Increasingly health care assistants and senior carers are at the forefront of delivering end of life care.
This new course is aimed at developing knowledge and skills integral to the delivery of high quality end of life care. It is underpinned by the new end of life care competencies and is being facilitated by our clinical and educational experts
Course content includes:
Communication skills
- Effective communication with the individual and heir family
- Dealing with issues related to loss
- Responding to strong emotions
Understanding symptoms, maintaining comfort and wellbeing
- Identifying the dying process
- Understand common symptoms experienced at end of life
- Recognise own role responsibilities within the team
- Assessing nursing care needs
Best practice in end of life care
- Identifying tools that can enhance end of life care
- Advance Care Planning
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Core principles of end of life care
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