Overview
This course teaches the skills required to deliver in-house Awareness workshops on End of Life Care. The workshops provide the opportunity to develop an Awareness of how to support an individual who is at the end of their life. Due to the increasing age of service users with learning disabilities and mental health issues, many employees are now supporting individuals who are approaching the end of their life. Without training, staff often feel inadequate, fearful and are unable to support the service user or their family members at this time of great need.
Course Outline
Covered Topics:
- End of life care strategy.
- Attitudes and fears about death and dying.
- Good and bad experiences of death and dying.
- Advanced care planning.
- Symptom management.
- Advance directives.
- Roles and responsibilities in end of life care.
- Last offices.
- Grief and loss.
Train the Trainer Elements:
- Teaching methods and learning styles.
- How individuals learn and keep information.
- Feeding back productively.
- Evaluating.
- Icebreakers.
- Presenting information.
- ‘Do’s and don’ts’.
Course Assessment
The End Of Life Train the Trainer course takes 1 day to complete. Delegates will be expected to engage in several involved group activities and, during the teaching part, will be evaluated on their knowledge and ability to train others.
Cost
Our courses are competitively priced and we aim to beat any equivalent training quote.
Important Information
- We will come to you to undertake the training.
- The training environment will need to be quiet and undisturbed.
- Staff will need to give the course their full attention and should not be on duty.
- Staff attending should be present for the whole session.
