This course is designed to introduce pediatric palliative care and hospice services. It identifies the broad spectrum of palliative care and hospice care, explains multidisciplinary team members’ roles working with chronically and terminally ill children, and gives examples of pediatric palliative care and hospice program frameworks. The course also explores the different aspects of holistic approach to care for end of life and palliative care. These aspects include pain and symptom management, communication techniques, education, child life services, spiritual care, and grief and bereavement support to support the patient, sibling, and their parents/carers.
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