• Palliative medicine · May 2015

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Preparing palliative home care nurses to act as facilitators for physicians' learning: Evaluation of a training programme.

    • Peter Pype, Fien Mertens, Johan Wens, Ann Stes, Bart Van den Eynden, and Myriam Deveugele.
    • Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium peter.pype@ugent.be.
    • Palliat Med. 2015 May 1;29(5):458-63.

    BackgroundPalliative care requires a multidisciplinary care team. General practitioners often ask specialised palliative home care teams for support. Working with specialised nurses offers learning opportunities, also called workplace learning. This can be enhanced by the presence of a learning facilitator.ObjectivesTo describe the development and evaluation of a training programme for nurses in primary care. The programme aimed to prepare palliative home care team nurses to act as facilitators for general practitioners' workplace learning.DesignA one-group post-test only design (quantitative) and semi-structured interviews (qualitative) were used.MethodsA multifaceted train-the-trainer programme was designed. Evaluation was done through assignments with individual feedback, summative assessment through videotaped encounters with simulation-physicians and individual interviews after a period of practice implementation.ResultsA total of 35 nurses followed the programme. The overall satisfaction was high. Homework assignments interfered with the practice workload but showed to be fundamental in translating theory into practice. Median score on the summative assessment was 7 out of 14 with range 1-13. Interviews revealed some aspects of the training (e.g. incident analysis) to be too difficult for implementation or to be in conflict with personal preferences (focus on patient care instead of facilitating general practitioners' learning).ConclusionTraining palliative home care team nurses as facilitator of general practitioners' workplace learning is a feasible but complex intervention. Personal characteristics, interpersonal relationships and contextual variables have to be taken into account. Training expert palliative care nurses to facilitate general practitioners' workplace learning requires careful and individualised mentoring.© The Author(s) 2014.

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