Community Home-Based Palliative Care Introduction Course (PHBC)

About the course:

This course is designed to enhance skills:

• General hygiene in the home.
• Bed bathing, bed making and making sure the patient is comfortable at all times.
• Mouth care and proper cleaning procedures.
• Prevention of bedsores by regular massage of body parts and changing positions.
• Temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure (BP).
• Basic nutrition and education to family members about what to feed the patient.
• Care of the dying, preparation of the family and patients, unfinished matters.
• Professional communication as opposed to social communication.
• Patient rights and dignity.
• Palliative care to persons with life-threatening illnesses; includes symptom management, pain control, medication management and much more.

Assessments and tests will be written, and a certificate will be issued upon completion.