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Most patients succumb to their life - limiting illness despite the best of advanced medical interventions and the burden of suffering may cause despair to patients and their families. This workshop addresses how to deal with issues of suffering as many may know how to give hope when all curative treatment becomes futile.
For this workshop, we are bringing in two international facilitators from New Zealand, Dr Susan Marsden, a Palliative Care Consultant with a background in Radiation Oncologist and Ms Liese Groot-Alberts, a professional Grief Therapist to address the above issues.This workshop is suitable for doctors, senior clinicans, nurses, psychologists, counsellors and especially those involved in making crucial decisions when the transitions from cure, to prolonging survival and palliation becomes the aims of holistic patient - centred care.
| Registration Fee (RM) | |
| Doctors | Nurses/Allied Healthcare Professionals |
| 300 | 300 |
Download registration form here.For further information, please contact Rosaline at 03 - 9133 3936 (ext: 200)
Venue: Auditorium (Level 1)
Hospis Malaysia
2, Jalan 2/96,
Taman Sri Bahtera,
56100 Cheras,
Kuala Lumpur.
Friday, 23 July 2010 (Day 1)
0800-0830 Registration
0830-0915 Introduction & Aim of Workshop
0915-1030 Understanding of Grief
1030-1100 Coffee break
1100-1300 Disenfranchised Grief
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1445 Needs and responsibilities of healthcare professionals
1445-1530 The Grief Journey
1530-1545 Tea Break
1545-1700 Developing strategies in Grief management
Saturday , 24 July 2010 (Day 2)
0845-0900 Registration
0900-1030 Understanding & exploring Suffering
1030-1045 Coffee Break
1045-1200 Introducing an assessment of suffering in the clinical setting
1200-1300 Does cure and increased survival reduce suffering?
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1445 Suffering of families and others
1445-1600 Practical aspects of working with patients and families
1600-1630 Q & A
1630 Tea Break & Close
Sunday, 25 July 2010 (Day 3)
0845 – 0900 Registration
0900 – 1000 Understanding the concept Of Hope
1000 – 1030 Coffee Break
1030 – 1200 Maintaining Hope when goals of care changes
1200 – 1300 Facilitating Hope in advanced cancer
1300 – 1400 Lunch Break
1400 – 1500 Exploring the professionals perceptions on Hope
1500 – 1545 Communicating Hope and false Hope
1545 – 1600 Tea Break
1600 – 1700 Psychological and spiritual framework on Hope
1700 – 1730 Q & A and Close
Facilitators
Dr Susan Marsden
Palliative Care Specialist
North Haven Hospice
Whangarei
NEW ZEALAND
Ms Liese Groot-Ablerts
Grief Therapist
Cairnhill Medical Centre
Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
Dr. Ednin Hamzah
CEO/Medical Director
Hospis Malaysia
Dr Sylvia Mc Carthy
Deputy Medical Director
Hospis Malaysia
