Sat.Dec 07, 2019 - Fri.Dec 13, 2019

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A Holiday Tribute to Home and Community Care Providers

AlayaCare

The holidays are a time to celebrate the joys of the season with family and friends – yet they can also introduce high levels of stress and difficulty. December is a particularly acute time of year for the thousands of home care providers upon who some of our most vulnerable citizens rely every day. Their needs do not relax, and continuity of service is important even as it feels like the year is winding down.

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Ep. 6 - Providing Palliative Care to LGBTQ Patients

HPNA podcast

. In our 6th episode of HPNA’s Podcast Corner, we offer listeners a framework to explore nursing advances in LGBTQ-inclusive palliative care. Nina Barrett, palliative care nurse practitioner, frames the unique health needs of the LGBTQ palliative care patient, including challenges regarding disclosure and advance care planning. Nina calls to light the health disparities affecting the LGBTQ population, their historical roots, and the extra challenges facing transgender patients.

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Online training improves medical students’ ability to recognise when a person is dying: The ORaClES randomised controlled trial

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Nicola White and Dr Linda Oostendorp (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London (UCL), London, UK). Recognising dying is a core clinical skill. There is inconsistent training in the United Kingdom and both medical students and doctors report feeling unsure and ill prepared when working with a dying patient and their family.