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The goal has been achieved and the hospital now has a multidisciplinary palliative care team consisting of doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers who strive to help terminally ill adult and pediatric patients and their families.
"In a year and a half, we have cared for more than 50 patients who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. We even helped prepare one wedding of such a patient right in the ward," sums up the results of the project Mgr. Jiří Pichlík, project coordinator.
The team members attended a total of four national palliative medicine conferences and successfully completed six training sessions of the Czech Society of Palliative Medicine ČLS JEP. They participated in internships in the palliative ward of the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo and in the mobile hospice Cesta domů. "I consider the area of education in palliative care to be quite crucial in the further development of our team's work. That is why we will continue to pursue these activities after the end of the grant support. For example, we plan to organise a hospital-wide seminar and participate in professional events on palliative care," says Prim. MUDr. Mahulena Mojžíšová, expert guarantor of the project.
Among other things, this project included a two-day course on basal stimulation for twenty-two medical staff of the Hořovice hospital (see photo). In addition to theoretical information, it was a practical and experiential course. The participants tried out various techniques and procedures that they use in their daily work. Due to the great interest, a similar course will be held at the end of February next year, and regular supervision meetings and a crisis intervention course are planned.
In addition to the above, two rooms for palliative patients have been created in the internal ward. These specially equipped rooms allow full respect for the privacy of patients and their loved ones at the end of life. In the near future, there are plans to build such rooms for paediatric patients and their families in the children's ward. Further development of palliative care in the sense of the ongoing project is expected in the coming years in connection with further expansion of the hospital.
