Palliative Care Services for Teenagers & Young Adults Claire - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Palliative Care Services for Teenagers & Young Adults Claire - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Palliative Care Services for Teenagers & Young Adults Claire Pendlebury Lead Nurse TYA Team STH Claire.pendlebury@sth.nhs.uk @clairenurse9 Aims of our session National Picture Local Services Challenges of delivering
Aims of our session
- National Picture
- Local Services
- Challenges of delivering palliative care for TYA
- Skills & opportunities
- Relationship with TYA Team and other Healthcare Teams
- Looking after yourself
Resources TYA Service Specification (NHS England 2019) Children’s & Young Peoples Palliative Care Service Model (NHS England 2019) Palliative & End of Life Care for children & young people (Anne Grinyer 2012) Palliative Care for Young People Aged 13-24 (Rosemary Thornes 2001)
What is important to young people?
Relationships, sexuality and identity, friends, peer group approval, aspirations, education, work, risk taking behaviour, creativity, social interaction. Readjustment of relationships and social interactions Unpredictability and inconsistency are normal – no two days, hours or minutes are the same.
Community (Sheffield) Palliative Care Pathway 16 & 17 year old
Story IE 17 years
Learning Points
Financial considerations Sustainability Response of teams Changes in practice (syringe drivers) If it happened tomorrow…
Teams Challenges
Capacity of teams Prioritisation of services Different practices & processes Expertise & confidence Funding Communication
Palliative diagnosis
TYA CNS Needs
Physical, meds, symptom control , personal care, nutrition. Psychological, emotional, family and friends. TYA specific (behaviour & development) Support of the care delivery team.
GP
Night team POON’s CCN
DN
BBW
Claire Pendlebury TYA Lead Nurse STH May 2019
What worked well
Goodwill & Can do attitude Flexibility Excellent communication Weekly MDT’s Key Worker & Flexible Leader Accessibility of team members Assess, review, adapt model
Med Onc Pharmacy TYA CNS Community pharmacy
Paed Onc.
Future Planning
Patient voice Advance care planning BBW – Family support Value of each team member