EVENT OVERVIEW

A virtual Community of Practice for newly qualified nurses with a focus on the principles of palliative and end of life care, providing opportunities for shared learning, continuous development and pastoral support

We have created a Community of Practice for newly qualified nurses to help lay the foundations for the rest of their nursing career. The aim is to help nurses master the principles and practice of palliative and end of life care, so that we can create a growing cohort of nurses to support patients approaching the end of life and their families, throughout their career.

We’ve been able to establish the community, thanks to the support of Dr Tyrrell Evans and his daughter Isabel. In March 2020 retired nurse, Siân Evans, Tyrrell’s wife and Isabel’s mother, died aged 69 after many months of care and support from St Christopher’s.

Grateful for the exceptional care the whole family received, Tyrrell and Isabel decided they wanted to create a legacy for Siân. They set up a fund to support nursing education and training in palliative and end of life care.

• Topics
• Who is it for
• Outline

• What will I learn?

  Over the course of ten monthly sessions, members of the community can expect to achieve:

  • Greater clarity about the role of the newly qualified nurse in end of life care
  • A better understanding of the principles of quality end of life care
  • Greater confidence in delivering quality end of life care and communicating about death and dying
  • Increased understanding of the role of hospice and palliative care in supporting people who are dying or bereaved
  • Greater resilience and a shared sense of pastoral support

• Who is it for?

  Nurses working in any setting, up to five years post qualification or registration. Newly Qualified Nurses working in hospices, the community, acute sector, primary care and care homes.

• What will the course look like?

  This community will provide opportunities for shared learning, continuous development and pastoral support for a national network of newly qualified nurses including, we hope, you. It will provide you with an introduction to the art and science of nursing in end of life care, and the principles of palliative and end of life care

  Nurses in the community will be expected to develop and co-design the 10 monthly two-hour sessions which will feature input from professionals and experts by experience.

  At the end of the first year, in the autumn of 2022, we will host an in-person event at St Christopher’s CARE celebrate the achievements of the community and to remember Siân Evans.