04 Dec 2024 13:00 - 16:00 Darnick Room, Education Centre, Borders General Hospital Free
An interactive workshop that supports Clinicians to talk about Future Care Planning informed by an understanding of “what matters” to individuals and their families. Participants will work in a small peer group and address communication challenges drawn from their own clinical practice and educational roles. Focus will be on initiating conversations about deteriorating health, people’s priorities and plans for future care such as hospital treatments options, further admissions, clinically assisted nutrition or hydration and CPR.
Open to all NHS Borders Clinical staff, if relevant to their practice. Please complete the online application form to register your interest.
We look at effective ways to help people think and plan ahead. Clinicians need to be able to talk about emergency treatment and care planning (e.g. Treatment Escalation Plans and ReSPECT), goals of care, and planning for care around dying, including DNACPR discussions.
The RED-MAP framework supports these conversations.
In this advanced clinical communication workshop participants will:
Darnick Room, Education Centre, Borders General Hospital
Date: 04 Dec 2024
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Michelle is a Palliative Care Nurse at Borders General Hospital. Working as a nurse in Palliative Care since 2004 has underpinned the fundamentals of Michelle’s communication skills. Seeing the importance of knowing how individuals communicate led Michelle to extend her skills through advancing her communication skills and delivering communication skills as a facilitator. NMC Pin is 98J0101S