FIRST TRAINING SESSION 6 – 10 MARCH 2024
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT
This session, led by Imean Academy, Activa International Foundation and Okyanus Atasehir Yasli Bakim, focuses on introducing participants to the policy landscape around culture-sensitive care, both nationally and internationally. This foundational training will provide a broad perspective on the various aspects of culture- sensitive care, setting the stage for more detailed learning and application in subsequent sessions.
ERASMUS+ PROJECT KA-210 ADU CARE FOR CARE
The Erasmus+ KA-210 ADU project is focused on enhancing cultural sensitivity in healthcare, with a particular emphasis on facilitating the integration of healthcare workers from Turkey in the Netherlands and improving the care for Dutch patients seeking treatment in Turkey.
PROBLEM
A key issue is the upcoming shortage of healthcare workers and especially those able to work with the growing number people with a migration background in the Netherlands.
Concurrently, there’s a growing trend of Dutch patients seeking medical treatment in Turkey. However, Turkish healthcare workers’ lack of experience in treating foreign patients, including Dutch, poses a barrier to providing quality care.
OBJECTIVE
The project’s primary goal is to develop a blueprint for an educational pathway for healthcare professionals. This pathway aims to bridge cultural gaps and enhance the skills of healthcare workers, ensuring they can provide culturally sensitive care to patients from diverse backgrounds.
RESULTS
The anticipated outcomes include a report on culture- sensitive care aspects, a group of 10 health and care workers who will complete the experimental pathway and acquire new insights, qualifications, and skills, and the blueprint for an educational pathway for healthcare workers catering to clients from different member states.
ACTIVITIES
The project includes training sessions conducted by Imean Academy and Okyanus Atasehir Yasli Bakim for health and care workers from both the Netherlands and Turkey. These workshops will compare and contrast practices in each country, with observations informing the development of the educational pathway blueprint. This pathway is intended to be independent of the training sessions themselves.
PROGRAM MARCH 7TH
09.00 Opening & introduction of the participants
09.45 General introduction to the situation in Turkey (Vildan)
10.30 The need for culture sensitive care in the Netherlands (Sevilay) 11.15 Explanation of the Erasmus+ project (Ivo)
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Visit of Vildans Care Centre
14.00 Visit of projectpartner Okyanus Palliative Care Centre
15.00 Transnational project meeting
19.00 Joint dinner
PROGRAM MARCH 8TH
09.00 Reflection session at Meva Care and Revalidation Centre
09.15 Experiences of Saxion University of applied sciences (Yvonne) 09.45 Aspects of culture sensitive education at Saxion University (Nic) 10.00 Experiences of caretaker organisation ZorgAccent (Agnes) 10.30 Description of the situation in Turkey 1
11.00 Description of the situation in Turkey 2
11.30 Workshop
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Visit of Memorial Health Tourism Hospital
19.00 Diner
PROGRAM MARCH 9TH
09.00 Retrospective day 1 and day 2, precising the content and planning of the rest of the project
10.00 Evaluation of the meeting
EVALUATION
The purpose of this first meeting was to learn from eachothers care systems and to see the extent to which we already work in a culture sensitive manner. Also was it the purpose to gain information/feed for the next meeting in april in Almelo. During the second meeting we will go further into depth. We then will explore how to school people in culture sensitive working. After that there will be a thirth meeting in September in which we shall focus mainly on ‘the environment’; what do we need to work culture sensitive. This first meeting was a very valuable meeting. There arose beautiful conversations and it was good to see that we can learn from eachother.
PARTICIPANTS
from the Netherlands:
Ivo van Dongen, Activa International Foundation Sevilay Luiken-Dalli, Imean
Agnes Nijhuis-Kuipers, ZorgAccent Yvonne Kerkhof, Saxion
Nic ten Brinke, Saxion
Kamile Adali, Imean
Sibel Rallas, Imean
Mohcine Moulina, Imean
Erkan Coskunsu, Imean
Ester ter Pelle, Imean
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