The first course on end of life care arouses great interest at the Center spot.

Spain, January of 2013. A total of 20 very different categories of health professionals participated last Tuesday in the ‘ clinical bioethics course for intervention with patients at the end of life ’ organized by the General Hospital ‘ La Mancha Centro ’ Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real)Center dependent of the Government of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain.

The first edition of this training activities programmed by the palliative care unit and the direction of nursing, within its strategy of the humanization of care offered to users, has had great success. And it is up to 45 employees of the alcazareno hospital had requested to participate in it.

The reasons for this high interest from health professionals may be due to the fact that the course deals with a subject which, although it is of great importance, does not usually taught in the faculties of the various health professionals.

The course also boasts one of the experts in bioethics and most recognized palliative care at the national level, the doctor Javier Barber Gutierrez, Assistant psychologist of the service of Hematology of the Hospital Universitario La Paz of Madrid.

according to Barbero, the objective of the training in palliative is to pass to practice the recommendations that the World Health Organization (who) gives to the professionals. have a very practical character precisely because many emotions play in a very intense way: appears the distress in the familypatients, practitioners sometimes also have to suffer situations of suffering foreign and own, and for that are needed attitudes and skills that have to work ”.

As little training offered at universities about palliative care, the Rapporteur of course believed that it is because of that speak of dying and to mention that at the end touches us all, and that there are technical tools to do so, is as if it were politically incorrect ”. Health is linked to heal and care for, but according to Barbero forgets that sometimes taking care is to accompany dismiss ”. We are in a tanatofobica society, which flees from that experience of death which is daily, but did not find it as something our, so costs incorporate way regulated within the powers ”, the expert concludes.

Multidisciplinary team

The ‘ clinical bioethics course for intervention with patients at the end of life ’ had addressed to professionals of all categories, given that the reason for a comprehensive care at end of life situations is necessarily defined by a multidisciplinary teamwhere each professional is committed to the needs of the palliative patients and their families in each of its dimensions (physical, emotional, social and spiritual).

The course objective has been providing professional knowledge and skills in clinical bioethics for intervention with patients at the end of life. To do so, an approach to the concept of not avoidable suffering has been made, has illustrated the participants on different models of conceptualization of spiritual experience, and is has trained them to know face radical questions of the patient at the end of life.

expose the different strategies and assessment tools of the spiritual dimension, show accompanying strategies, the importance of professional emotional self-care and analyze the content of the manifesto Mallorca ”, have been another of the contents addressed during the cited training activity.

Next editions on mourning and accompaniment

The next course which will be held at the General Hospital ‘ La Mancha Centro ’ related to palliative care will take place in late January. It will then when Dr. Javier Barbero move to workers of the alcazareno hospital assessment and intervention strategies in duel processes. The programme will be completed with a workshop on spiritual accompaniment in processes at the end of life that will be held on February 12.