Monday 28 July 2014

Blended e-learning and end of life care in nursing homes: a small-scale mixed-methods case study

BMC Palliative Care, 2014, vol./is. 13/(31)
Farrington CJ

This paper evaluates the impact of a blended training course for group c staff (i.e. staff with relatively infrequent contact with end of life care) in a nursing home in the East of England, while also considering barriers to change in practice. The author concludes that while blended e-learning courses have the potential to generate positive change in participants' understandings of and confidence about End of Life Care, organizational and inter-professional obstacles must be overcome in order to translate these changes into improved end of life care delivery in nursing (and residential) homes.

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