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In the seventh blog for our Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Associate Professor Megan Best from the University of Notre Dame Australia discusses why spiritual care is important in palliative care, and how training in spiritual caregiving can support healthcare professionals.
In the third blog for our 2021 Oceanic Palliative Care Conference series, Ms Deb Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care at Flinders University and Dr Lauren Miller-Lewis, Positive Psychology Lecturer at CQ University, discuss the reflections of Dying2Learn 2020 participants regarding changes to funerals during COVID-19.
Oceanic Palliative Care Conference is the pre-eminent event for palliative and end-of-life care in the Oceanic region. As a sponsor and supporter of the conference, we will be publishing a series of blogs from Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and participants. In the second blog for the series, PCA's interview with Professor Meera Agar highlights the importance to invest in palliative care research.
Oceanic Palliative Care Conference is the pre-eminent event for palliative and end-of-life care in the Oceanic region. As a sponsor and supporter of the conference, we will be publishing a series of blogs from Palliative Care Australia (PCA) and participants. In the first blog for the series, PCA discusses opportunities gained by holding the bi-annual conference virtually despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 has brought about many challenges to providing education for healthcare professionals. Hence, education providers have had to come up with innovative ways to deliver workshops. In this blog Steph Dickinson and Sharon Wetzig from the Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative, Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at QUT discusses how the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) adapted to online formats of education and discusses the response to running workshops virtually.