Course details
Pain is one of the most prevalent and distressing symptoms associated with cancer and life limiting disease trajectories. It is a complex symptom that poses challenges to doctors, nurses and pharmacists for effective assessment and management. This workshop, developed by experienced educators and practitioners from Milford Care Centre, offers a variety of learning modalities combining didactic teaching, hands on case studies, problem based learning in opioid conversions and simulation with syringe driver equipment.
This workshop presents an exciting opportunity for practitioners involved in the day to day management of pain to upskill their practice and knowledge base in deciphering complex pain challenges.
Following completion of this workshop, participants will:
- Understand the principles of caring for patients with pain
- Identify the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of pain
- Demonstrate and practice use of the the McKinley and/or the Graseby syringe driver. Please indicate on your application form which syringe driver you currently use
This programme has Category 1 Approval, CEU’s Continuing Education Units from An Bord Altranais.
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About Milford Care Centre
The overall infrastructure at We_They has changed dramatically over the years since the establishment of Milford House Nursing Home by the Little Company of Mary in 1928. Despite these physical changes we, as a healthcare facility, have strived to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest quality and safe care to our residents, patients and visitors. Today we still uphold the core message of the Little Company of Mary which is reflected in our Mission Statement.
I hope you will have time to browse through our site to see the full range of services we can now offer to our service users and see the supports we provide for family members. We believe that the people we serve deserve only the best and that is what we seek to achieve through our continuous improvement policies and training. Our job here in We_They is to make a positive difference to people’s quality of life and this is a role that we take very seriously.
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