Palliative Care MOOC project videos have been created as educational resources that capture simulations of medical maneuvers, situational medical interventions, accompanied by specific medical communications, faithful to the elaborated palliative procedures.
By doing this it is expected that it will teach not only state of the art medical content and skills in various languages but also place the content in a variety of medical situations in which doctors and nurses communicate with patients or in which interdisciplinary team practitioners communicate among themselves in the national language or in a foreign language on palliative medical topics, specific to the elaborated procedures.
Performing urethrovesical catheterization (foley probe) in female patients
Performimg paracentesis
Subcutaneous automatic syringe perfusion
Transferring the patient from sustained dorsal decubitus to sustained lateral decubitus
Conspiracy of silence - handling collusion
Management of terminal phase
Communicating the diagnosis of severe illness (bad news)
Understanding patients suffering in the spiritual/religious domain and ways of coping and finding meaning and support through faith
Performing the bedridden patient’s nutrition
Perform daily hygiene of teeth, gums, mouth of incapacitated patients
Bed bath - washing a bedridden patient by using water and common soap
Pain Assessment - Measuring Pain In Conscious Adult Patients Using The Visual Analogue Scale
Prescribing pain medication according to the Who-pain ladder
Dealing with empathic reaction of overwhelming emotional exhaustion, feelings of ineffectiveness and self-doubt.
Discussion about end of life care (place of care, aggressive treatment, DNR)
Prevention pressure ulcer - repositioning
Evaluation of the patient awareness level of his/her disease
Mapping patient’s network
Addressing caregiver’s needs
