Lucia Dhlakama – Placement Reflection

Lucia works in Aged Care and wanted to increase her knowledge and confidence with palliative care and end of life care education.  Lucia believes that everyone deserves to die with dignity and should be pain free. …

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Sharon Cully – Placement Reflection

Sharon completed placement with the goal to source and create materials that focused on palliative care that could support patients and families who were in the care of Manjimup Home and Community Care Service.  The organisation…

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Kaylee Brown – Placement Reflection

A great Palliative care resource created by Kaylee for her facility at Matthew Flinders Home in Adelaide.

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Alexandra Sun – Placement Outcome Report

Many patients and family prefer to have palliative care on the medical ward. Historically, managing patients in palliative care on the medical ward has presented some challenges, such as work stress and nurses’ skills and attitude…

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Carolyn Bodfish – Placement Reflection

Carolyn recently completed her placement in the Whittle Unit in Hobart. Carolyn was really interested on developing her knowledge and skill with communication in palliative care.  She was also interested in learning more about palliative care…

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Cassie Cox – Placement Reflection

Cassie recently attended placement and these were her thoughts: “I met some of my initial goals and was given resources on the goals I did not meet. There was little opportunity to develop further skills/ knowledge…

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Navneet Kaur – Placement Outcome

Throughout Navneet’s clinical Placement she learned many different aspects of palliative care that she will take back to her facility to educate the nursing staff and care worker staff.  Support for grief services and details for…

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Emmerton Park – Placement Outcome

Emmerton Park, located in the beautiful coastal town of Smithton, Tasmania had seven of their nursing and care team undertake another Reverse PEPA education program. The team members were made up of Registered and Enrolled Nurses,…

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Anglicare NSW – Participant Navjot Kaur Outcome

Anglicare NSW recently supported many of their team to complete Reverse PEPA placements at their various facilities.  Registered Nurse Navjot Kaur highlighted the goal of the placement within her facility was to “enhance the quality of…

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Sarah McIntosh – Placement Outcome

Sarah McIntosh works on the beautiful north-west coast of Tasmania as a Clinical Support Officer with Ambulance Tasmania. She undertook her PEPA placement with the Specialist Palliative Care Service in Burnie in October 2020. Sarah’s post-placement…

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Mersey Community Hospital – Summary of Outcomes

Mersey Community Hospital has a new six-bed palliation ward within its facility recently opened at Latrobe.  It became a priority for Mersey Community Hospital to support their staff with education opportunities to provide a palliative approach…

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Gabriel Grey – Placement Reflection

Gabriel completed placement and an extensive referenced critical reflection as her report. During Gabriel’s clinical placement, she had the opportunity to accompany a palliative nurse practitioner (NP) to various residential aged care facilities (RACF) in Canberra.…

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