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Webinar: Managing Pain: A Comprehensive Collaborative Approach in Residential Aged Care Facilities

Wed 7th June 2023 @ 8:00 am

Sydney North Health Network (SNHN) invites local GPs, Nurses, Residential Aged Care Facility Staff, Allied Health Professionals and their relevant staff to a one hour breakfast webinar addressing the issue of pain in the frail RACF resident.

The webinar will include assessing and recognising pain in the cognitively impaired (including the use of non-verbal pain scales), safe and appropriate prescribing in the frail and elderly, managing pain at the very end of life and opioid conversion principals.

Home visiting physiotherapist, Seyed Majlessi, will discuss the new model of addressing persistent pain and the collaboration needed for successful outcomes.

We will also touch on what to look out for to reduce medication misadventures and miscommunication during patient transfers, particularily betwen hospital and the RACF.

DATE:
Wed 7th June 2023


TIME:
8:00 am - 9:00 am


SPEAKERS:

Professor Katherine Clark | Clinical Director of Palliative Care, NSLHD
Professor Clark is the current Clinical Director for Northern Sydney Local Health District. Katy is a Palliative Care physician who has worked as a clinician, manager, teacher and researcher in palliative care.

Dr Sara Qayyum | Palliative Care Physician

Seyed Faraz Majlessi | Physiotherapist

Faraz Majlessi is an APA Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and clinical educator. He founded MoveImprove Performance, providing specialized physiotherapy, exercise physiology, and acupuncture to seniors in their own homes. Faraz’s expertise lies in persistent pain management for the elderly. He has a passion for improving seniors’ quality of life and employs a holistic model of care that is less commonly practiced in Australia.

Palliative Aged Care Supportive Service (PACSS)

  • Kelly Arthurs, Transitional Nurse Practitioner
  • Alyssa Kim, Transitional Nurse Practitioner
  • Sushila Khadka, Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care

 

TARGET AUDIENCE:
  • Residential Aged Care Facility Staff
  • General Practitioners
  • NSLHD staff
  • Nurses
  • Allied Health Professionals
  • Pharmacists

Working in the Sydney North Health Network region.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
  • Assess, recognise and respond to pain in the cognitively impaired patient (including the use of non-verbal pain scales)
  • Formulate safe and appropriate prescribing in the frail and elderly patients
  • Implement pain management at the very end of life
  • Examing opioid conversion principals including different formulations, strength and routes of administration
  • Discuss new strategies to manage chronic pain


ENQUIRIES:

Judy or Robi, Education Coordinators – 9432 8250 or events@snhn.org.au.



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