Education in Aged Care

Empowering Aged Care teams with practical Palliative Care Training

Compassionate, on-site or online education tailored to your Aged Care team’s needs.

At Banksia Palliative Care, we understand the challenges aged care staff face when supporting residents at the end of life. Our tailored education sessions are designed to boost confidence, reduce stress, and improve the quality of care for residents and families alike.

Why aged care teams choose our training

• • Customised to your facility: Every aged care site is different. We adapt our sessions to your team’s unique needs and context.

• • Practical & scenario-based: We focus on real-world situations your staff encounter that provide useful and compassionate strategies.

• • Flexible delivery: Whether it’s a 1hr or a full-day session, we fit around your schedule. Available in-person or online.

• • Offered by palliative care experts: Our facilitators are experienced clinicians who bring experience, deep knowledge, and empathy to every session.

• • Improves staff confidence & resident outcomes: Staff feel more prepared. Families feel more supported. Everyone benefits.

A 1 hour session will introduce you to the fundamental principles of a topic.  2 hours will provide you with in-depth and more specific understanding, knowledge and clinical capacity.

Training topics include:

End-of-life and physical care

• What is palliative care
• Illness trajectories
• End-of-life care pathways
• Signs of deterioration and dying
• What to do when someone has died
• Self-care
• Pain assessment

Introduction to continuous subcutaneous infusions (syringe drivers) with attached competencies

• Indications for use
• Common medications and compatibility
• Rationale for infusion sites
• Preparing, loading and reviewing infusions
• Overview of facility based policy and procedure
• Syringe driver care for ACFs

Identifying deterioration & Communication with families

• Becoming comfortable with initiating conversations around death and dying
• Understanding complexities of communication with families
• Support for families and carers who are grieving
• Self-care and supporting colleagues

End-of-life and palliative care medications

• Introduction to palliative care
• Identification of the deteriorating person
• How to care for someone at the end of life
• Common medications used in palliative care and their side effects
• When to introduce/use palliative care medications
• Identification of dying and death

Dementia and palliative care

• What is dementia?
• Dementia and pain in residential care
• Identifying deterioration and the need for palliative care
• Providing end-of-life care for people with dementia
• Medications used in providing palliative care for people with dementia

Advance care planning

• Introduction to Advance Care Planning
• Components of Advance Care Planning
• Communication strategies
• The role of health care providers
• Patient and family perspectives