Palliative Care
PRIME offers a variety of education programmes and consultation, including:
- The philosophy of palliative care
- The concept of total pain
- Factors influencing the perception of pain
- Pain control and the WHO ladder
- Co-analgesics
- Non-pharmacological approaches
- Symptom control
- Introduction to HIV/AIDS
- Palliative care emergencies
- Communication skills
- Breaking bad news
- Loss and bereavement
- Different cultural approaches to death
- Ethical dilemmas
- Management - establishing and maintaining a hospice service
- Management of staff stress