Palliative Care

• Aid the advancement of hospice palliative care nursing through the promotion and facilitation of evidence-based nursing practice.
• Maintain and promote standards of care for palliative care nursing practice.
• Setup certification for palliative care nursing.
• Promote educational events directed at enhancing palliative care nursing practice that will close the gap between nursing education and nursing practice.
• Raise the profile of palliative care nursing within the nursing profession, allied health care fields, and with the general public.
• Promote effective communication at a national level among members of this specialty.
• Collaborate effectively with the interdisciplinary professions to enhance quality palliative care services in Singapore.
• Promote the development and maintenance of quality practice environments that facilitate the delivery of effective palliative care nursing.
• Develop strategies for building capacity for hospice palliative care nursing research in Singapore.
• Demonstrate leadership in palliative care nursing by advocating for quality care, interdisciplinary collaboration, effective communication, and by facilitating development of mentors and roles models. 
  
  

•       The logo comprises two colours.
•       Pink represents the Passion to promote and advocate the provision of quality palliative care nursing by the profession .
•       Blue represents serenity and dignity that the terminally ill patient experience at the final stage of their life.
•       The pink curve which symbolized the nursing profession embracing the blue block which symbolized the patient.
•       Together, the pink and the blue shapes make up the letter “P” to represent the Palliative Care Nursing in Singapore

Web Links:

Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network: http://www.aphn.org/

Cancer Nursing : http://www.cancernursing.org

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association : http://www.chpca.net/home.htm

Hong Kong Hospice Nurses Association: http://www.fmshk.com.hk/hkhna/index.htm

Hospice Information: http://www.hospiceinformation.info/links.asp

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association: http://www.hpna.org

Palliative Care Nurses Australia : http://www.pcna.org.au

Singapore Hospice Council: www.singaporehospice.org.sg

WHO Pain & Palliative Care Communication Program:

http://whocancerpain.wisc.edu/?q=node/10