multidisciplinary view to care. Graduates will be critical and adaptive thinkers with an aptitude for life-long learning.
Active citizenship
- Graduates will be critically aware of the needs of the diverse communities they work with and will take a culturally sensitive approach to patient care.
Integrity and self-awareness
- Graduates will have a strong sense of professional identity and integrity that is based upon a solid ethical framework that considers the complexity of palliative contexts. They will highly self-aware and reflective, working to always improve their practice. They will act with empathy and sensitivity with a strong awareness of the wellbeing of others and themselves.
Last updated: 12 November 2021