CPD Points:
2 (General) & 3 (Ethics) CEUs from CMSA
What is the Communication in Children’s Palliative Care course about?
This course offers people working with or caring for children who have life-threatening or life-limiting conditions knowledge on how to improve their communication skills both privately and within a work environment, with an emphasis on the unique skills needed when working with children needing palliative care and their families. The Communication in Children’s Palliative Care course covers the following key elements:
- What is communication, communication styles and the value of being a good communicator
- Skills needed to communicate effectively within a broad spectrum of healthcare settings
- How to prepare for and hold difficult conversations, including how to break bad news to children and families
- Communicating with newly bereaved and grieving parents and family members
- Appropriate communication with children of different ages and stages of development
- How to talk to children about their own illness and death
- Making the best use of internet connectivity when providing palliative care to children
Course Reviews
Why take the course?
“Communication is an essential part of life and a crucial factor in medical care. Within a palliative care scenario, it is even more imperative. The Patch Academy module on communication highlights why this is so important and provides key information on how to talk to caregivers and children about goals of care as well as breaking bad news. This is an area many of us struggle with and the information within this module will change the way you practice.”
Tracey Brand
Director & Co-Founder of Umduduzi – Hospice Care for Children
Medical Social Worker
“I found the Communications course excellent and very intense in terms of being packed with information and appreciated the brilliant links to extra reading, communication types, etc. It’s honestly the best Communications training module I’ve done in all my professional years. The content and arrangement of the module completely absorbed me, so I found I needed time to digest it before starting on the Teamwork module.”
Carol Swanepoel
Professional Nurse
St Luke’s Hospice