Palliative Care Victoria

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Deborah O’Connor is the Health Promotion Officer for the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University.  She has worked in the field of Palliative Care in New South Wales for fifteen years, both in clinical and educational roles. Her role is to raise community awareness of end of life issues, to support palliative care services to develop appropriate and effective partnerships with community organisations and other healthcare agencies, and to contribute to palliative care and end of life policy.

Podcasts

Interview with Deborah O’Connor: Health Promotion – 7:40 minutes Podcasts – Download (for iPod, Media Players)Interview with Deborah O’Connor: Health Promotion – 7:40 minutes

	Peter is Clinical Director of Palliative Care for the Barwon South-West Region. He has academic appointments as a Clinical Associate Professor with Deakin and Melbourne medical schools. His research interests relate to the treatment of cancer cachexia syndrome, communication skills training and information and communication technology utilization, evaluation and design in clinical practice.
Podcasts
Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Breaking Bad News – 8:00 minutes Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Family Meetings – 7:45 minutes Podcasts – Download (for iPod, Media Players) Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Breaking Bad News – 8:00 minutes Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Family Meetings – 7:45 minutes

 

	Rod Harris has been CEO of MND Victoria since 1993. Prior to this he was a short time consultant in the disability field, CEO of ParaQuad Victoria, and a commonwealth public servant working in industrial relations. He has had an extensive involvement with Palliative Care Victoria as a member of the Board of Directors, and has always been a strong advocate for a well funded palliative care program that addresses unmet needs. He believes that ‘palliative care’ should always be referred to as a quality of life service, not an ‘end of life’ service.
Podcasts
Interview with Rod Harris: Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and palliative care – 06:16 minutes

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Interview with Rod Harris: Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and palliative care – 06:16 minutes

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	Dr David Brumley has been working in palliative care for the last 15 years. He lives in Ballarat and works as a palliative care physician in the Grampians Health Region of Western Victoria. His work interests include the development of palliative care in Asia and undergraduate teaching at the University of Melbourne. On days off, sailing, reading and music compete to fill the days.
Podcasts
Interview with Dr David Brumley: Back to basics: Starting and using morphine – 14:23 minutes Interview with Dr David Brumley: Management of Nausea in end stage disease – 9:45 minutesInterview with Dr David Brumley: Diagnosing Dying – 11:49 minutes
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Interview with Dr David Brumley: Back to basics: Starting and using morphine – 14:23 minutes Interview with Dr David Brumley: Management of Nausea in end stage disease – 9:45 minutes
Presentations
Back to basics: Starting and using morphineManagement of Nausea in end Stage diseaseDiagnosing Dying PowerPoint

 

	Molly is the Consortium Manager for the North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium. She has a clinical and leadership background in palliative care and regularly speaks about death and dying issues in the community, in the media and in the health and education sectors. Molly has embraced the use of the arts as a vehicle for empowering people to talk about death and grief in order to build informed, supportive communities.
Podcasts
Interview with Molly Carlile: Preparing families for an imminent death- 14:35 minutes Interview with Molly Carlile: Including children when a family member is dying- 13:54 minutes
Resources
“Jelly Bean’s Secret“, written by Molly, is a useful tool for adults to use when talking about death with kids.

 

	Peter is Clinical Director of Palliative Care for the Barwon South-West Region. He has academic appointments as a Clinical Associate Professor with Deakin and Melbourne medical schools. His research interests relate to the treatment of cancer cachexia syndrome, communication skills training and information and communication technology utilization, evaluation and design in clinical practice.
Podcasts
Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Anorexia / Cachexia Syndrome in Advanced Cancer – 12:25 minutes Interview with Dr Peter Martin: Breakthrough  Pain or Episodic Pain – 9:27 minutesInterview with Dr Peter Martin: Communication – 6:19 minutes
Presentations
Anorexia / Cachexia Syndrome in Advanced Cancer PowerPointBreakthrough  Pain or Episodic Pain PowerPointCommuication PowerPoint

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	Dr Jane Fischer is a palliative care specialist with more than 20 years experience in palliative care. She is the CEO/Medical Director at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, which is part of the Little Company of Mary Health Care, the largest non government provider of palliative care and currently is the Chair of Palliative Care Victoria.
Podcasts
Interview with Dr Jane Fischer: The Role of the Specialist Team – 8:09 minutes

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	Brian Le is a Palliative Care Physician and Medical Oncologist, and works as head of unit for the department of Palliative Care at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and at Melbourne Citymission Community Palliative Care Service.
Podcasts
Interview with Brian Le: An Introduction to Palliative Care – 13:32 minutes Interview with Brian Le: Palliative Care Communication at end of Life – 15:11 minutes

