The course includes fifty modules divided in four main area as follow:

A Medical issues

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A1 Support Individuals to access and participate in recreational activities

• The Care Environment
• Assess what an individual wants and needs
• Promoting Activity

A2 Support individuals in their daily living

• Meet domestic and personal needs
• Food and drink for individuals
• Personal hygiene

B Psychological issues

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B3 Communication with elderly people 

• Late adulthood
• Factors affecting communication of elderly people
• Communication skills – how to improve

B4 Communication with dying patients and their family 

• Communication with terminally ill and dying patients
• Communication with dying patients’ families
• How to talk about terminal disease

B5 Communication with patients with hearing disabilities 

• What is it?
• The loss of hearing
• How to communicate successfully with hearing disabilities?

B6 Communication with patients with seeing disabilities 

• Vision, seeing disabilities, blindness
• How do the blind and people with seeing disabilities see the world
• The principles of communication with the blind and those with seeing disabilities

B7 The relationship with patients family 

• Listening and comunicating
• Family empowerment (and professionalism)

B8 Establishing an help relationship 

• Mediation and mediators
• Help relationship

C National/EU health laws

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C9 Introduction to the main home heath care worker EU legislation 

• European Union Treaties
• Fundamental rights
• European health strategy

C10 Home heath care worker UK legislation

• Legal Care Standards
• Minimum level of service standards
• Going beyond the standards

C11 Home heath care workers SI legislation

• General legal environment
• Legislation in a health care sector

D Social/ethical aspects

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D12 Nurse: professional code and ethical aspects 

• Nurse and the patient
• Nurse and ethical aspects of her work
• Nurse and ethical decisions

D13 Cultural differences in approaching patients

• Culture and Cultures
• The nursing theory of universality and diversity 
• Passage rites

D14 Social care workers professional code and ethical aspects

• Social Code
• Care Standards
• Policies and Procedures

D15 Self instruction and continuing learning

• Self-instruction
• Toward reflective practic

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