Personal Development Resources

Journal Club

• University of Alabama (US) give you 10 steps to developing a journal club.
• CareSearch website have a section in finding evidence named Journal club basics. Here you find details of how to hold a journal club, including a virtual journal club.
• For an explanation on see the YouTube video How to prepare and present a research paper at a journal club.
• The Ochsner Health System (US) provide a YouTube video on Virtual nursing journal clubs.

Providing Education

• CareSearch website has a list of Health Professional learning options in palliative care.
• The palliAGED Training and Education section has information on the many different types of palliative care education and training opportunities that are currently available.

Basic Training

• The National Palliative Care Program has a project called Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) which aims to promote inclusion of palliative care education as an integral part of all medical, nursing and allied health undergraduate training.
• palliAGED has a series of introductory modules in palliative care.

• Visit the palliAGED website palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets. Including topics such as ‘Talking about dying’ and ‘Talking within the Aged Care Team’
• The Cancer Australia website has a section on All about Multidisciplinary care which talks about the integrated team approach to care.
• The PCC4U website has online learning modules on:
  • the multidisciplinary team
  • the team meeting
  • Providing multidisciplinary care at the end of life.
• The MND (motor neurone disease) Australia website has a Consumer Fact Sheet on Multidisciplinary care (2019) which provides information on expectations for care management.

• palliAGED Improving Care section provides information for support nurses and care workers who provide palliative care in aged care
  • For health and care staff there is a self-care template (83kb pdf) that can be used online or printed to develop your own plan
  • For nurses there is information on promoting self-care and within an aged care team (83kb pdf). There is also a practice tip sheet that supports nursing staff dealing with grief and loss.
  • For care workers, the Self-care Tip Sheet provides information on aspects of self-care and there is also information on experiencing grief and loss as a care worker in aged care.
• From the Agency for Clinical Innovation. Listen to Sandra Sullivan and Kate Weyman talk about clinical supervision – caring for the care provider.

Contributing factors

• Palliative care Australia, provide Mindful Breathing, Body Scan guided relaxation and self-compassion guided meditation to support the use of physical and inner self strategies.
• Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin Fast Facts provide access to the following:
  • Managing one’s emotions as a clinician
  • Dealing with anger
  • Professional patient boundaries in palliative care.

Self-care strategies

• palliAGED Practice Centre provides information for support nurses and care workers who provide palliative care in aged care
  • For health and care staff there is a self-care template (83kb pdf) that can be used online or printed to develop your own plan
  • For nurses there is information on promoting self-care and within an aged care team (83kb pdf). There is also a practice tip sheet that supports nursing staff dealing with grief and loss
  • For care workers, the Self-care Tip Sheet provides information on aspects of self-care and there is also information on experiencing grief and loss as a care worker in aged care.
• From the Palliative Care Bridge website. Listen to Sandra Sullivan and Kate Weyman talk about clinical supervision – caring for the care provider.