Stories from Ballarat Hospice

Each day our televisions, newspapers and advertisements are filled with messages reminding us to live well. But how often do we talk about dying well?
In Ballarat there is a group of men and women who devote their working lives to that conversation. They are the nurses, doctors and counsellors of the Ballarat Hospice.
Over five episodes their stories bring palliative care to light. The challenges it faces, the progress it has made and the opportunities it provides.
In this series we meet Counsellor Bill Weider, Nurse Sharon Moss, Doctor David Brumley. We also hear the stories of the patients and their families. Carers Gary and Margaret and patient Kim.

Episode 1: Kim and Gary

Episode 2: Bill Weidner

Episode 3: Margaret

Episode 4: Sharon Moss

Episode 5: Dr David Brumley

Our thanks to each of them and to ABC Journalist, Dashiel Lawrence.

Extending a Life Sentence: Living with an Incurable Disease

Mick Marcal was diagnosed with mesothelioma in August 1998, following earlier workplace exposure to asbestos. Being told he had six to eighteen months to live, he prepared to die, only to find that – twelve years later – he is still alive. Mick talks about living with limited time and what keeps him going.

Part A – Introductions by Dr Bruce Rumbold, Mr Rod Smith, Dr Colleen Nordstrom (10 mins.)

Part B – Mick talks about his formative years (9 mins)

Part C – Mick shares his experiences of living with an incurable illness and his insights (14 mins.)

Leading Clinical Practice: The Role of Clinical Mentoring in Education Delivery

Lesley Armstrong is a highly regarded trainer, coach and mentor. In this excellent presentation she discusses the goals and characteristics of effective mentoring relationships, including clinical mentoring, and how mentoring compares with supervision, coaching, teaching and leadership.

Podcast of the interactive presentation at the Palliative Care Victoria Educators’ Professional Development Seminar held on 19th October 2010.

Click here to download related resources.

Nurturing the Spirit During Palliative Care

Dr Bruce Rumbold is a senior lecturer with the La Trobe University Palliative Care Unit, a public health teaching and research unit that focuses on social and spiritual aspects of life threatening illness and public health approaches to developing compassionate communities.

What Lifts Your Spirits – a podcast for people facing a life threatening illness and their families (4 mins). Please be patient as it may take a few minutes to load.

Nurturing the Spirit within Palliative Care – a podcast for health professionals and volunteers caring for people facing a life threatening illness and their families (13 mins) Please be patient as it may take a few minutes to load.

Community Initiative Builds Capacity to Deal with Dying, Death & Bereavement

This podcast recounts a health promotion initiative that created a safe environment for members of a support group of people with end stage lung and heart disease to discuss end of life issues and to develop commemoration rituals that enabled them to honour members of their group when they died. Our thanks to Helen Corbett, Health Promotion Coordinator with the North and West Metro Region Palliative Care Consortium, Maureen Goodwin, Coordinator of the Austen Chronic Disease Management Program, based at Darebin Community Health Service, and members of the support group who kindly shared their experiences.

A Good Death in Aged Care

Diana Cooper, Project Officer, North East Valley Division of General Practice, recently gave this  presentation to the PCV Palliative Care in Aged Care Special Interest Group.  The goal of this action research Commonwealth funded project was to encourage practice change to enable a good death for residents and a positive experience for staff, doctors and nurses in fourteen aged care facilities in Victoria and South Australia.  The research findings confirmed the value of using pathway tools (in this case a modified version of the Liverpool Pathway prepared by Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative) in promoting consistency of care and anticipatory planning as people enter the end-of-life phase.  The research resulted in practice change. To view the power-point presentation click here.

Dementia Dialogues

Dr Fran McInerney, Professor of Aged Care at the Australian Catholic University and Mercy Health, gave this presentation on a 15 month project conducted in Victoria and Tasmania designed to enhance communication between the residential aged care staff and family members of people with moderate to severe dementia. The project included establishing a dementia-palliation resource nurse role, implementing staff and family education strategies, developing and trialling a discussion tool to facilitate collaborative engagement of care staff and family members in planning for the person’s care. This presentation was recorded at the Palliative Care Victoria Palliative Care in Aged Care Special Interest Group Meeting held on 24 November 2011. 

Listen to the podcast of her presentation (duration 64 mins):

Listen to the podcast of the question and answer session (duration 14 mins):

Download the power-point presentation here.