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1 Year On Campus Certificate Program
Edge Hill UniversityThis PGCert is designed to make palliative and end-of-life care real, meaningful and accessible for all frontline clinical staff. The programme is suitable for nurses (community, hospital, nursing home, hospice), health and social care practitioners, allied health professionals, paramedics and doctors (GPs, speciality doctors and doctors in training). You will gain enhanced knowledge, confidence and competence in assessing the palliative and end-of-life care needs of patients and their families. Individual disease groups will be analysed and the trajectory of dying assessed, looking for similarities and differences and seeing how these might be managed. In addition to this, you will learn how to manage symptoms and address concerns arising across the four domains of holistic care (physical, psychological, spiritual and social). Ethical and legal aspects of care will also be considered.
Should have a degree equivalent to UK second class honours (2:2 or above), Interview required.
Upon successful completion of the programmeyou will have the skills and knowledge required to provide effective support to patientstheir families and other health professionals in managing end-of-life care
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