Pain Workshop
Pain is the most prevalent and distressing symptom associated with cancer. It's also a complex symptom that is difficult to assess and manage effectively. And while significant evidence and best practice guidelines exist, these have not resulted in a change in practice.
To address this gap, the de Souza Institute is designing and offering a Cancer Pain Management Workshop. The workshop will use a variety of learning approaches to explore evidence-based principles and strategies for assessing and managing pain related to cancer and its treatments.
Cancer Pain Management Workshops: Principles and Practice.
Objectives:By participating in these interactive cased-based workshops, nurses will:
- Explore and practice comprehensive approaches to cancer pain assessment
- Understand evidence-based pharmacological interventions to manage cancer pain and related symptoms
- Develop skill and confidence in communicating pain assessment findings with patients, families and other health professionals
Description:
de Souza Cancer Pain Management Workshops are tailored to meet the needs of nurses practising in different settings and work environments around the province. One and two-day workshops are offered.
One day workshops employ a combination of lecture- and interactive, case-based- styles intended to translate complex ideas about pain and related symptoms to practical and easy-to-understand practices.
In two-days workshops, day two builds on content explored on day one. Use of simulation with expert standardized patients provides a safe and fun way to "try out" new skills and ideas around assessment of pain, treatment-related adverse effects and complications, and challenging communication scenarios with patients, families and other health professionals.
For more information, please contact us at painnurse@desouzanurse.ca
- Thursday September 9, 2010 (1-day workshop):Haliburton Fish Hatchery, Gelert Road, Haliburton.
- Thursday November 11, 2010 (1-day workshop): Westdale United Church, 1500 Sherbrooke Street, Peterborough
Cost: Free of charge to all Ontario nurses who provide care for oncology patients in any setting and phase of the cancer care journey, regardless of practice role.
To register: To receive information when it becomes available, please complete the registration form here.
