Palliative Care Unit 

The Palliative Care Unit provides holistic, patient and carer centred care for patients with an incurable illness.  The multi-disciplinary team aims to relieve pain and other physical symptoms.  Care focuses on the physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs arising for patients and carers during the illness and also in the dying process.  The aim of care will be to maximise quality of life whilst maintaining respect for each patient’s unique cultural and social situation. Care will be provided in a multi-disciplinary team, working co-operatively with other health professionals in order to provide continuity of care across all settings in which palliative patients are managed.

As a Graduate Nurse working in the specialist area of Palliative Care you are given a unique opportunity to nurse patients in the dying process.

The Palliative Care setting offers the Graduate Nurse experience with the care and support of palliative care patients, including symptom control, psychosocial and cultural issues, management of pain, syringe drivers, specialist medications, death and dying, and loss and grieving.

The rotation offers clinical and theoretical support to enhance skill development.  Study days are tailored to each individual Graduate Nurses learning needs.  A dedicated preceptor assists with the development of appropriate learning needs and objectives.

This is an opportunity for the Graduate Nurses who wish to broaden their clinical nursing skills in a palliative care setting.  The Palliative Care Unit rotation provides Graduate Nurses with a diversity of nursing care experiences to enable Graduate Nurses to develop a personalised approach to patient care.