1 / 7

Role of Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Role of Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. Sheila McConville Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse Southern Health and Social Care Trust. Role of Palliative Care CNS. Key aspects Benefits Challenges. Key Aspects of Role.

nicolette
Download Presentation

Role of Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Role ofPalliative Care ClinicalNurse Specialist Sheila McConville Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse Southern Health and Social Care Trust

  2. Role of Palliative Care CNS • Key aspects • Benefits • Challenges

  3. Key Aspects of Role • Provide expert specialist palliative care to patients / families with complex needs • Service improvement • Consultations with other multi-disciplinary health professionals • Multi-professional education

  4. Service Initiatives within SHSCT • Development of nurse-led clinics • Review of documentation • Clinical Buddying programme

  5. Benefits of Role • Expert service to provide good palliation to greater range of patients / families • Avoidance of hospital admission • Facilitating early discharge • Facilitating patient’s choice to die in preferred place of care • Patient’s choice about services

  6. Challenges of Role • Increasing referrals to service • Deliver on palliative care service improvement agenda to all • Increased expectations of service • Personal development • Emotionally demanding • Getting it all done!!!

  7. Conclusion • Continue to provide clinical expertise to patients, families and other professionals • Embrace on-going service improvements • Build on development of nurse-led clinics • Provide on-going education programmes

More Related