Events
Event
Description
SIXTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
A Practical Guide to Improving
Dignity in Care on the Wards
Delivering high quality nursing care with dignity and compassion to improve the patient experience
“Dignity applies equally to those who have capacity and to those who lack it. Everyone has equal worth as human beings and must be treated as if they are able to feel, think and behave in relation to their own worth or value. The nursing team should, therefore, treat all people in all settings and of any health status with dignity, and dignified care should continue after death.”
Royal College of Nursing 2008
Through a series of presentations, this one day national conference, chaired by Janet Davies Director of Nursing and Service Delivery Royal College of Nursing focuses on measuring and monitoring dignity in care to improve the patient experience, developing frontline staff to provide care with compassion and initiatives to deliver dignity in care.
Following the chairs introduction on making dignity a priority in your organisation overcoming the challenges and embracing the opportunities, delegates will also hear from Claire Rayner President Patients Association who will provide a patient’s perspective on dignity in care, actively involving people in their care and learning from patients and their experience of receiving care in hospital.
Topics Include:
· Putting dignity at the heart of everything we do: challenges and opportunities for nurses
· Dignity in care: Patient perspective
· Implementing the Department of Health’s 10 key dignity challenges and promoting good practice trust-wide
· ‘Measuring Dignity in Care for Older People’: recommendations and metrics
· Monitoring and assessing dignity in care against quality indicators in practice
· Leading, supporting and empowering frontline staff to provide care with compassion and dignity
· Assessing ability to offer compassion and preserve patients’ dignity and respect
· Challenging poor performance, changing attitudes and behaviours to improve dignity in care
· The challenges of providing same sex accommodation and moving towards single rooms
· Eliminating mixed-sex accommodation and moving towards single rooms
· Detained with dignity
· Improving nutritional care and experience at mealtimes
Speakers include:
Janet Davies Director of Nursing and Service Delivery Royal College of Nursing
Claire Rayner President Patients Association
Professor Eileen Sills CBE Chief Nurse Guys & St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust
Related links.....
Dignity: 200 Quality Indicators
Dignity in Care – Department of Health
This conference has been Accredited by the RCN Accreditation unit. RCN Accredited events can enhance your CPD portfolio and contribute towards your continuing professional development.
To download a copy of the conference programme, please click here
For more information contact Hanisha on 020 8541 1399 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Venue
Description
The Royal College of Nursing is located in Cavendish Square.
A 10 minute walk from five underground stations; Regent’s Park, Great Portland Street, Warren Street, Goodge Street and Oxford Circus. These have direct connections from Victoria, Kings Cross, Euston,Waterloo and Liverpool Street mainline stations.