Breaking Bad News
Consolidation Level
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education details
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Cost: See Dates and Enrol
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Level: Consolidation
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Delivery Mode: In person
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Duration: See Dates and Enrol
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Certificate: Yes
EDUCATION overview
This education is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the essential skills needed to deliver unexpected news regarding treatments or prognosis to patients and families in a compassionate and supportive manner.
Participants will gain practical communication strategies based on an evidence-based framework, enabling them to convey sensitive information with empathy, respect, and care. Throughout the program, the facilitator will lead discussions on real-life scenarios that participants commonly encounter in their work. These discussions will focus on applying communication skills to manage complex emotional responses effectively, ensuring that the news is delivered in a way that supports the patient and their family through difficult emotions.
By the end of the education, participants will be better prepared to approach these sensitive situations with confidence and compassion.
Participants will gain practical communication strategies based on an evidence-based framework, enabling them to convey sensitive information with empathy, respect, and care. Throughout the program, the facilitator will lead discussions on real-life scenarios that participants commonly encounter in their work. These discussions will focus on applying communication skills to manage complex emotional responses effectively, ensuring that the news is delivered in a way that supports the patient and their family through difficult emotions.
By the end of the education, participants will be better prepared to approach these sensitive situations with confidence and compassion.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Participants will learn to deliver bad news to patients and their patients with compassion and empathy.
- Throughout the education, learners will learn a structured framework for discussing difficult topics.
- Participants will gain an understanding of the emotional complexities involved delivering bad news, including bias, and learn tools that can assist the patient and family to process bad news.
- Learners will acquire knowledge about burnout and self-care by the end of the education.
education intended FOR
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner, Allied Health, Ambulance, Facility Manager, Medical Practitioner, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse, Nurse Assistant, Other.
