COVER STORY Life After Stroke Training
It’s high time to address the need for first-rate help for stroke survivors left with disabilities. The Stroke Association discusses how to make sure staff are trained to give the best possible standard of care.
Over half of the UK's 1.3million stroke survivors have a disability and need support with daily life. This can be provided by friends and family, but in many cases is provided by care staff. Stroke is a complex condition and can affect each person differently. So how can your staff provide the very best care, in the short amount of time they get with their service users?
Training staff to understand stroke can be advantageous to increasing their productivity and empathy, with those they care for. This will help them to personalise the care they can give, improving the lives for the stroke survivor. Carers can be taught how to set goals for their service users, so that they can regain and relearn key skills to help them with their daily lives.
Understanding frustrations that stroke can cause, by altering abilities, personality and depression, can help care staff to build better relationships with their service users.
There are many different training courses for care staff and it is hard to know which are the best. Training provided by the Stroke Association carries the Skills for Health Quality Mark, an independent review that benchmarks outstanding training. We have been delivering training to health and social care staff for over 20 years, and have created courses that encourage the building of new skills and best practice that can be applied to the workplace.
Although it is stroke specific training, the skills and techniques apply to many more conditions such as Vascular Dementia (which is usually caused by stroke), Parkinson's disease, Dementia, Diabetes and many more. The qualifications we provide are part of the Qualification and Credit
- 16 -
Framework, and we can deliver this either face to face or through distance learning, where the information is learnt online and with tutorial support. Staff complete a workbook that is submitted for evaluation.
There is evidence to support the improvement of recruitment and retention for companies that invest in qualifications for their staff.
Training should not be seen as an end in itself. What matters is that the staff are competent and kind. This is why we use stroke survivors in all our training. We draw on the students experience and use practical demonstrations to build empathy and
we support and guide students how to access further help and information provided by the Stroke Association.
The work-based assessments that are integral to our Level 3 Stroke Care Management course are all observed by our stroke trainers, to ensure the learning is applied to the workplace and students effectively implement their learning to the people they care for.
To view our latest training video click here.
www.stroke.org.uk
www.tomorrowscare.co.uk
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50