Project description

PEPA empowers health professionals to deliver quality end-of-life care. PEPA provides Australia’s only free placements in palliative care services for practicing health professionals (2-5 days duration) and free palliative approach workshops.

Recent additions to PEPA are Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA) and PEPA Aged Care. IPEPA embeds Australian Indigenous knowledges across all PEPA resources and facilitates` two-way learning dedicated to (1) building capacity in the mainstream and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce to deliver culturally responsive palliative care and (2) developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’ knowledge of palliative care, their rights, and local services.

Access Course

Learning options

PEPA/IPEPA placements

Participants undertake an observational placement of 2-5 days in a specialist palliative care inpatient, community or hospital-based consultancy setting. Participants are supported to transfer learning into practice.

Target audience

All health professionals and care providers working in primary care or other non-specialist palliative care settings

Reverse PEPA/IPEPA placements

A specialist palliative care staff member travels to a healthcare service to facilitate palliative care learning.

Reverse PEPA placements can be most helpful in:

  • rural and remote settings
  • private practice and health clinic settings
  • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community settings
  • residential aged care settings.
Target audience

All health professionals and care providers working in primary care or other non-specialist palliative care settings where this model of learning is more appropriate.

PEPA aged care

PEPA aged care provides reverse PEPA placements which are free education and training that involves a specialist palliative care educator travelling to an aged care service to facilitate learning for 2-4 days.

Training is flexible and designed and tailored to align specifically with an organisation’s learning needs. It can be completed as one block of time (2-4 days) or divided into shorter blocks.

Target audience

Staff in aged care organisations

Core palliative approach workshops (face to face group workshops)

  • Palliative approach to care
  • Palliative approach to aged care
  • Palliative approach for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare professionals
Target audience
  • GPs and other medical officers
  • RNs, ENs, allied health professionals
  • ENs, careworkers, PCAs, AINs
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare professionals

Focus topic workshops (face to face group workshops)

  • GP palliative care workshop
  • Culturally responsive palliative care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples workshop
  • Culturally responsive palliative care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds workshop
Target audience

All health care providers working with chronic, advanced, and life-limiting illnesses

Support and leadership workshops

Mentoring workshops

Target audience

New and existing PEPA mentors

Funder

Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Cost for participant

Nil

Registration required

Yes

For further information

Kate Bath
PEPA National Project Manager
E-mail: kate.bath@qut.edu.au
Phone: (07) 3138 6121

PEPA Website

Last updated 06 December 2023

Expected outcomes

PEPA empowers health professionals to deliver quality end-of-life care.
PEPA provides Australia’s only free placements in palliative care services for practicing health professionals (2-5 days duration) and free palliative approach workshops.

Access Course

PEPA Clinical placements

Participants undertake an observational placement of 2-5 days in a specialist palliative care inpatient, community or hospital based consultancy setting. Participants are supported to transfer learning into practice.


Target audience

All health professionals and care providers working in primary care or other non-specialist palliative care settings.


Reverse PEPA Placements

A specialist palliative care staff member travels to the residential aged care service or Aboriginal health service to facilitate palliative care learning.


Target audience

All health professionals and care providers working in primary care or other non-specialist palliative care settings where this model of learning is more appropriate.


Core Palliative Approach Workshops (face to face group workshops)

  • Palliative Approach
  • Palliative Approach in Aged Care Workshop
  • Palliative Approach for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Healthcare Professionals


Target audience

  • GPs and other medical officers
  • RNs, ENs, allied health professionals
  • ENs, Care workers, PCAs, AINs
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthcare professionals


Focus Topic Workshops (face to face group workshops)

  • Culture-centred care from Indigenous Australian perspectives
  • Culture-centred care from Multicultural perspectives


Target audience

All health care providers working with chronic, advanced and life-limiting illnesses.


Support and Leadership workshops

Mentoring workshops


Target audience

New and existing PEPA mentors


For further information

Suzanne Cosgrove
PEPA National Project Manager
Queensland University of Technology
t: 07 3138 6121 e: Suzanne.Cosgrove@qut.edu.au


PEPA Website