Anna de Siún,National Development Co-ordinator, Residential Care

A Journey of Change

Our Vision:Building a community

of residential care centres dedicated to continuous quality

improvement in end of life care

“Good end-of-life care is flexible, contemplative and responsive to residents needs in order to

capture the uncertainty associated with increasing dependency, dying and death”

HIQA, 2013

Developing ‘A Journey of Change’

• A wealth of resources, education and training on end-of-life care.

• Provide staff with the tools and skills needed to conduct continuous review and reflection on EoLC after the death of a resident.

• Recognising the challenge of change.

• Giving staff the skills and knowledge to implement effective change.

• Facilitate RCCs to identify and access the resources most appropriate to their needs.

• Differing needs.

How does it work?

Building Excellence

Growing Excellence

Strengthening

Excellence

Building Excellence

• Become part of a community supported by the on-line support network.• Regional On-line Meetings.

• Regular bulletins regarding best practice in EOLC.

• Webinars.

• Depository of up-to-date information on EOL education and resources.

• Receive the EOLC Toolkit for RCCs.

• Communication with a person who has dementia, care planning, assessment, care after death, bereavement support.

• Receive an EOLC Resource Pack.

• EoL symbol, DVD, posters, bereavement leaflets

• Cost: €250.

• Annual membership to network, €250 per annum thereafter.

Growing Excellence

• Receive the EoLC Toolkit and Resource Pack.

• Training on facilitating structured review meetings after the death of a resident.

• Training on change management and utilising the EoLC toolkit.

• Guidance on accessing and using resources and tools necessary to meet identified EOLC needs.

• Receive phone and e-mail support.

• Receive discounted What Matters to Me staff development workshops.

• Membership to the on-line learning and support network.

• Cost: €500

• Annual membership to network, €250 per annum thereafter.

Strengthening Excellence

• An entire continuous quality improvement cycle supported each step with on-site facilitation from IHF.

• Opportunity to reflect on what EoL means to everyone in the care centre and developing their own vision for EoLC.

• Facilitated retrospective review after death.

• Support to develop and implement individually tailored change projects.

• Optimum use of resources to meet their unique EoLC needs.

• New set of transferable skills in change management/CQI.

• Platform to share learning and best practice.

• Cost: 1,000

• Annual membership to network, €250 per annum thereafter.

Next Steps

• Two year pilot project.

• Currently engaging with RCCs in the Mid-West, Dublin and North West.

• Further information available at stand or by e-mailing:

ajourneyofchange@hospicefoundation.ie