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Pharmacists in Paediatric Palliative Care: Pain Assessment, Holistic Management, and Multidisciplinary Practice
Overview
Course Description
The Ghana College of Pharmacists with support from World Child Cancer (WCC) and the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) has designed this continuing professional development (CPD) session specifically for practising pharmacists to strengthen their competence in paediatric palliative care, with emphasis on pain assessment and holistic management. While the session draws on input from a multidisciplinary team, the focus remains on how pharmacists translate these insights into safe, effective, and patient-centred pharmaceutical care.
What you will learn
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Apply principles of paediatric palliative care and the concept of total pain in pharmaceutical care planning.
2. Interpret pain assessment findings in infants and children to inform appropriate pharmacotherapy.
3. Design and optimise pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management strategies.
4. Demonstrate the pharmacist’s role in improving medication safety and outcomes within the multidisciplinary team.
Course Content
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About Facilitators
- 1 Course on CES
Dr. Mrs. Barbara Ossei Sekyere
MB ChB, MSc, PGPN, PG Dip, MGCPS, FGCPS
Head, Paediatric Palliative Care Unit
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Dr. Mrs. Barbara Ossei Sekyere is a Palliative Care Paediatrician with extensive experience in child health, paediatric oncology, and children’s palliative care.
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Issabella Hagar Ashong
BSc. Nursing
Registered Nurse
Issabella Hagar Ashong is a Registered Nurse with experience in patient care, wound management, medication administration, and paediatric palliative care.
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Pharm. Corquaye Oksana
MSc., MSc.
Senior Specialist Pharmacist
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH)
Pharm. Corquaye Oksana holds an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and an MSc in Pharmacy from Kharkov Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine. She is currently a Senior Specialist Pharmacist at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH).
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