Title:

e-ELCA Learning Path for Out of Hours Urgent Care Practitioners (Core sessions)

Description:

The aim of this learning path is to provide emergency care nurses, emergency care practitioners, Hospital/Hospice at Home nurses and other out of hours urgent care staff with a greater understanding and confidence when caring for individuals during the last days of life. This is usually expressed as the last 48 hours of life but can obviously vary. Many such patients may wish to die at home and do not wish for admission to hospital or a hospice, others may be discharged via ‘fast track’ processes being able to return to their usual place of residence to die.

The purpose is to provide a resource to deliver the following outcomes to improve the care experience for individuals and their families and enable out of hours urgent care staff to:
- have the confidence to deal with the needs of the individual and their families during the last days of life and support a patient’s preferences for care.
- understand and improve communication skills around end of life care

This learning path has the flexibility to slot into a general education programme for urgent care staff and comprises of nine core e-ELCA sessions to be undertaken by the learner prior to attending a suggested workshop session that lasts around two to three hours. Further e-ELCA sessions are also suggested, but are options to undertake either before or after the workshop depending on the learner’s interests and development needs.

Hierarchy:

End of Life Care (e-ELCA) > e-ELCA learning paths: Professions > e-ELCA learning path: Out of hours urgent care practitioners > e-ELCA Learning Path for Out of Hours Urgent Care Practitioners (Core sessions)

Keywords:

End of life care, Learning Path for Out of Hours Urgent Care Practitioners, Palliative Care, OOH

Created:

19 Sep 2017

Updated:

19 Sep 2017