Publicatie: Palliative care at home for young children in Africa: Training and support package

Auteurs: Professor Alan Stein, University of Oxford, Linda Richter, Human Research Council, South Africa, met the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa.

Dit Home-based Paediatric Palliative Care Training and Support Pakket (in het Engels) is ontwikkelend om community workers die families ondersteunen met de zorg voor zeer zieke, jonge kinderen, alsook de families zelf, te trainen.

Het onderliggende idee van het pakket is om het leren in de praktijk te faciliteren en ook om te bouwen aan de relaties en partnerschappen tussen professionals uit de zorg, community en home-based workers, families en andere verzorgers. Het trainingspakket bevat praktische begeleiding, technieken en tips. Uniek is dat het verhalen gebruikt om de training te faciliteren; voor elke belangrijke boodschap wordt een verhaal gebruikt om het gemakkelijker te kunnen begrijpen en onthouden. Het pakket kan dan ook op veel verschillende niveaus gebruikt worden

Het trainingspakket omvat de volgende onderdelen (in het Engels):

1. A Guide for Home-based Care Workers
Groups of home-based care workers will be trained on the content of the guide and how to deliver the course. They will, in turn, use the guide to develop their own training sessions as well as in their own field work.

2. A Training Manual for Home-based Care Workers
Home-based care workers trained as facilitators will use the training manual to train other groups of home-based care workers.

3. Caregiver’s Toolkit
Once trained, home-based care workers will be able to provide caregivers at home with copies of the toolkit. The home-based care workers will use their own guide and training manual to make the caregivers familiar with the toolkit.

4. Helpful Handouts
The handouts contain important information and they are provided to home-based care workers who can give them to families to keep when they visit them in their homes.

5. Information for managers and administrators
This information sheet is useful for managers and administrators who work with home-based care workers to understand what the course is about and what one can learn from it.

6. Evaluation of basic competencies
Managers and administrators can use this evaluation sheet to ensure that home-based care workers are fully competent in understanding the course.

7. Training and support certificates for caregivers, home-based care workers and trainers.
Home-based care workers and caregivers will receive course cerficates to demonstrate the competencies gained in the various knowledge and skills areas included in this course.

Click here to download the main cover and introduction for the whole package.