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Certificate of Achievement

Heidi Ripplinger

has completed the following course:

Compassionate Care: Getting it Right

University of Dundee and SISCC

This online course explored compassion in health and social care, using improvement science techniques to share practical tools for improving person-centred practice. It covered topics including compassionate care in the media, humanising care, caring conversations and leading compassionate care.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Dr Elaine Lee

Associate Dean International

University of Dundee

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Explore the reasons for and consequences of care that is not compassionate
  • Describe compassionate care and observe how this is articulated in the real world
  • Debate the factors that motivate compassionate care
  • Identify attributes to develop in practice for improving care provision
  • Discuss the nature of leading and influencing compassionate care
  • Describe the concepts of relationship-centred practice and humanising healthcare
  • Apply behaviour change techniques to help change how care is provided

Syllabus

Week 1 - What is compassionate care? - how do you develop relationship-centred practice? The 7C’s of caring conversations

Week 2 - Practising compassion every day - how do you design a compassionate environment, gathering input from service users, person-centred end-of-life care and practicing self-care

Week 3 - Creating a compassionate culture - perspectives on leadership, challenging conversations in a care setting, practical approaches to encourage compassionate care

Issued on 23rd September 2019

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Free online course:

Compassionate Care: Getting it Right

University of Dundee