Leadership in Transforming Dementia Care for Nurses

This session will introduce you to the key policy drivers and evidence base that inform high quality, compassionate, person-centred care practices. It will help you to understand how you can use leadership skills to work collaboratively with your colleagues to implement evidence-based practice and maintain a high level of care quality.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Identify the key drivers and sources of evidence that influence dementia care
• Promote the use of evidence in planning and delivering care
• Describe the importance of key leadership skills for ensuring quality, improving services and providing staff training and support
• Describe the importance of collaborative working and equality and diversity when working with different agencies and individuals

In this session, we will reflect on the roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers and the key drivers and evidence base which can inform these roles.

This session has been mapped to the Dementia Training Standards Framework and is designed to support the Dementia Action Alliance Dementia Statements.