e-ELCA Learning Path for Registered Nurses in Acute Hospitals Caring for Patients in the Last Days of Life (Additional sessions)
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- e-ELCA Learning Path for Registered Nurses in Acute Hospitals Caring for Patients in the Last Days of Life (Additional sessions)
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The aim of this learning path is to provide registered nurses working in acute hospitals with 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 and may result in the individual dying within the hospital or through ‘fast track’ processes to return to their usual place of residence to die. The informed support of staff working in the acute hospital is critical to enable these decisions and actions to be undertaken. The learning path may also be useful to doctors and allied health professionals.
The purpose is therefore to provide a resource to improve the acute care experience for dying patients and their families by enabling staff to:
- recognise at an appropriate time that someone is dying;
- have the confidence to deal with the needs of the individual and their families at this time;
- recognise and improve communication skills around end of life care;
- be aware of symptom management for the dying and what could be appropriate and available to prescribe. - Hierarchy:
- End of Life Care (e-ELCA) > e-ELCA learning paths: Professions > e-ELCA learning path: Registered nurses in acute hospitals caring for patients in the last days of life > e-ELCA Learning Path for Registered Nurses in Acute Hospitals Caring for Patients in the Last Days of Life (Additional sessions)
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- End of life care, Learning Path for Nurses, Mentor, Acute Hospital, Last Days of Life
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- 20 Sep 2017
- Updated:
- 20 Sep 2017
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- e-ELCA Learning Path for Registered Nurses in Acute Hospitals Caring for Patients in the Last Days of Life (Additional sessions)
- Description:
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The aim of this learning path is to provide registered nurses working in acute hospitals with 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 and may result in the individual dying within the hospital or through ‘fast track’ processes to return to their usual place of residence to die. The informed support of staff working in the acute hospital is critical to enable these decisions and actions to be undertaken. The learning path may also be useful to doctors and allied health professionals.
The purpose is therefore to provide a resource to improve the acute care experience for dying patients and their families by enabling staff to:
- recognise at an appropriate time that someone is dying;
- have the confidence to deal with the needs of the individual and their families at this time;
- recognise and improve communication skills around end of life care;
- be aware of symptom management for the dying and what could be appropriate and available to prescribe. - Hierarchy:
- End of Life Care (e-ELCA) > e-ELCA learning paths: Professions > e-ELCA learning path: Registered nurses in acute hospitals caring for patients in the last days of life > e-ELCA Learning Path for Registered Nurses in Acute Hospitals Caring for Patients in the Last Days of Life (Additional sessions)
- Keywords:
- End of life care, Learning Path for Nurses, Mentor, Acute Hospital, Last Days of Life
- Created:
- 20 Sep 2017
- Updated:
- 20 Sep 2017