About the course

This course will serve as an introduction to palliative care in humanitarian crisis settings. Improving your understanding and knowledge of palliative care through completing these online activities will equip you with a holistic, person-centred approach to providing care for patients with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses and their families. We encourage you to put your learning into practice by including aspects of palliative care in your daily work. Integrating palliative care into your practice will relieve suffering for patients and families and improve the quality of care you provide.

Target audience

This course is aimed at all healthcare workers who are involved in providing palliative care, including nurses, doctors, Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) staff and social workers. The course ‘Introduction to Palliative Care’ may be of interest to project coordinators, medical coordinators and others in more managerial roles who would like to learn more about the concept of palliative care.

Validation 

OCBA

Duration 

1h

Learning objectives 

• Define Palliative Care 
• Describe why palliative care is needed and who needs it 
• Define when to start palliative care 
• Explain where palliative care can be delivered 
• Identify who provides palliative care 
• Explain how to provide palliative care 

Methodology 

Self-learning online course and completion of quiz

Certification 

Participants will receive a badge on completion.

Technical considerations 

The course is best completed on a computer, laptop or tablet. However, it should also be possible on a mobile as long as the screen size is large enough. 

N.B. Hyperlinks or links to websites are not available if you have downloaded the course and are completing it offline. You will need to have internet access to view them.