A big thank you and congratulations to all those who completed our End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium two-day course last May 3 & 4, 2017. As always, thank you to our friends at Asian Hospital and the Asian Cancer Institute for inviting us to host this training with them.
For upcoming classes, visit our Leadership for HOPE training page.
Written by Niki Guloy
2015 Quality Index Overall Scores
RANK COUNTRY SCORE
1 UK 93.9
2 Australia 91.6
3 New Zealand 87.6
….
78 Philippines 15.3
79 Bangladesh 14.1
80 Iraq 12.5
In a 2015 quality of death study, the Philippines was named as the third worst place to die out of 80 countries, next to Iraq and Bangladesh.
Lack of awareness and training in relevant health care – along with insufficient national policy & medical bill subsidies – are some reasons why our country ranks so low.
These are also the reasons why The Ruth Foundation team works hard to improve the Filipino perspective on dying.
The truth is, palliative is not about dying a good death, but living the best life possible until the inevitable comes.
It is about time we talk about death with less fear and more hope.
Congratulations to all the nurses, doctors and members of St. Dominic Medical Center for completing the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium course held on April 11 at the St. Dominic College in Bacoor, Cavite. Thank you to our partners at St. Dominic for inviting us to host this training.
For course inquiries, email us at lfh@ruth.ph.
The Ruth Foundation gratefully thanks the Muntinlupa City Health Office for allowing us to host an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium course (the first for 2017) in their office last March 9 and 10. Over 40 nurses and government medical professionals from around the city learned the fundamentals of palliative care. Congratulations to those who successfully completed the course!
We thank the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) organization for honoring the work we do alongside the other members of the Asian Leadership Team with a 2016 ELNEC award.
The Asian team, composed of trainers from China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, received the award for “their exceptional commitment in teaching, promoting, disseminating, and implementing ELNEC.” One other international team and eight individuals received the award as well.
To quote a portion of the citation:
“In the Philippines, the Ruth Foundation for Palliative and Hospice Care (TRF) has been involved in organizing annual ELNEC-Core trainings from 2012-2016. Much of this work has been developed and overseen by Rumalie Corvera, MD and Ayda Nambayan, PhD, who have taught over 400 nurses. In 2016, the first ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care course was held with Dr. Nambayan as the core faculty consultant.”
Learn more about our palliative care education offerings and upcoming training at ruth.ph/LFH.
