Palliative Care Volunteer Training

“Although the world is full of sufferings, it is also full of ways to alleviate suffering.”

This famous quote by ‘Helen Keller’ reminds us of the importance of ‘Palliative Care’. Every human being has the right to live with dignity and to die without pain and suffering. Palliative care mainly works towards that goal.

In defining palliative care, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified initiatives that improve the quality of life of patients with terminal illnesses and their families by addressing their physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems, preventing and alleviating suffering.

‘Dame Cecily Saunders’, the founder of the palliative movement, said, “You matter because you exist, you are a part of our reality. You matter until the last moment of life. Not just that you die peacefully but that you live peacefully until you die – we will do everything to do for that”.

Objectives of Palliative Care Training

The overall objective of the palliative care volunteer training is to train the volunteers to provide palliative care services at the community level.

Eligible Participants

• Anybody 18+ years, willing to help patients in the community.
• Family members of cancer, kidney failure, stroke, paralysis, dementia, and disabled patients.
• Allied persons in the community.
• Teachers and students of college or university.
• Anybody working in the health sector.

Benefits of the training

• To be able to provide home based care to the patient & family members
• To be able to do wound dressing
• To be able to provide health talks on palliative care
• To be able to work in a health care facility as a palliative care volunteer

Name of the Training

Palliative Care Volunteer Training

Curriculum

Day-01

# Registration of the participants.

# Welcome note from Eminence CEO.

# Pre-test: 10 questions (20 minutes)

  Lecture 1: Introduction to palliative care

  Lecture 2: Home-based care

  Lecture 3: Communication skills

  Lecture 4: Public Health aspects of Community Palliative Care

 #  Demonstration of communication (One to One)

  #  Q & A

Day 02:

Lecture 5: Palliative care need

Lecture 6: Role of palliative care volunteer

Lecture 7: BED-RIDDEN patient care

LECTURE 8: Wound dressing

Lecture 9: Palliative care in Health Planning

#  Q & A.

# Post-test: 10 questions (20 minutes)

# Certificate award Ceremony

# Closing Remarks.

Duration

2 Days (Saturday and Sunday)

Time

10:00 AM to 04:00 PM (Lunch break 1.00 PM-2.00 PM)

Mode of Training

• Virtual
• In-person

Venue

Eminence

Faculty

• Specialist in Palliative Medicine
• Doctors
• Certified Volunteer of Palliative Care

Affiliation By

NCD Alliance and BNCDF

Registration Fee

After 30% discount,

2100 BDT Virtual

4000 BDT In-person

Registration Link

https://forms.gle/YjD56TfiFAAj3dtz8

Bkash No

+8801709649902

Participants will be rewarded certificate of attendance.