Palliative Care for Carers 23/24

Target Group

This course is for all health care assistants working in nursing residential mental health Learning Disabilities settings and the START Team.

Aim

The aim of this course is: 
• To gain a better understanding of end of life and palliative care. 
• To gain confidence in having end of life conversations. 
• To understand the importance of a Good Death
• Understand the need for personal support and know where you can get support

Learning Objectives

By the end of the training participants will:
• Understand the difference between end of life and palliative care
• Have gained confidence in having difficult communication in relation to end of life planning   
• Be able to identify someone who is dying
• Be able to access support to enable residents to remain within the home to die
• Understand importance of symptom control