Patterson Lakes Professional Development Consultants

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Patterson Lakes

Professional Development Consultants

Australia

PLPDC provides professional education, services and management tools on a project and consulting basis to Nursing Homes and Hostels throughout Australia, and specialises in palliative care education.

By working with nurses, managers and the whole spectrum of caring staff, we help to ensure residents’ and carers' needs are always met. This often requires raising standards, specifying position descriptions, policies and procedures, and ensuring accurate, reliable records are kept. This ensures that all residents are properly treated and cared for.

We provide simple, practical tools to:

Specify position descriptions
Define policies and procedures
Clarify roles and responsibilities
Assist in the avoidance and resolution of conflicts
Empower residents to maintain their rights, dignity and quality of life
Defend decisions and justify actions taken
Ensure that responsibility is managed appropriately

Our tools also encourage the assessment, self-development and ongoing education of staff. Now, more than ever, it is essential for professional staff to keep up with changes in Nursing. Their skills soon become out-dated and they will find it difficult to use modern equipment and procedures, if they do not keep abreast of developments in attitudes, procedures and technology. This will affect the level of services they will be able to provide to their residents.