Illnesses Archives - PatchSA https://patchsa.org/category/illnesses/ People who care supporting people who care Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:39:41 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 Help for learners coping with grief and a new normal https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/ https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/#respond Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:01:00 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2989 24 March 2021 Earlier this month PatchSA Training Manager, Tracy Rawlins, spent a morning providing support to the matric students at St Monica's Diocesan Secondary School in Matatiele Last year Patch was approached by St Monica's Diocesan to talk to the Grade 12 class on Covid-19 and how it was affecting them and their final [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/feed/ 0 Patch Academy launched on International Childhood Cancer Day https://patchsa.org/patch-launches-online-education-platform-on-international-childhood-cancer-day/ https://patchsa.org/patch-launches-online-education-platform-on-international-childhood-cancer-day/#respond Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:00:23 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2675 Today, Monday 15 February 2021 is International Childhood Cancer Day. Benjamin Hawkes was just 10 years old when he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and over the next ten months he underwent chemotherapy, limb salvage surgery and radiation therapy. A clear PET scan at the end of this arduous treatment was cause for [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/patch-launches-online-education-platform-on-international-childhood-cancer-day/feed/ 0 Championing Palliative Care https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/ https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/#respond Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:29:18 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2595 PatchSA Ambassador, Huyaam Samuels, explains what receiving palliative care meant to her and how it improved the quality of her life.  As an individual living with a rare life-limiting condition, I realised how cruel specialists could be when presented with something they have never encountered or cannot physically see, such as chronic pain. I became [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/feed/ 0 The legacy of Florence Nightingale in a world dealing with COVID-19 https://patchsa.org/florence_nightingale_and_covid-19/ https://patchsa.org/florence_nightingale_and_covid-19/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:16:18 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2244 In this 2020 Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Joan Marston, professional nurse and vice Chair of PatchSA considers the valuable legacy of Florence Nightingale in a world dealing with COVID-19. When the World Health Assembly declared 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife in celebration of the 200th birthday of Florence [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/florence_nightingale_and_covid-19/feed/ 0 MedPal-CNN – a new app to teach healthcare professionals about paediatric palliative care https://patchsa.org/medpal-cnn_a_mobile_app_ppc/ https://patchsa.org/medpal-cnn_a_mobile_app_ppc/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:15:24 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1247 MedPal-CNN is an easy -to-use, educational mobile app designed to teach healthcare professionals about paediatric pallaitive care (PPC) and link them with existing evidence-based recommendations. MedPal CNN is a self-teaching tool intended for parents and professionals who care for patients who have already been diagnosed. The goal of MedPal-CNN is to guide health professionals and parents [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/medpal-cnn_a_mobile_app_ppc/feed/ 0 Press Release – PatchSA calls on government to implement the palliative care policy for children in need https://patchsa.org/press-release-patchsa-calls-on-government-to-implement-the-palliative-care-policy-for-children-in-need/ https://patchsa.org/press-release-patchsa-calls-on-government-to-implement-the-palliative-care-policy-for-children-in-need/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:47:42 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1256 PRESS RELEASE For children diagnosed with serious life-threatening and life-limiting illness in South Africa their families are usually shocked to discover there are so few services available to help them cope.  In 2014 South Africa was co-sponsor of a World Health Assembly Resolution calling on all member states to include palliative care within their health [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/press-release-patchsa-calls-on-government-to-implement-the-palliative-care-policy-for-children-in-need/feed/ 0 Sign the petition https://patchsa.org/sign-the-petition-patchsa-2019-declaration-of-childrens-right-to-palliative-care/ https://patchsa.org/sign-the-petition-patchsa-2019-declaration-of-childrens-right-to-palliative-care/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:17:49 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1249 PatchSA 2019 Declaration of Children's Right to Palliative Care You are called on to sign a Declaration Please can as many as possible sign the Declaration, to show support for the right of every child in South Africa to Palliative Care. Please forward to all your contacts so we get the maximum number of signatures. [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/sign-the-petition-patchsa-2019-declaration-of-childrens-right-to-palliative-care/feed/ 0 PatchSA 2019 Declaration Recommendations https://patchsa.org/patchsa-2019-declaration-recommendations/ https://patchsa.org/patchsa-2019-declaration-recommendations/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:07:42 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1215 APPENDIX HIGH LEVEL NATIONAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING FOR CHILDREN WITH SERIOUS ILLNESS – RECOMMENDATIONS ARISING FROM 18 MARCH 2019 MEETING The twenty (20) recommendations below have been grouped according to the WHO Public Health Model.  The Guiding Principles according to South Africa’s Constitution are then outlined and the 20 Recommendations are unpacked in detail on [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/patchsa-2019-declaration-recommendations/feed/ 1 Lessons in Love and Life from 12 Year Old Lola https://patchsa.org/lessons-in-love-and-life-from-12-year-old-lola/ https://patchsa.org/lessons-in-love-and-life-from-12-year-old-lola/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:02:36 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1219 Author: Moriah Ratner First Published in National Public Radio, March 31, 2019 http://Lessons in Love and Life from 12 Year Old Lola  

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]]> https://patchsa.org/lessons-in-love-and-life-from-12-year-old-lola/feed/ 0 ‘That Good Night’ Perfectly Explains How Palliative Care Differs From Hospice https://patchsa.org/that-good-night-perfectly-explains-how-palliative-care-differs-from-hospice-3/ https://patchsa.org/that-good-night-perfectly-explains-how-palliative-care-differs-from-hospice-3/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2019 17:41:01 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=1216 How Palliative Care Differs from Hospice By JUDY STONE “palliative care teams can and should see patients at ANY stage of their disease process, not just at the very end of their lives." "we likely would be better prioritizing quality of life rather than fighting the inevitability of death" I just wrote about my patient [...]

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