This is a distance learning course that is designed so that learners do much of their studying in their own time, although full support will be given by their assessor.

Learners will be required to attended 2.5 workshops which includes training delivery of awarness to Palliative Care and a lecture from a spiritualist.    

There are 4 units assessment modules to work through within a set time scale.

Unit 1-Understanding Palliative Care.

By achieving this unit, learners will have gained the knowledge and understanding of:-

-What palliative care and end of life means
-Identify where people can receive palliative care services and where these might be.
-Why palliative care is required
-Identify the barriers that sometimes exist to the provision of quality and end of life care
-Outline the support framework that exists for people with a life limiting illness and their families

Unit 2-Supporting a person's needs in a palliative care context 

By achieving this unit, learners will have gained the knowledge and understanding of:-

-Identify the various dimensions of pain, not just physical pain but "total pain"
-Identify the ways in which staff communicate effectively with dying people and their families
-Gain the knowledge on how people commonly react to "bad news" and how staff provide appropriate emotional support
-Identify how staff can support people with their social needs
-Identify how staff can meet a person's spiritual,religious and cultural needs.

Unit 3-Supporting a person with their physical care needs.

 By achieving this unit, learners will have gained the knowledge and understanding of:-

-Identify the main types of pain and outline the factors that affect our experience and reactions to it
-Be able to describe the basic principles of pain relief in palliative care
-Identify how staff can support people with other distressing symptoms
-Gain knowledge on the nature of cancer and the types of treatments that are commonly used
-How to support people with their personal care as they near the end of life

Unit 4- Care during the final hours of life and bereavement care

By achieving this unit, learners will have gained the knowledge and understanding of:-

-Supporting a person in their last hours or days of life
-Performing last offices, including those to do with religious faiths
-Explain the nature of loss and grief
-How to provide emotional,practical,informational and spiritual support to the bereaved
-How to come to terms with their own feeling of loss and grief     

Venue

Independent Training, Training Rooms situated at

68 Lansdown Crescent Lane, Cheltenham, GL50 2LD    

Cost

£250 Funding may be available please ask.

Contact

Jeanette White
01242 585975
info@independent-training.co.uk

To book the above course please click below or use the contact details above.