Clinical Skills Workshop: Te Ara Whakapiri

The clinical skills series is for Health Care Professionals and for care workers caring for clients either in Aged Residential Care, a General Hospital or community setting who have primary palliative care needs.

This education session provides learning which maintains and enhances knowledge, skills and practice around Te Ara Whakapiri - care in the last days of life.

In this presentation we will cover:

• The background to the development of Te Ara Whakapiri (TAW)
• TAW framework, principles and components to care
• Recognising dying
• Baseline assessment & and planning for care after death
• Anticipatory prescribed orders
• Initiating TAW

Target Audience: Health Care Professionals, Allied Health, Health Care Assistants & Support Workers

Date: Wednesday 22 April 2026

Time: 1600 - 1715

Cost: No charge

Presenter: Chris Dunn Clinical Nurse Educator, Nelson Tasman Hospice

Venue: Nelson Tasman Hospice, 331 Suffolk Road, Stoke, Nelson

*This workshop is also offered as a virtual session: Click here to register via TEAMS
* NB: To participate virtually, you will need to have Microsoft TEAMS on your device

For more information contact the Nelson Tasman Hospice Education Team:

Education Administrator: Barb Thomas

E: [email protected]

Phone: (03) 546 3950

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