Caru Workshops Completed in 2024 (so far)
The Caru team have successfully completed another series of Caru Quality Improvement Workshops in 2024. With this milestone, an additional 223 nursing home staff across Ireland are now trained in the Caru Review Process and will be leading on continuous quality improvement processes within their nursing homes.
The nine Caru Regional Leads are responsible for delivering a four-part series of free workshops across the country. These workshops are intended to support and empower all staff within the nursing home in their delivery of end-of-life, palliative care and bereavement support within the nursing home sector, through continuous quality improvement (also known as the Caru Review Process). To learn more about the Caru Workshops, visit Caru.ie.
Nursing home staff were trained in the following locations:
Athlone
Ballina
Dublin
South Dublin
Limerick
Cork City
Additional training was conducted within individual nursing homes: St Brendan’s CNU Loughrea, TLC Carton, TLC Citywest, TLC Maynooth and TLC Santry. Training is ongoing in Donegal, Dublin (Swords) and Waterford.
Staff across all departments were represented at the workshops, including Directors of Nursing, Staff Nurses, Clinical Nurse Managers, Healthcare Assistants, Activity Coordinators, Administration Staff, Catering Staff and Allied Health Professionals. The workshops are an invaluable education programme to support staff in the delivery of palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care.
Further Workshops are planned for Autumn 2024.
Upcoming Workshops - Save the Date!
Recruitment for all workshops is ongoing, and we encourage all interested staff to get involved and take advantage of this opportunity for professional growth and development.
- CHO9 will be running another round of workshops starting 11th Sept in the IHF offices in Dublin. Places are still available, but priority will be given to new nursing homes. Groups looking to train new colleagues should contact Alison.
- The next round of workshops in CHO1 will be starting in September in Monaghan. Contact Regional Lead, Clodagh McGuinness for more info.
- New round of Workshops are commencing in CHO3 on the 27th in the Hospital of Assumption Thurles Co Tipperary. Contact Mary Fahy.
- Workshops in CHO2 will recommence in September in Claremorris, Co Mayo. Contact Liz Jacques.
You can also find the contact information for each CHO Regional Lead on our Meet the Team page.
