Rachel House offers quality education programs, practical training and mentoring for health professionals across a variety of patient care settings. Improving knowledge and understanding of palliative care enables healthcare professionals to meet the challenge of identifying and providing safe and appropriate care to those with life limiting conditions.
Rachel House works closely with organisations and professionals that provide services to patient’s whose lives are threatened by an illness. This includes national and district hospitals, puskesmas and university nursing schools.
Training is provided through the collective knowledge and experience of leaders and specialists in the field including the Rachel House senior Registered Nurses, local Indonesia palliative care specialists, and visiting palliative care experts from Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, and South Africa.
Through Rachel House training programs, health professionals can expect to learn about:
- Pain and symptom management
- Psychosocial support
- Spiritual support
- Financial support
- Ethics and the law
- Communication and collaboration
- Pediatric vs. adult palliative care
- HIV AIDS and cancer
If you are interested to learn more about our training please contact us at [email protected] or +6221 5365 2197.
Current training initiatives include:
Palliative Care Seminars
Rachel House regularly facilitates seminars with the main aim of providing a basic introduction to Palliative Care. International guest speakers frequent these seminars, sharing their expertise and providing tips on practical ways to manage pain and associated symptoms in facilities where specialist services and trained clinicians in palliative care programs may not yet be established.
Clinic-in-a-Box
As part of Rachel House’s vision to develop a world-class palliative care ecosystem in Indonesia, a program was launched to train a new generation of nurses in palliative care skills, along with home care skills, financial literacy and knowledge of business management.
Through the Clinic-in-a-Box training program, Rachel House hopes that good and compassionate care can be available and accessible by many more in Indonesia.
One of the courses under the Clinic-in-a-Box program is a 6-week comprehensive palliative care course offered in collaboration with nursing faculties at major universities in Indonesia to train Registered Nurses in:
- Impeccable assessment skills
- Effective pain and symptom management
- Communication skills within a multi-disciplinary team and holistic framework
- Home-based palliative nursing care
- Ethics in palliative care
- Business management skills (for facilitating community clinics)
There are also short courses providing Introductory, Intermediate, and Advance Palliative Care courses for medical professionals from public and private hospitals across Indonesia.
The Clinic-in-a-Box courses focus heavily on practical training in order to provide participants with the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and attitude required to provide quality palliative care to patients. The Program is supported by leading palliative care experts from all over the world, Rachel House’s specialist palliative care-trained nurses, palliative care physicians and university lecturers throughout Indonesia.
Hospital Training
In the hope of making palliative care available throughout the health system, Rachel House offers palliative care training and education programs complete with practical and hands-on learning and mentoring for medical professionals in the hospital setting.
In February 2015, in collaboration with Singapore International Foundation (“SIF”) and National Cancer Foundation (YayasanKanker Indonesia or YKI), a 3-year palliative care training program for medical professionals was launched. Participants of the training include a multidisciplinary group of medical professionals (adult & pediatric) and allied health professionals from 5 national referral hospitals and 7 district hospitals in Jakarta. Through the collective knowledge and experience of the trainers who are leaders and specialists in palliative care, the participants are expected to learn, amongst others:
- Effective pain and symptom management
- Communication skills
- Psychosocial & spiritual support
- Ethics and the law