PROSPECT offers workshops on a range of topics including:
Workshop content can be adapted to meet the specific needs of workshop participants.
CULTURE, RELIGION AND HEALTH CARE
A skills-based approach to care in a multiracial society.
Meeting cultural and religious needs is an essential part of providing care in a multi ethnic society. This workshop enables participants to respond flexibly to the needs of people from a wide variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. The content can be adapted to cover issues and aspects of care that are relevant to different professionals, for example, midwives, doctors, nurses, or staff working with older people in residential and community care settings.
What to expect
This workshop offers a safe learning environment in which everyone's perspective is welcomed and respected. It aims to enhance participants' abilities to provide individualised, care which takes cultural and religious needs into account. It increases understanding and confidence and is down to earth, practical and constructive.
The precise content is tailored to participants' needs. Topics most likely to be covered in a one-day workshop include:
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What is culture and who has it?
- Concepts of 'difference' and how these affect relationships and attitudes
- Ways in which culture and religion might influence people's needs
- Opportunities to reflect on current practice and to consider the client's perspective
- Identifying and meeting individual needs
- Discrimination and implications for health care provision.
- Using and recording names accurately
- Differences in family structure and implications for care
There is time for reflection and in particular for participants to identify specific ways in which they can improve their care for people with differing religious and cultural needs.
Each participant receives a folder of handouts summarising the course content.
PREGNANCY LOSS AND THE DEATH OF A BABY
This workshop is based on the content of the Sands Guidelines for professionals,
Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby (2007).
Rooted in research findings and the experiences of bereaved parents, the workshop provides a supportive and confidential learning environment in which participants can increase their awareness and understanding of the needs and feelings of parents who have a childbearing loss, and improve their confidence and their ability to offer appropriate and flexible care.
Topics include:
- The range of childbearing losses and the needs of bereaved parents
- Grief and mourning
- The influence of culture and religion on the expression of grief
- Communicating with distressed parents
- Breaking bad news
- Giving information
- Offering support
- Enabling choice and informed consent
- Listening skills
- Staff support and boundaries
Each participant receives a folder of handouts summarizing the course content.
For information about the work of Sands and about the Sands Guidelines please go to
www.uk-sands.org.
