Kaori Shimoinaba Palliative Care Nurses Australia Conference 2020

Kaori Shimoinaba

Kaori is a lecturer at Monash University Nursing and Midwifery. She teaches undergraduate nursing programs with communication and primary health care, postgraduate program with cultural competency. Kaori completed her PhD in 2011 with the topic of “Staff grief and support systems for Japanese health care professionals working in palliative care” and supported by NHMRC Postgraduate Public Health Scholarship and Japan Hospice Palliative Care Foundation. Research interests include palliative and end-of-life care, healthcare professionals’ grief and support, loss and grief, resilience, death education and death literacy, cultural competency and cross-cultural nursing education. Kaori also holds a counselling qualification in grief and bereavement care.