Term Archives

  1. Module 2: Equality and Diversity Legislation

    It has four main objectives which updates and amends existing laws for England, Wales and Scotland. It creates a new single equality duty on public bodies which extends the scope for positive action with new provisions for positive discrimination.
  2. Module 1: What is Equality & Diversity?

    In this course, we will discuss about equality and diversity and how they are interlinked with each other. This will assist us to identify, understand and address the issues of wrongness and discrimination in the workplace. We all heard about the words of equality and diversity before but are still valuable to start by defining exactly what they mean.
  3. Equality, diversity, and discrimination

    Equality, diversity and discrimination have never been so essential to society but now it is very important. At this moment, there is no form of discrimination in the workplace.
  4. Module 5: Support and Aftercare

    It is widely recognized that family members are often central to care of people with advanced illness. During the illness period and after death, care and support should be provided to patients as well as their family members.
  5. Module 4: The dying process

    Each experience is different at the end of life. Death can come suddenly, or a person may linger in a near-death state for days, weeks, or even months. It is not always easy to know when a person is dying predominantly if they are weak and their condition is worsening slowly.
  6. Module 3: Patterns of Dying

    The quality of a person dying is in many ways as important as their quality of life. According to frog rat (2001) the nature of multiple and chronic health problems such as many aged people experience over a period of time makes it difficult to define when someone can actually be said to be dying.
  7. Module 2: Emotions and Feelings

    Emotions are inherent to human condition and a range of feelings arrive from the person at the end of their life. The main challenge is for those people who are relative, friend or carer of that individual to fight with chronic illness.
  8. Module 1: End of life care

    End of life and palliative care aims to support you if you have a life-limiting disease. The focus of this type of care is managing symptoms and providing comfort and support including help with emotional and mental health, spiritual and social requirements.
  9. Brief Decsription of End of Life Care

    This course is particularly designed for those people who are interested in or engaged in matters relating to death, dying, bereavement, palliative and end of life care.
  10. Module 7: Overcoming Barriers to Dignity and Privacy

    The preservation of dignity is one of the most debated yet inconclusive challenges in health care. There are three main areas which if not handled professionally can act as barriers to your ability to treat service users with dignity and privacy