EMPOWER: Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department
Welcome to EMPOWER: Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department
Join us for the first fully online Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department healthcare practitioners in Singapore!
Specially designed by practicing clinicians and nurses from Emergency Medicine and Palliative Medicine, this course provides busy clinicians and nurses with generalist palliative care skills and knowledge to meet the needs of patients with serious life-limiting diseases in the Emergency Department.
TOPICS
- The scope of palliative care in the Emergency Department
- Pain and symptom management.
- Care of the dying.
- Serious illness communications.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the importance of integrating palliative care principles in emergency department settings.
- Apply principles of pain and symptom management for patients requiring palliative care.
- Identify the patient at end-of-life and provide appropriate care for the dying in the emergency department context.
- Develop basic communication skills for sensitive conversations with critically-ill patients and their families.
Learners will access materials such as videos, animated presentations, readings, assessments on the Learning Management System (LMS) at own pace and time.
Estimated time required is 5 hours.
Learners have access to the materials for one month upon successful registration.
The online self-paced learning is supplemented by an online forum that will address any questions and comments.
Please click on <COURSE PURCHASE> tab to purchase the course.
For learners who have an existing account / are NUS user, please drop an email to lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg before clicking to buy.
For bulk enrolment, kindly email lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg.
Note: A minimum of 10 pax are required for bulk enrolment.
For learners who have an existing account / are NUS user, please drop an email to lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg before clicking to buy.
Click on the link below to register and purchase the respective course
EMPOWER: Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department for Doctors
EMPOWER: Palliative Care Course for Emergency Department for Nurses
Accreditation
Submission of continuing education credits (CPE/CME) for fully asynchronous courses is to be done by learners through their respective accreditation boards upon course completion
Certification
Course participants will be awarded with an e-Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course*.
*The e-Certificate of Attendance will only be awarded to participants via the Learning Management System upon completion of all coursework (including assessments and evaluation)
- Proficiency in English
- Registered doctors and nurses
For more information, please contact us at lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg or visit our course page HERE.