Course Overview

The ELNEC program has been taught throughout USA and in 100 countries since 2001. It may be adapted to various practice environments and provides a first level awareness of the palliative care approach for participants in various healthcare disciplines. It is administered by City of Hope National Medical Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).

Modules covered in this course:

• Introduction to ELNEC – Geriatric Care
• Module 1: Principles of Palliative Care
• Module 2: Geriatric Palliative Care
• Module 3: Syndromes and Symptoms
• Module 4: Pain Assessment and Management
• Module 5: Cultural and Spiritual Considerations
• Module 6: Ethic and Goal of Care
• Module 7: Communication
• Module 8: Loss, Grief and Bereavement
• Module 9: Final Hours

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Provide participants with the awareness and foundational knowledge and skills to care for Geriatric clients with life limiting illnesses.
• Explore multiple facets of palliative care and how to integrate the patient’s family’s role in caring for the Geriatric client.

Who should attend

• This course is suitable for Registered Nurse, Enrolled Nurse, Allied Health Professional, Psychosocial Staff, Senior Management, Support Care Staff.

Training Hours
20

Associate Prof. Edward Poon Wing Hong
Chief Nurse

PhD (Monash), MSc Palliative Care (King’s College, UK), BHSN (Sydney), Adv Dip Nsg Neuroscience (Singapore), Infection Control Cert (Hong Kong), POLST Certified, End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Trainer (USA/Singapore), SRN.

A/Prof Edward Poon graduated from University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Health Science Nursing in 1998 , obtained his Master of Science in Palliative Care at King’s College London in 2002 and PhD at Monash University at 2013.

He has since acquired a broad and recent nursing experiences with specialty practices and teaching in infection control, neuroscience, quality management, research and palliative care. With his expert’s knowledge in palliative care, he has contributed in research, community care outreached local and overseas, sitting at national advisory board and ethics board and volunteered teaching palliative care at Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

He has vested clinical experiences from both restructured hospital, community hospital, hospice and the community care. He has setup caregiver training center to support the caregivers, palliative care nurses chapter to set standards and support to the palliative care nurses. He is involved at national policy making such as the National Nursing Taskforce and the National Palliative Care Taskforce. Currently he is helping St Luke’s Eldercare in designing the new nursing home. He has a wide range of publications and books and with his achievements, he was awarded the Healthcare Humanity Award and the President Nurses Award on 2014.

Ms Jocelyn Ng Ling Hui
Assistant Director of Nursing

M.Ed (Adelaide), B.Sc Nursing (Curtin), Advance Diploma in Nursing – Gerontology (Singapore), Certificate in Basic Palliative Care Nursing, End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Trainer, Certified Advance Care Planning Facilitator, SRN.

Jocelyn started her career as a EN in 2002 and now she is the senior nurse educator at St Luke’s Eldercare. She obtained her Master degree in Education in 2018 and has help in setting up simulation lab at SLEC and help in teaching palliative care and Gericare to the community.

The full course is $697.60 (including GST). Prevailing course fee subsidy at 90% for Singapore Citizens/Permanent Residents and 45% for work pass holders working in eligible community care organisations.

Available date(s):
a. 14 February to 16 February 2024
b. 12 June to 14 June 2024
c. 10 July to 12 July 2024
d. 9 Oct to 11 October 2024

Time:
Day 1: 9 am to 6 pm
Day 2: 9 am to 6 pm
Day 3: 9 am to 1 pm

Venue:
Eagles Center
166 Bukit Merah Central
#04-3531
Singapore 150166

* The training venue may change due to unforeseen circumstances and the trainees will be informed accordingly.

For AIC Community Care Organisations, please register via AIC LMS at

AIC Learning Network

For additional information, please contact Learning Hub at  commcareacademy@slec.org.sg