What is Caru? Caru is a free five-year, multi-stranded, evidence-based continuous learning programme. It is available to all disciplines of nursing home staff and those working in Older Person Services. What is the vision for Caru in your organisation? An organisation that is supportive and empowering of all nursing home staff in their delivery of palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care to residents and families. Caru supports the ethos of person-centred, compassionate and empathic palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care.
What are the Caru Workshops? Workshop One: Person-Centred Approach to Palliative Care
This Workshop examines the importance of a person-centred approach to palliative care, end-of-life, and bereavement care in the nursing home. We will help you identify the end- of-life values of your organisation and how these impact on the care delivered. We review the levels of palliative care and identify which are appropriate to your organisation. We will also outline how to communicate effectively in palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care conversations, with a special focus on the importance of advance care planning. Workshop Two: The Caru Reflection This Workshop looks more in-depth at the impact of working with residents and families at end of life. We discuss bereavement in a personal and professional context, the importance of reflection and resilience, and identify self-care strategies for you and your team. This Workshop will also train Caru Leads to complete the Caru Review Process. You will learn how to facilitate a Caru Reflection as well as the steps in forwarding a Bereaved Relatives and Friends Questionnaire. Workshop Three: The Caru Review Process and its Role in Change In the final Workshop, we examine how learning from the Caru Reflection can identify opportunities for sustained change in your organisation. As a group, we discuss how to prepare for change, how to overcome the barriers in implementing change and how to design, deliver, and evaluate a successful quality improvement initiative. This Workshop has practical exercises within it to ensure Caru Leads leave feeling confident embedding the process within your own nursing home.
All Workshops have NMBI accreditation and certificates will be provided. On completion of all three Workshops the nursing home will receive a certificate of achievement award.
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