Nursing Center of Excellence in Palliative Care
for the Central Eastern European Region
Objective I
•
Improved access to quality PC for patients and families
throughout
:
– Developing a PC Information Centre for patients and families, which will run a website,
hold regular courses for carers, develop, publish and distribute brochures on simple
nursing intervention.
Objective II
•
Increased access to PC nursing training at undergraduate
level of education through
:
– Training of trainers (ToT) course for undergraduate teachers responsible for
PC modules in the public nursing colleges in Romania;
– Ongoing technical support and provision of best practices to trainees;
– Follow-up on the activity of the participants at the ToT course. Monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) of their performance between February and July 2015
Objective III
•
HCS - ensuring access to quality PC education and training of
profesionals at regional level
:
– Organizing 2 PC Leadership programs;
– Assisting participants coming from CEE countries with their own M&E and quality
improvement framework on the projects they applied at the leadership programe;
– Follow-up on the activity of the participants at the leadership programs through
monthly skype conferences between mentors and mentees for 12 months after the
residential course;
– M&E of their performance in advancing with their project proposals at 6 and 12
Objective IV
•
Increased access to PC nursing training at postgraduate level of
education throughout:
– ToT course for trainers associated to each National Order for Registered Nurses (NORN)
local branch, providing continual medical education (CME) to nurses of different
specialities;
– Ongoing technical support and provision of best practices to trainees;
– Follow-up on the activity of the participants at the ToT courses. Monitoring and evaluation
of their performance at 6 and 12 months after the course, through pre and post tests
applied to participants at the courses held by trainees.
– Creating a library in PC nursing, addressed to the nursing community, in order to provide
updated information and thus contribute to assuring continuum of care to cancer patients.
Objective V
• HCS - ensuring accesss to quality PC education and training
of professionals at national level:
– Develop training materials based on existing Level C curriculum;
– Roll-out specialty course in PC;
– Research the impact of professional competencies of nurses in PC specialized
services in Romania in order to establish at national level a plan of
professional development for these nurses and determine the need for more
specialized education for the delivery of high quality palliative nursing care.
Organization structure of the CoE
Hospice Casa Sperantei Education and National Development Dpt. CoE coordinator Palliative nursing trainers Sociologist nursing researcher Nursing researcher CoE project assistant Infocenter coordinator Services Dpt. Brasov BucharestHierarchy of goals and objectives
• Health outcomes
• Health equity
• Capacity building
• Community involvement and mobilization
• Sustainability and replication
Hierarchy of goals and objectives
Activities
Output/Outcome
Indicator/Target
When
Results
Source/Who
To improve the training capacity of teachers in undergraduate training schools for nurses
ToT (Train of Trainers) course for
undergraduate teachers responsible for PC modules
Improved knowledge and teaching methods in PC for teachers at undergraduate level nursing schools / Improved knowledge of nursing students in PC (indicator results at pre- and post-tests)
* No. of trained teachers ( targeted 30 persons) * No. of nursing students (targeted 650 nursing students)
*identification - October - november 2014 * ToT course - december 2014 *follow-up - February - Iuly 2015 (the module in PC is thought in the second semester)
For reporting
purposes only
*identification - project assistant (PA) *ToT course - Palliative Nursing trainers *follow-up - Palliative nursing trainers and PA *under the supervision of project manager (PM)
To setup a network of PC trainers, one in each county branch of the NORN (National Order for Registered Nurses), who deliver level A PC courses at postgraduate level of education
ToT course for trainers associated to each NORN local branch, providing CME (Continual Medical Education) to nurses of different specialities
CME, consisting of level A PC courses, available in the annual program of each local branch of NORN / Raising awareness of trained nurses in providing PC
* No. of nursing trainers in PC in each of the 41 local branches of NORN (targeted 41 persons) * No. of CME in PC every year(targeted 41)
*identification - August - September 2015 * ToT course - October 2015 *follow-up - November 2015 - September 2016 *identification - PA *ToT course - Palliative Nursing trainers *follow-up - Palliative nursing trainers and PA * supervision from PM
To raise awarness among patients and family members on selfcare supportive interventions
Develop a PC Information Center for patients and families
*selfcare curriculum *courses to patient support groups *website with information for patiens/ improved PC information and support for patients and relatives
* Training curriculum * One PC selfcare course organized every other month * produce and administer website
24 months of the project and beyound
*Coordinator of Patient and family Information Center * supervision and coordination from PM
Theme
GOALS
(What/Why)
Objectives
(How)
Activities
improved access to quality PC for patientsand families
