One of the goals of the Hungarian Hospice Foundation is to provide hospice training for those Eastern-European health professionals who are already working in a Hospice or want to work in this field. Between 2005-2008 we have organized 10 courses for more than 60 professionals of various specialties and different nationalities as seen below:
• Albania : nurses, doctors
• Bulgaria: doctors
• Georgia: doctors and hospice coordinators
• Lithuania: nurses
• Macedonia: doctors, nurses, coordinators
• Moldavia: doctors, nurses, psychologists
• Romania: doctors, nurses
• Russia: doctors
• Slovakia: nurses
• Ukraina: doctors, hospice coordinators,
• Turkey: doctors, nurses, coordinator
All our teachers are well known Hungarian hospice-palliative specialists (doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers).
The program of the 40 hours training:
• Introduction: the activities of the Hungarian Hospice Foundation
• Visit to the inpatient unit, case discussion
• Home care
• Symptom control, pain control
• Psychosocial and spiritual care in hospice
• Communication, breaking bad news
• Communication training
• Fundraising
• Publicity campaign
• Visit to the Jewish Hospital's Hospice Mobil Team and to the St. Elisabeth Hospice in Miskolc
This program is supported by the Open Society Institute, New York.
Thus we can cover the costs of accommodation and lunch, and partly the expenses of the course, but the applicants should pay for their travel and insurance costs, and other meals.
For further information please contact
Barbara Kallo
barbara.kallo@hospicehaz.hu
The Palliative Care in Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Countries Monthly Email Newsletter Vol.IV. No.7. July 2008
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