Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Neurological Disorders: How to Provide Care
UEA (University of East Anglia)
This online course was designed to give the skills and confidence needed to provide care for people with neurological diseases as a family caregiver or health professional.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Steve Smith
Associate Professor
UEA (University of East Anglia)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Understand fundamental brain anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology relating to common long-term and degenerative neurological disorders.
- Reflect upon the perspectives of people directly affected by neurological disorders, their family members and health professionals regarding living with the conditions.
- Promote mental health, appropriately recognise and respond to problems with sexuality, and support end of life planning for people with neurological disorders.
- Assess ways to support people with neurological disorders; maintaining safety and comfort, movement control, breathing, speaking, eating and drinking, managing continence, and sleeping.
- Demonstrate support for people with neurological disorders in making days meaningful.
- Engage in processes towards addressing difficult ethical dilemmas.
Syllabus
- How to understand the impact of, and care for people affected by long-term and degenerative neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and multiple sclerosis, stroke, epilepsy and others.
- How to assist people with neurological disorders to maximise their independence in carrying out activities of living such as maintaining safety, breathing, washing and dressing, eating and drinking, mobilising, communicating, sleeping and approaching death.
- Maximising comfort, ensuring meaningful days, managing continence, accessibility, and falls prevention.
- Promoting wellbeing and mental health, and managing tricky ethical dilemmas.
Issued on 18th January 2024
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