Françoise PORCHET,
born in 1950, married, 4 children


Pre- and post-graduate training:

Registered nurse basic training, Health Counselor Nursing Certificate, Nursing Educator’s diploma, University European Master in Palliative Care and Thanatology.
Various trainings in : education and human ressources management - coaching and team-building - massage, touch for Health and non-verbal communication - negociation and prevention of conflicts – post-traumatic debriefing


Involvement in the development of palliative care:

At the regional level :

- Responsible for the interdisciplinary post-graduate PC training, Service de la Formation Continue, in collaboration with the PC Division, CHUV, Lausanne

- Teaching about « Death in intensive care – grieving and separation “, within the intensive care training, CHUV

- Teaching about « Losses, grieving and separation”, within the specialist clinic nurse, CHUV

- Supervising and accompanying individual professionals or teams living crises situations

- Teaching in the basic training for future teachers and educators about “welcoming a severely ill child in my classroom –supporting a child whose parent or significant close person is severely ill – accompanying a child during a bereavement process – speaking about death at school.”


At the national level:

- member of the Swiss Society for Palliative Care since its creation (1988), committee member since 1995, vice-president since 1999, leader of its Education Group


At the international level:

- Member of the Organising Committee, 6th EAPC Congress, Geneva, 1999

- National coordinator for the Cross Sectional Survey, EAPC 2001

- Member of the Scientific Committee, 2nd European Congress of Research, Lyon 2002

- Member of the Scientific Committee, 3rd Congress on Pain, Marrakech, Marocco, 2002

- Member of the Advisory Board, 8th EAPC Congress, The Hagen, 2003


Skills domains (keywords)

Education, pedagogy, palliative care, communication, conflict management and negociation, team support, child and death, post-traumatic debriefing


Publications


- Depallens Y., Fucina N., Gay-Benson J., Hürlimann S., Pittet E., Porchet F.: Vivre après..., brochure à l’attention des personnes endeuillées, Ed. Ouverture, 1995 (rééditions 1998 et 2002)

- La formation en soins palliatifs, in Revue Médicale de la Suisse Romande, mars 1997, No 3, tome 117, p. 215-217.

- Porchet F., Salamin O. : Soins palliatifs, étude des offres de formation dans les cantons romands, 1997 - 1998, Sion, 1999

- L’enfant, le deuil et l’école. Ne laissez pas s’installer le silence ! in Soins infirmiers, 7/1999, p.67-69 et in Educateur Magazine, 7/1999, p.15-17.

- Formations en soins palliatifs : entre aspirations personnelles et compétences professionnelles. Examen de quelques formations de Suisse Romande 1999. Mémoire présenté pour l’obtention du master européen en soins palliatifs et thanatologie, IKB et AFXB, Sion, 1999.

- Porchet F. , Eychmüller S., Steiner N. : Formation en soins palliatifs, Projet de recommandations nationales, Groupe de travail Formation SSMSP, 2001

- Eychmüller S., Porchet F., Stiefel F., Von Wyss M. : Le Manifeste de Fribourg, Une stratégie nationale pour le développement des soins palliatifs en Suisse, 2001

- L’interdisciplinarité au service de la personne malade dans sa globalité : l’exemple des soins palliatifs. Le regard d’une infirmière, in Penser global en santé publique, un héritage de Charlotte Olivier, Ed. Fondation Charlotte Olivier, Fribourg, 2002.
- Porchet F. , Eychmüller S., Steiner N. : Formation en soins palliatifs. Recommandations nationales, Groupe de travail Formation SSMSP, 2002.


Contact :

Françoise Porchet, Vice-présidente SSMSP, Service de la Formation Continue CHUV, Mont-Paisible 16, CH – 1011 Lausanne. Tél. 021.314.18.64. Fax 021.314.18.28. E-mail: