Nidhi Joshi – VIC

I am a registered nurse in Yea hospital. Our community needs are more aged care and palliative. I had palliative care education before in my previous facility, but not as good as PEPA gave it to…

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Fiona Mowlam – VIC

Fiona organised the PEPA 4 day education for Parkville site and also ran a morning tea during Advance care planning week at Parkville Hub to promote ACP with all staff that attended. They had a mixture…

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Catherine Quinless

Catherine developed a resource folder for the staff at Mercy Place, Warrnambool. The folder will be an invaluable resource for all staff to refer to when needing support and referral information for residents or their families.…

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Tara Leister – VIC

Completing my placement within the community palliative care team allowed me to achieve my goals around understanding the scope of practice of the community team and improving communication between myself and the OT team which I…

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RN Samreen – VIC

The workplace activity I used involved an interactive learning session using a toolbox talk, PowerPoint show and educational videos from the ELDAC portal, discussing the difference between Advanced health care plans and directives. I also used…

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Ballarat Royal Freemasons Residential Aged Care – VIC

Following on from our reverse PEPA Aged Care Placement we decided to go with two projects. We have implemented a family room where family or staff if needed can go for some quite time or to…

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Estia Plenty Valley – VIC

The aim was to set up a palliative care resource box that is available for all staff to use, to improve communication at daily handover and share information gained from the PEPA Aged Care Placement. Following…

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Tara Leister – St John of God, Berwick

Completing my placement within the community palliative care team allowed me to achieve my goals around understanding the scope of practice of the community team and improving communication between myself and the OT team which I…

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Sally Belford – Yea & District Memorial Hospital

Following the completion of the PEPA Aged Care Program our priority goal was to develop awareness and understanding of palliative care in our workplace in order to improve care to patients and support to families. A…

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Royal Freemasons, Mount Martha Valley

Improving palliative care in aged care At the Royal Freemasons, Mount Martha Valley (VIC), staff who have undertaken an Aged Care reverse PEPA placement experience have focused on several workplace activities to improve provision of palliative…

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Samantha Payne – Registered Nurse

Samantha Payne is a Registered Nurse from Westmont Community Aged Care Services, in regional Victoria. Samantha completed a Reverse PEPA placement in February this year at Westmont. The outcomes she achieved were outstanding and demonstrate how…

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Napier Street Aged Care Services (NSACS)

Napier Street Aged Care Services (NSACS) in South Melbourne undertook a reverse PEPA placement with four of their staff and a PEPA mentor. This was to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of the staff in…

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