Health Professionals
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We are committed to collaborating to deliver high-quality training and education to health professionals and volunteers working in or interested in palliative care. Our training and education programmes cover a wide range of topics relating to palliative care.
Training and education
Our training and education programmes are grounded in the belief that caring for others is both a clinical skill and a profoundly human endeavour. Designed for healthcare professionals and volunteers who work in or are interested in palliative care.
Our learning opportunities extend beyond the practical aspects of clinical care. A deeper understanding of dignity, compassion, and the privilege of accompanying people and their whānau through some of life’s most vulnerable moments.
Programme topics
- Principles and ethics of palliative care.
- Communication in palliative care.
- Symptom management.
- Supporting individuals and families in the last days of life.
- Understanding loss, grief and bereavement.
- Nurturing your own wellbeing and resilience as a healthcare professional.
Browse our upcoming education and training courses at Cranford Hospice.
Cranford Hospice e-learning platform
The Moodle platform is available to the Cranford Hospice team and CSCI refresher workshop attendees. Go to, Moodle
Upcoming training and education
Topics covered include pain, other symptom management, chronic illness and dementia for palliative care patients and palliative medicines.
Revises key learning, promotes awareness of best practice and further develops your knowledge and confidence in syringe driver competency.
Learn how to translate an individual’s wishes into an ACP and support patients to create an ACP.
Focuses on the principles and ethics of palliative care, communication, culture, spiritual aspects of death and dying, end-of-life care, grief and bereavement, and wellbeing.
Build confidence and strengthen your communication skills when having compassionate and meaningful conversations with patients and whānau.
Designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to manage a syringe driver competently.
Revises key learning, promotes awareness of best practice and further develops your knowledge and confidence in syringe driver competency.
Gain confidence and improved skills in the palliative care philsophy, learn to recognise pain and manage symptoms and gain improved communication skills.
Build confidence and strengthen your communication skills when having compassionate and meaningful conversations with patients and whānau.
Learn how to respond with confidence, compassion and sensitivity when caring for people experiencing grief and loss.
Designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to manage a syringe driver competently.
Learn how to translate an individual’s wishes into an ACP and support patients to create an ACP.