This is an essential tool for all staff who support individuals with palliative and end of life care, it explores the essential principles of end of life care and is mapped over to the “common core principles” for end of life care as described by skills for care.
3hrs
The trainer will carry out an on-going assessment.
All delegates will receive a certificate of attendance.
The course can be delivered at locations to suit the client or at one of our training venues.
End of life, or palliative care is one of the most important and sensitive roles in healthcare. It takes a special skill set to offer palliative care, with attention having to be paid to a range of physical and emotional issues.
End of life care aims to help if you have a life-limiting or life-threatening illness. The focus of palliative care is to manage symptoms, to reduce pain and offer assistance and comfort. The aim is to make someone’s final months, weeks and days as comfortable as possible. As well as looking after physical and medical needs, it means taking care of the emotional, spiritual and social needs as well. This makes it a challenging, but incredibly rewarding role. It’s also one that needs proper training and preparation to be done well.
You don’t need to be a palliative care specialist to benefit from end of life care training. In fact, anyone who works in a care setting where people face the end of life should have some grounding in how best to provide palliative care. This might be care workers in care home settings, staff at a local health centre or clinic, people in religious/spiritual roles, people working for local government agencies and other medical professionals. Anyone who has care for any aspect of a terminally ill person’s well-being would benefit from end of life care training.
Training can help the professional face the challenges of dying patients, enabling them to better deal with the emotional challenges that it presents. It can give carers and other professionals the skills they need to be able to properly support the family and other loved ones of the dying patients.
At Embark Learning we offer a comprehensive End of Life Training course. It will help the caring professional understand the importance of person-centred working in end of life care, and how to work in partnership to ensure good end of life care. Assessment is by the course trainer and attendees will receive a certificate.
Why not contact us to find out more about our end of life training, short courses and online training?
