Study Guide

Objective

The student
- applies evidence-based professional knowledge when planning, implementing and assessing psycho-social and existential support for a patient in palliative care and his/her family in a multi-professional team
- assesses and develops his/her own expertise when working in a multi-professional team and network
- interprets the patient's communication needs and changes, as well as plans ways to communicate, considering the patient's linguistic and cultural background
- has proficient communication skills when meeting patients and their close ones in palliative care and terminal care
- assesses and develops his/ her own emotional and self-reflection skills

Content

Contents:
- Psycho-social needs and psycho-social support methods (physical, psychological, social, spiritual, sexual)
- Social benefits
- Implementation and access to existential and spiritual support
- Grief as a concept and phenomenon; grieving and crisis work for various age-groups
- Keeping up hope, empowerment
- Encountering people of different ages and with different cultural backgrounds
- Interaction when meeting a patient in palliative and terminal care and his/ her close ones
- Talking about difficult issues
- Participating in patient care conference as a member of a multi-professional team
- Broaching a delicate topic
- Active listening
- Helpful interaction
- A motivating discussion
- Alternative communication methods and speech supportive methods
- Usage of interpreter services
- Multi-professionalism
- Consulting competence
- Awareness skills and self-knowledge
- Coping at work, career counseling, compassion exhaustion

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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Assessment criteria, good (3)

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Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

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Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student's expertise is demonstrated in accordance with the learning goals' criteria. Competence is assessed on the basis of constructive evaluation. The student, a peer student and the supervising teacher carry out a discussion about the student's competence and its development in respect to the learning goals.
Special palliative care competence needed in working life, in other words the ability to build together knowledge, skills, experience, values and social networks, will be assessed. General assessment criteria for demonstration of competencies based on NQF/ EQF-level 6 will be used in assessment. In addition, detailed criteria based on competence description will be used.

Further information

Implementation:
- contact teaching, online learning
- learning diary, multi-professional seminar
- drama teaching or simulations
- career counseling