Training

 

The training and continuous education of the personnel working in the team has always represented a high priority for the Foundation for Community Care Services. The first three training programs for the FCCS team were provided by professors outside Romania: Nigel Horner, Pat Clarke, Duncan Howels from Great Britain, Rebecca Davis, Bill Sauer and Eileen Ihrig from the United States of America.

In time, an internal training capacity was developed within FCCS and a training team was set up: Dr. Valentin Vladu, Dr. Cristian Olaru, Dr. Cristina Isar, Nurse Nicoleta Cândea, Paula Constantin, Beatrice Bădescu, Crina Veronica Popa, Sanda Cuţulescu. The team formed other teams in the country, training for trainers within these future teams: Monica Patrania, Doiniţa Sârghie (Piatra Neamţ), Dr.Ştefan Ciobanu (Bacău), Marilena Popescu, Liliana Stănescu (Piteşti), Aurora Popa (Vaslui), Andrei Oprea (Craiova), Ani Tudoran (Cluj).

Training

Starting with 1996, FCCS has developed its own training program for the start up and team building of those who wish to develop a home care program in their community. This program consists in a basic training course and continuous education training programs.

 

The basic training course

 

“Home care for dependent people” was an innovation itself due to the fact that all the members of the home care team were involved in the training program. The training had a theoretical component (80 hours) and a practical one: one month in a geriatric hospital for the home carers.

From 1995 up to present, FCCS has organized 39 basic training programs in home care and hospital discharge having a total of 1100 participants.

These training programs have been developed as follows:

 

  • August 1995 – Bucharest, funded by Romania Project UK

  • February 1996 – Bucharest, funded by the Cambridge University

  • August 1996 – Bucharest, funded by Romania Project UK

  • October 1996 – Oneşti, funded by the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society

  • December 1996 – Botoşani, funded by the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society

  • February 1997 – Bucharest, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • April 1997 – Satu Mare, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • August 1997 – Bacău, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • September 1997 – Bucharest, funded by Phare LIEN

  • December 1997 – Cluj Napoca, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • April 1998 – Bucharest, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • June 1998 – Cluj Napoca, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • June 1998 – Piatra Neamţ, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • August 1998- Bistriţa, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • August 1998 – Constanţa, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • November 1998 – Braşov, funded by the Maastricht University, Netherlands

  • December 1998 – Roman, Neamţ County, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • January 1999 – Sinaia, funded by FAAMED Sinaia

  • February 1999 – Chişinău, Moldova, funded by Soros Moldova

  • June 1999 – Piatra Neamţ, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • June 1999 – Baia Mare, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • September 1999 – Constanţa, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • February 2000 – Suceava, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • March 2000 – Braşov, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society

  • March – April – May: CPPSSAM (modules of 3 days in Bucharest)

  • June 2000 – Vaslui, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society – Romania

  • July 2000 – Iaşi, funded by the Foundation for an Open Society – Romania

  • August 2000 – Tbilisi, Georgia, funded by the Open Society Institute New York

  • November 2000 – Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna, funded by the Swiss Development and Cooperation, Switzerland

  • December 2000 – Chişinău, Moldova, funded by the Open Society Institute New York

  • May 2001 – Vaslui, funded by the Center for Policy and Health Services

  • July 2001 – Piteşti, funded by the Center for Policy and Health Services

  • August 2001 – Edineţ, Moldova Republic, funded by the Open Society Institute New York

  • December 2001 – Iaşi, funded by the Center for Policy and Health Services

  • March 2002 – Voluntari village, Ilfov, funded by the Foundation for Community Care Services Bucharest

  • June 2002 – Târgu Mureş, funded by the Center for Policy and Health Services

  • July 2002 – Craiova, funded by Helios Policlinic, Craiova

  • August 2002 – Bucharest, funded by the City Hall of Sector 1 (Department for Social Protection) and the Foundation for Community Care Services Bucharest

  • 2004 – Bucharest, Bacău, Piatra Neamţ, Sf.Gheorghe, Piteşti, Braşov, Oradea, Cluj Napoca.

Training

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The Foundation for Community Care Services developed from June 2000 - May 2001, the project “Partnership for quality in elder care”, within the regional geriatrics program of the Open Society Institute in New York. The purpose of the project was to develop similar teams in home care for elderly in Chişinău, Moldova and Tbilisi, Georgia. These basic training programs in Chişinău and Tbilisi were followed by practical assignments in Romania of these teams’ managers.

 

The continuous education training programs

 

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  • “Communication within the team” (21-23 February 1997, The Center for Improvement and Superior Nurses Training);

  • “The role of team and of the professionals within the community care services” (18-20 April 1997, The Center for Improvement and Superior Nurses Training);

  • “The multidisciplinary team and the community care services” (21-23 April 1997, Emergency Hospital Floreasca, Bucharest; the course was sustained with the collaboration of two experts within the Dutch partners T&D organization: Anke Hulshoff, nursing manager and Catherine Von Schie, community nurse);

  • In September 1997 at Ploiesti, in partnership with the National Federation of Pensioners in Romania, was developed the first course for training for informal carers in home care;

  • “Quality in social services”, March 1998, for the staff of the social assistance department of Local Authority Sector 6;

  • “Training and team development”, April 1998, for the Foundation of Support of the Elderly in Cluj Napoca;

  • Kinetotherapy training programs in Bucharest and Piatra Neamţ (training provided by Foundation for Community Care Services kinetotherapists to other kinetoterapists within the teams. The training consisted also in specific professional skills and on how the kinetoterapists must work within a multidisciplinary team).

Training

 

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