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- Report on internship in palliative care South Adelaide palliative services : South AustraliaPublication . Ferreira, Diana Marques Barroso Honório; Swetenham, Catherine; Currow, DavidHaving acquired some knowledge in the palliative-care field over the last year, I felt the urgency for developing some practical skills. As such, contacts have been made and I enrolled in a 9-week internship in the South Adelaide Palliative Services (SAPS), in Adelaide, South Australia, from July to September 2014. I got to know a high-quality palliative-care service and develop activities like inpatients’ and outpatients’ assistance, consultancy and a research project. In my last week in Australia, I visited another palliative-care service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in order to compare different perspectives and ways of working. My main goal was to get the full experience of a highly specialised palliative-care service and because of that my schedule was rather flexible. I also wanted to develop skills in symptom management, communication, psychosocial approaches and research. All the activities developed were extremely productive and helped me to build some solid knowledge and ideas to apply in my daily work. Additionally, it helped me to see changes that can be made to improve the quality of care we provide to our patients. The research project concerning the issue of chronic refractory breathlessness has resulted in an article which is currently submitted for peer review to the “The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management”.
- Report on intership in palliative care Southern Adelaide Palliative Services (South Australia) & Unidade de Cuidados Continuados e Paliativos (Hospital da Luz, Lisboa)Publication . Pedroso, Ana Carolina Pimenta; Neto, Isabel GalriçaMy interest in Palliative Care culminated last year in the opportunity of two placements in national and international reference centers. The Unidade de Cuidados Continuados e Paliativos has received me for two months and Southern Adelaide Palliative Services for three. These experiences allowed me to apply on practice the theory learned before and to develop diverse competences, such as: symptomatic control, psychosocial and spiritual approaches, communication with end-of-live patients and their families. During this period, I’ve been immersed in such different health systems, with diverse models of care, that inspired me for me future practice. I’ve had also the opportunity to participate in a research project with CareSearch, which aims to understand the role of the new figure in end-of-life area – death doula – as well as the reasons and context that ended in their appearance. This work made me reflect about the way we care for our patients, opposing to the way they wish to be treated and all the repercussions that this question raises. The statistical analysis is currently being performed and I look forward to contributing to the published article from my work.