The View From Here: Skills in Dementia Care for Acute Settings
Develop the knowledge and practice skills needed to care for people with dementia in hospitals.
Online course
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TierFoundational
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Completion time6 hrs 45 mins
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Course duration9 weeks
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Certificate of completion
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CostFree for Australian workers
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Course Overview
About this Course
This course was designed to help nurses and other health professionals understand the care experience from the viewpoint of the person living with dementia.Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, staff should be able to:
- Explain the neuropsychological basis for changed behaviour.
- Identify how dementia-related damage to cortical structures may impact patient behaviour.
- Identify the symptoms of delirium and how they compare with dementia and may overlay those of dementia.
- Explain how applying the principles of person-centred care (PCC) can improve the quality of care for people with dementia.
- Describe the communication changes associated with dementia and strategies to facilitate communication and enhance understanding for the person with dementia.
- Describe information gathering techniques and simple bedside tests about the patient’s personal history and current functional status that can assist in providing care.
- Explain pain and pain assessment in the context of dementia and recognise the links between pain and changed behaviour.
- Identify methods to select suitable activities to meaningfully engage a person with dementia while in hospital, as a key therapeutic care intervention.
- Identify psychosocial and physical factors in the hospital environment that could be changed using environmental design principles to improve the wellbeing and quality of care of people with dementia.
- Describe how to observe, assess and document function and behaviour in the acute care setting over time.
- Describe how to plan care and implement evidence-based strategies (non-pharmacological and pharmacological) that will lead to optimal care for patients with any form of cognitive impairment.
Modules
Communication Strategies (Acute)
Approaches to Pain Assessment
Activities for the Inpatient Setting
Care Planning and Interventions
Course Details
Continuing Professional Development
Completion of this course provides 6 hours of continuing professional development. A Certificate of Completion is awarded upon successful completion.
Acknowledgements
Dementia Training Australia is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund.
This online course was developed by the team at the Queensland University of Technology.
The View from Here online course was developed by Frederick Graham, Metro South Health, and Sandra Jeavons, Elizabeth Miles and Prof Elizabeth Beattie, Dementia Training Australia. It is based on a face-to-face education program of the same name previously developed by Kate Nayton with the Queensland Dementia Training Study Centre. The View from Here has been reviewed by clinicians and academics with expertise in dementia care in acute care settings, delirium management and learning design.
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- Increase your knowledge of dementia
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- Real life examples to help you put knowledge into practice
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Version history
- Published: 16 Nov 2019
- Updated: 06 Nov 2024
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