New training courses for dementia care workers

three new dementia training courses: Dementia awareness, The environment of dementia & Challenging behaviour in dementia

The Protection of Freedoms Bill

I received a newsletter this morning outlining the timetable and basic details for the Protection of Freedoms Bill’s passage through parliament. It’s very well worth reading if you’re involved in health or social care in England, Wales or N. Ireland. What will happen in Scotland is unclear as the bill will not affect the Scottish [...]

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Student nurses: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

It will be today’s students who carry the standard of nursing tomorrow and they’ll have some pretty rough political terrain to cross.

Dementia care training updates

Over the next few weeks The Care Guy will be updating several ‘off the peg’ dementia care courses. This will include an overhaul of training programmes on ‘Dementia awareness’, ‘Person-centred dementia care’, ‘Communication in dementia care’, ‘Challenging behaviour in dementia’ & ‘The environment of dementia’. If you have any particular needs around dementia care training [...]

Meet ‘The care guy’

Meet ‘The care guy’ http://www.thecareguy.com I’ve spent the last couple of days working on this – I’m not exactly an expert when it comes to websites so everything took me twice as long as it should but I’m getting there. Have a look and let me know what you think. Clearly the point of this [...]

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TWIM ‘Best Nursing Blog’ 2011

This is the blog that won the TWIM ‘Best Nursing Blog’ award of 2011.