The Polibienestar Research Centre of Social Welfare Policies of the Universitat de València participates in a new European research project for health care professional staff training about compassionate care which respect multiculturality. Researchers of Polibienestar have attended the opening meeting of the project IENE4 (Strengthening the nurses and health care professionals’ capacity to deliver culturally competent and compassionate care) which took place this December in Limassol (Cyprus).
This project, supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of European Commission (ref. 2014-1 UK01-KA202-001659), is aimed to improve the quality of health care professional training to deliver culturally competent compassionate care to respond to the needs of the current health branch. For this, according to Ascensión Doñate, “the project pretends to develop a model of evaluation and training specially addressed to health professionals who have direction, coordination and/or leading posts inside the health branch”. This way, she adds, “through different works, which will be developed by the project, it is pretended to achieve that, through the creation of those posts, principles and values about compassionate cares with patients of different cultures will be promoted in a clinic field as well as in the academic one”.
During those days of the opening meeting in Cyprus, the associates of this project established scientific and administrative basis for its execution for two years. Likewise, Polibienestar, among other associates, presented their first results of different reviews of scientific literature in some points related with universal components of compassionate care, tools for their mesure and its learning methods.
This project is coordinated along with the doctor Rena Papadopoulos of Middlesex University London (United Kingdom) in which several European universities participate: the Polibienestar Research Centre (Spain), University College Lillebaelt (Denmark), Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), Marmara University Pendik Research and Training Hospital (Turkey), Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese (Italy) and the EDUNET organization (Romania). Polibienestar Centre will lead the development and validation of tools and learning methods addressed to health professionals who have direction, coordination and/or leading posts.
Polibienestar is a public institute of the Universitat de València specialised in research, innovation and social technology, technical advice and training in social policies branch which are aimed to achieve welfare and quality of life in society. Jorge Garcés, director of the Polibienestar Centre and a current full university professor Príncipe de Asturias in Georgetown University (Washington), is the responsible for the research group of IENE4 project, made up by Ascensión Doñate, Estrella Durá and Francisco Ródenas.
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Last update: 23 de december de 2014 09:35.
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