An innovation in end of life care education.
This exciting education initiative has caught the imagination of so many and is potentially so easy to deliver. The joy of the QELCA© programme is its flexibility.
We are accredited with St Christopher’s Hospice to provide this training locally to support practitioners to provide Quality End of Life Care.
The QELCA programme aims to increase knowledge of the principles and practice of palliative/end of life care for registered nurses caring for residents, patients and families at end of life in the care home and hospital settings.
QELCA involves a 5 day course attended at Strathcarron hospice. Training is delivered to small groups of up to 6 at the most. Each participant will then be expected to attend 6 monthly action learning sets thereafter to facilitate the process of embedding learning into practice.
The week course of the QELCA© programme will involve a facilitator working with the small group of nurses on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday and to spend Tuesday and Thursday in the hospice in a supernumerary capacity alongside hospice staff for a working shift.
In 2016/2017, we will be running QELCA on the following dates:
12th – 16th December 2016
20th – 24th February 2017
Places are limited, and will be allocated on a first come first served
For further information please do not hesitate to contact Jackie Higgins, Practice Educator Jackie.higgins2@nhs.net or Dr Sally Boa, Head of Education, Research and Practice Development sally.boa@nhs.net
