Palliative Care Overview for Ambulance Clinicians
Wednesday 21st May 2025
9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Virtual via Zoom

Who should attend:
Open to any ambulance staff who have direct patient contact and who wish to gain a basic awareness about palliative and end of life care
Course Aims:
To provide an overview of palliative care essentials
Objectives:
- To recognise dying and deterioration
- To describe the role of anticipatory medicines in making patients comfortable
- To explore documents available to aid decision making in palliative care (including ReSPECT and DNACPR forms)
- To state services that can support the management of palliative care patients (particularly in Hertfordshire)
- To highlight key communication skills
Presented by

Claire Nicell
Joint Head of Education and Learning
Her palliative care experience has involved working in hospitals, hospices and as a Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse. More recently her focus and experience has switched to education. Within Hertfordshire she was part of the ABC project delivering palliative and end of life care to care homes throughout the county and then spent 18 months with the palliative care team at Watford General Hospital implementing The Rose Project (to promote dignity and respect at the end of life).
Claire loves working collaboratively with different colleagues across the social and health care sectors and helping individuals apply the principles of palliative care to their setting to promote excellent palliative care for those they care for.
She keeps her hand in clinically by working with her colleagues in the Community Palliative Care team and supporting a support group for patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis to ensure she practices what she teaches!

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