Course Overview

Pain is the fifth vital sign and the management of pain is still remain unresolved. Ineffective pain management can lead to a marked decrease in desirable clinical and psychological outcomes and patients’ overall quality of life. Effective management of acute pain results in improved patient outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.

This course aims to improved interventions that can enhance patients’ attitudes to and perceptions of pain and hope to improve their quality of life.

Course Objectives

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

• Assess somatic and visceral and neuro pain
• To articulate the WHO pain ladder
• Define break through pain
• Perform titration of pain medication
• Calculate the breakthrough pain

Who should attend

Staff attending this course should have attended before Basic Pain Management course or have attended SLEC Pain Management (Basic).

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

Training Hours
4

Associate Prof. Dr. Edward Poon Wing Hong
Chief Nurse, St Luke’s ElderCare

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 Katherin Yeo
Nurse Manager, St Luke’s ElderCare

Adv Dip Nsg Palliative Care, Certificate in Palliative Nursing, ACP Facilitator, COJTC TTT, RN

Katherin started her Palliative Care journey in 2004 when she joined HCA Hospice Care as a Home Hospice Nurse. She went on to pioneer the project on palliative homecare in parkway health in 2008. In 2009, she started her own private nursing services. In 2011, she moved on to run the community hospital as a Nurse Manager and was later promoted to Senior Nurse Manager in 2016. In 2017, she went on to take her Advanced Diploma in Palliative Care.

The full course is $196.20 (including prevailing 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. 22 January 2024
b. 20 August 2024
c. 29 October 2024
d. 22 November 2024

Time:
2pm to 6pm

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

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