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Why Me? – Exploring Spirituality and Meaning

Facilitators:
Judie Horrocks, Spiritual Care Co-ordinator, St Ann’s Hospice
Lynn Smith, Supportive Care Keyworker, Neil Cliffe Cancer Care Centre

Course Outline:
NICE Guidance on Supportive and Palliative Care (2004) highlights the need for appropriate spiritual support for both patients and their carers. Research evidence shows that in clinical practice spirituality is often a neglected area, and therefore many patients’ spiritual needs go unmet. This 2-day course aims to improve health and social care practitioners’ awareness and understanding of spirituality and equip them with the skills and confidence to offer more effective spiritual care.

Target Audience:
All health and social care professionals

Dates: 28th Feb and 13th March 2008

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)

Social Problem- Solving Therapy – a technique for helping patients and carers to manage challenge

Facilitators:
Bill Bodell, Psychological Support Nurse,
St Ann’s Hospice

Course Outline:
This 1-day course offers participants the opportunity to learn an effective technique that can be used in their practice to help patients and carers to manage the psychological impact of their disease. The approach used is Social Problem-Solving, a technique grounded in the Cognitive Behavioural Approach to therapy.

Target Audiences:
District Nurses
Day Care nurses working within a Hospice
Macmillan/Specialist Palliative
Care Nurses

Dates: 26th September

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £60 (including a light lunch)

Pain Management in Palliative Care

Facilitators:
Carole Mula, Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care, Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester NHS PCT
Sue Tozer, Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist, Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Richard Berman, Consultant in Palliative Care, Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and North Manchester General Hospital

Course Outline:
The 2-day course covers all aspects of pain management, including assessment, understanding different types of pain, safe prescribing, the use of syringe drivers and non-pharmacological interventions.

The course has been highly evaluated by previous attendees, so book early to secure your place

Target Audience: All healthcare professionals.

Dates: 10th and 11th November 2008

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)

Loss and Grief for Busy Professionals

Facilitators:
John Silkstone; Pat Menzies

Course Outline:
Whatever their specialty, health and social care professional will find themselves dealing with issues of grief and loss. This 2-day course aims to explore current thinking about grief and loss and to enable workers to feel equipped to deal with these situations. The course will provide a grounding in the theoretical models, bolstered with experiential work using participants’ existing knowledge and experience.

Target Audience:
All health and social care staff

Dates: 18th March & 1st April 2008

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)

Body Image Disturbance as a Consequence of Having a Life Threatening Illness or Treatment

Facilitators:
Bill Bodell, Psychological Support Nurse,
St Ann’s Hospice, and
Ann Thurston, Community Services Manager, St Ann’s Hospice, Little Hulton

Course Outline:
Body Image Disturbance (BID) often provokes distress in patients who may experience shame, guilt, humiliation and feelings of anxiety and loss. Commonly patients report feeling that people are negatively evaluating them, or they may be disparaging of themselves, or they may experience both. This 2-day course offers participants the opportunity to understand the context of BID in palliative care, general principles in its management, and some specific techniques to reduce patient distress.

Target Audience:
All Healthcare Professionals

Dates: 17th & 18th April 2008

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)

Infection Control for link practitioners in hospices/ palliative care

Facilitator:
Rick Catlin, Infection Control Link Nurse

Course Outline:
This 2-day course has been developed in order to support and empower infection control link nurses, working within a hospice setting to deliver the infection control agenda in their hospice in conjunction with their local infection control team. The course will enable practitioners to identify and challenge bad practices in their hospice; undertake risk assessments so that infection precautions reduce risk as practicable without compromising their palliative care; and help link nurses and their hospices reach compliance with Essential Steps for safe, clean care. The 4 following key areas will be addressed:

• Foundations of infection control
• Communication skills
• Change management
• Managing infections

Target Audience:
Hospice infection control link nurses

Dates: 4th June & 2nd July 2008
Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green
Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)

Management skills for Complementary Therapy Co-ordinators / Service Managers

Facilitators:
Ann Carter, Complementary
Therapy Co-ordinator, St.Ann’s Hospice
Jan Codling, Head of Clinical Governance, St Ann’s Hospice

Course Outline:
This 2-day course focuses on management skills for complementary therapy co-ordinators /service managers.

The content will include; self esteem and values (both your own and those of the organisation), handling difficult situations, e.g. poor performance, anger, distress and frustration, political awareness, forward planning, making policies work for you, setting standards, evaluating your policies and your complementary therapy service.

Target Audience:
Therapists with a lead role
Complementary Therapy Co-ordinators in Hospices
Service Managers in Hospices with responsibility for complementary therapies

Dates: 5th and 6th June 2008

Venue: Seminar Suite, Heald Green

Cost: £95 (including a light lunch)