Course: Compassionate Care: Getting it Right

In Week 3, you used Envision cards in a photoelicitation exercise. This week, we will be using them again to explore our understanding of leadership. What does leadership look like, …

In this video, you will hear comments from people across the health and social care industry who talked about what they think is important about leading and managing compassionate care. …

At this stage, a key question to ask yourself is Do you have any baseline information you can build from? The above presentation by your week lead, Professor Kevin Rooney, …

There are different practice tools that you can use to help Caring Conversations happen more of the time. In this step, we are going to introduce you to one tool, …

This video features your week lead, Belinda Dewar, demonstrating the emotional touchpoints technique, which is used to learn about people’s experiences. While watching this video, you might like to make …

To begin Week 2, here is an introductory video with Professor Brendan McCormack, who will set the scene for each week. In this video, he introduces the concept of humanising …

The Before I Die Wall is a global public art project which was started by Candy Chang, following the death of someone close to her. She turned a wall of …

What if it is the day-to-day work that is making you feel stressed, anxious, worried? Caring for others can be emotionally intensive, so it is really important to care for …

There are many debates around the issues of care and compassion in the health service. For example, can compassion be learned? Has nursing’s move to higher education led to a …

How do you describe compassion? In this video, you’ll hear from practitioners, researchers and academics about what compassion means to them, in their own words. Throughout the course, we’ll look …

To what extent is compassion necessary in order to provide care? One of the recommendations from the Francis Report, also picked up by the Willis Commission, is the need for …

Welcome to Compassionate Care: Getting it Right. When you are ready, please watch the introductory video above, where Professor Brendan McCormack introduces you to the course. Before we begin, please …

In this video, Dr. Elaine Lee gave you some information about topic for this first week. On the course, we’ll be using a letter of good care to lead you …