Healthcare Skills
Medications Management:
Principles of medications management
Legal setting
HIQA standards guiding medications management
The 5 rights of medications management
Checking
Drug rounds
Calculations
Special considerations
Care Planning and documentation:
Legal and professional requirements for developing person centered care plans
HIQA and Nursing board standards and requirements
Principles of care planning and documentation
Assessments and person centered care planning
How to audit care plans
Practical application and problem solving workshop
Fall Prevention ( 5.5 CEUs )
HIQA standards
Statistics from WHO (World Health Organization)
Reasons why people fall
Risk assessment
Strategies for fall prevention
Restraint:
HIQA standards and HSE policy on use of restraint in Healthcare setting
Legal setting
Forms of restraint
Assessment and documentation
Alternative strategies
End of Life Care:
In accordance with HIQA thematic inspections- outcome no. 14
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Philosophy of Palliative Care
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Life limiting conditions
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Pain and other symptom's
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As death approaches
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Final Offices
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Bereavement support
In accordance with HIQA thematic inspection 2015
- Dementia Disease Process
- Strategies for Caring for the Person with Dementia
- Communication and Understanding Challenging Behavior
- Social Needs and Activities
- Eating Well
- Reducing Pain
- Falls
- Wandering/ Restrain free care
- End-of-Life Care