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Challenging
Conversations at End of Life
7-8
April and 16-17 September 2010, 9.30-16.30 Cost: £180
This
is a two day communication skills course which is aimed at qualified
professionals who regularly contribute to the management of care of people
approaching the end of life. For more information and booking form click
here
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:
Introductory Day
13
April 2010 9.30-16.00 Cost:£90
This
course is designed for clinicians involved in delivering end of life care
whatever the setting, who are involved in providing general emotional support
for patients and carers. These practitioners manage significant levels of
emotional distress and will already have experience of using basic communication
skills in order to establish supportive relationships with patients/carers. For
more information and booking form click
here
Getting Competent and Feeling
Confident: Skills development for activity
co-ordinators
21
April, 30 June and 17 November 2010, 10.00-13.00
£35 each or £90 if you book all
3.
These
three linked sessions aim to offer support, explore ideas and to continuously
develop the competencies needed in order to use a range of the arts including
painting, creative writing, music, photography and craftwork with people facing
life-limiting conditions including the elderly and those living with terminal
illness, including dementia. For more information and booking form click
here
Motor Neurone Disease: Finding
strategies that work in research and care
6
May 2010, 9.30-16.30 £100 (hosted at King's College Hospital)
The
aim of this year's MND conference is to review key findings from current
research and explore how they can inform effective and individual care planning.
We will discuss critically, acknowledging that a one size fits all approach is
not appropriate for the care of people with this complex disease. This one day
conference is a collaboration between St Christopher's Hospice and the MND Care
and Research Centre at King's College Hospital. For more information and booking
form click
here
Cancer and Palliative Care for
Complementary Therapists
3
June 2010, 9.30-16.00 £60
This
study day is aimed at qualified therapists (aromatherapy, massage, reflexology,
etc) who have an interest in, or are new to, this specialist area. Topics
covered will include: cancer and the cancer journey; current orthodox
treatments; impact upon the person; why me? and communication issues; adaptation
of complementary therapies and self-care for the therapist. For more information
and booking form click
here
Cross-Cultural Pratice with Families
in end of Life Care (part of the 2010 Cicely Saunders
Series)
10
June 2010, 9.30-16.00 £100
This
study day will address some of the dilemmas, conflicts and practical
difficulties encountered when working with families whose outlook on end of life
and death is based on a cultural heritage that poses challenges for the western
model of end of life care. For more information and booking form click
here
For details of the 2010 Cicely Saunders Series click here
Secondary Schools and Bereavement
24 June 2010, 9.30-16.00 £90
A day for secondary school based staff whose work brings them into contact with
bereaved children. We will cover the following topics: young people's
understanding of, and responses to, the terminal illness and death of a parent
or carer; bereavement reactions; other losses e.g. of siblings, of school
friends; what schools can do to help bereaved young people; dealing with crisis
and critical incidents in schools and resources available to support staff in
this work. For more information and booking form
click
here
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Advance Care Planning
8 Jul, 12 Oct 2010, 9.30-16.00 Cost: £50
This course will aim to teach the value of good communication skills in the
context of difficult and often distressing circumstances as well as giving
candidates an opportunity to see and practise the skills required. For more
details and booking form
click
here
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Education News
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End of Life Care Competencies
St Christopher's has produced a new practice development resource for those
delivering end of life care in non-specialist care settings. Designed for nurse
and social care managers, the 50 page competency workbook comes with a CD that
allows you to adapt and use selected elements to fit their own training and
development needs. To find out more
click here or to make an order email
Denise Brady at
d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk
End of Life Care
Journal
All nurses have to cope with death and dying and yet are not given the education
and support they need. This journal will provide nurses working in
hospitals, care homes and community settings with the evidence-based articles
and information so that they can give more effective care to dying patients and
their families/friends. For information and how to subscribe to End of Life Care
Journal
click here
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