This course is designed to support Care Assistants to deliver improved palliative care to their patients by enhancing their knowledge and understanding of palliative care by exploring a number of topics which include:

 Principles of palliative care

• Understanding pain and other common symptoms
• Communicating with and supporting the dying person, their family and whanau
• Caring for dying residents in the last days of life
• Understanding loss and grief

 Cost: Free

Session 2:  Tuesday 19th Sept 2017, 8.30am - 12.30pm