ZPalliative Care for Carers - 22/23

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 have:

• Understand the difference between end of life and palliative care
• Gain confidence in having difficult communication in relation to end of life planning   
• Able to identify someone who is dying
• Able to access support to enable residents to remain within the home to die
• Understand the importance of symptom control