About the Organ and Tissue Donation programme

Organ and tissue donation is an important aspect of end of life care. The interactional e-learning organ and tissue donation modules are designed to raise awareness and provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills regarding the organ and tissue donation process. The goal of which is to outline and prepare you for your role as a healthcare professional within the organ and tissue donation process, in order to be able to deliver the best person-centred care for those patients where organ and tissue donation is possible.

Learning objectives include:

• Providing an overview of the Organ and Tissue Donation Process

• Identify who is a donor, when and how to refer to the Organ Donation Service

• Understand why Organ donation is an integral part of End of Life Care

• Have an understanding of futility conversations, family approach and consent.

• Have an understanding of legislative change and it effects practice.

• Understanding the Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) process from referral to retrieval.

• Understanding the Donation after Brain (stem) Death (DBD) process from referral to retrieval.

• Understanding the adult Critical Care nurses role in the Organ Donation process.

• Gain an overview of Tissue donation and how to refer

• Gain an understanding of the post donation care available for donor families

This course is broken down into three modules and will take around 60 minutes to complete all three modules.

More information

The COVID-19 outbreak heavily hit hospital clinical learning environments, impacting the educational landscape of all healthcare employees. With face-to-face teaching and education suspended within hospital Trusts, the challenge for Organ Donation nurses nationally was how best we could meet the needs of our healthcare colleagues in the teaching and learning processes relating to organ and tissue donation.

Virtual remote training for healthcare employees is not new, many organisations have moved to e-learning to meet the needs of a pressurised health care system with increasing workloads. E-learning can be defined as educational content that is delivered asynchronously, using information and communication technologies, without the need for centralised face-to-face learning (Koch, 2014).

A blended educational approach of e-learning and face to face will allow adult Critical Care Nurses to explore their understanding an experiences of the Organ and Tissue Donation Process and is interactive and inclusive for all.

Primary and secondary audiences

Adult Critical Care Nurses

How to access

To access this programme, you will require a Learning Hub account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below. Note that if you hold a full elfh account, you can sign into the Learning Hub using your existing login credentials. 

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To view the ​Organ and Tissue Donation programme, select the View button below.  If you already have a Learning Hub account, you will also be able to login and access the resources within the programme . 

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Not an NHS organisation?  

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access to the Learning Hub, you may be able to access the service if you have an existing OpenAthens account. Please go to Learning Hub and sign in with your existing credentials.

If you do not have an existing OpenAthens account, please contact elfh directly to check whether you may be eligible for access.

Registering large numbers of users 

If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Organ and Tissue Donation programme, please contact elfh directly. 

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS 

For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest. 

More information 

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the Learning Hub