A cultural change in cancer education and training

Abstract

Collaborative education and training is the only way forward for the cancer care work force. The Calman-Hine report has become the benchmark on which to build practice since its launch in 1995. A forward looking group--the Cancer Care Alliance of Teesside, South Durham and North Yorkshire Education Group and the University of Teesside--adopted its principles from the Calman-Hine Report and developed some strategic projects to address and achieve them. A needs assessment of cancer education influenced the agenda within the Cancer Care Alliance. The education portfolio that was developed had a multiprofessional focus, incorporating both academic and non-academic study.

Residential Aged-Care Workers and the Palliative Approach

“…18 Various authors have reported that ancillary staff in nursing homes often develop close and trusting relationships with residents, 19,20 an observation made also in acute care contexts. [21][22][23] However, to date, such workers have rarely been included in education programs in the residential aged-care sector, 21,24,25 at least as evident in the published literature, with the bulk of studies focusing on the educational needs of registered nurses (RNs) and personal care attendants (PCAs). 13,16,[26][27][28][29][30][31] This article reports on findings from a broader study designed to develop a targeted education program for all levels of residential aged-care workers, including ancillary staff, in an Australian (Melbourne) aged-care facility.…”

It is time to stop paying lip service to the ideal of multiprofessional collaboration in cancer research and start delivering on the agenda

“…Scholes and Vaughan (2002) define multidisciplinary or multiprofessional practice as the interaction between a team made up of different professional groups and disciplines, and it has long been apparent that effective cancer care is not possible without multiprofessional team working. This has been the basis of calls for the joint education of nurses, physicians and other health professionals engaged in the care of cancer patients and their families (Boal et al. 2000; Thain & Wyatt 2002), although this has been difficult to achieve for a variety of reasons, not least differences in the training and educational requirements of different disciplines (Glen & Reeves 2004; Walsh et al.…”