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Paramedic elearning

Posted on: January 21st, 2025 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

Paramedics are often quickly required to form a team in a high-stake situation such as response to a cardiac arrest. The College of Paramedics, in collaboration with NHS England TEL elearning for healthcare and Dynamic Business services, has created a unique elearning session which allows you to immerse yourself in the dynamics of a team coming together to manage a sudden cardiac arrest, overcoming differences and distractions to work together effectively. Human factors: Management of a sudden cardiac arrest session can be worked through on any computer or mobile device, or as a fully immersive experience using a virtual reality headset.

Cardiac care and ECGs for paramedics covers the identification and pre-hospital care of patients with common cardiac conditions. It includes pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, assessment, evidence-based treatment and pathways for the optimal care of these conditions often seen patients.

Revised and updated in 2024, End of life and palliative care as associated with paramedic practice contains eight sessions reviewing the skills and knowledge paramedics need to manage patients nearing the end of their life, in accordance with their wishes and best interests.

Sickle Cell Disorder National Education Programme

Posted on: January 10th, 2025 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

Are you ready to deepen your clinical knowledge and improve the care you provide for patients with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD)? This new education programme is designed to give healthcare professionals the tools and insights to manage the complex needs of SCD patients, ensuring the best possible outcomes and experiences.

There are two course option on offer. The first, produced by The Red Cell Network, provides a full introduction to SCD to give learners a solid understanding of SCD as a genetically inherited blood condition. This is followed by information about common complications and treatment options, as well as pain presentation and pain management. The course also includes a session led by a patient with lived experience. SCD patients are experts in their own condition, and it is vital to work with them to deliver the best possible care. This also helps learners to build empathy with patients with SCD.

The second course, produced by King’s Health Partners, takes a more detailed look at acute pain presentation and other complications such as acute chest syndrome. The course provides learners with knowledge of how best to treat these symptoms. Both courses are available on the website.

As well as clinical knowledge, this programme addresses the role of racism and health-related stigma in patient care, teaching learners how to recognise and prevent such behaviours.

Dental exemptions for dental hygienists and dental therapists

Posted on: November 28th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

A new learning programme is available for dental hygienists and dental therapists to help navigate the changes under law, to supply and administer medicines within the Exemption framework (Human Medicines Regulations 2012), supporting the care of patients.

The elearning, developed in partnership with NHSE WT&E, comprises of six sections which include case studies and peer discussion as part of the learning and will take learners approximately 2 hours to complete. Although this programme was designed for dental hygienists and dental therapists, other members of the dental team may also find this learning useful.

The programme supports dental hygienists and dental therapists to apply these regulatory changes in practice. The elearning will link to activities dental professionals already undertake under Patient Group Directions (PGD), or as part of normal working using Patient Specific Directions (PSD) and will ask learners to extend this knowledge to working under exemptions.

You can access this new programme via the NHS Learning Hub.

The training launch follows on from the publication of the guidance on the supply and administration of medicines by dental hygienists and dental therapists, and the recently held webinar for contractors, dental hygienists and therapists.

Transnasal Endoscopy

Posted on: November 21st, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

The Transnasal Endoscopy (TNE) elearning is now live and is essential training for endoscopy nurses, as well as medical, surgical and clinical endoscopists. The elearning consists of 6 sessions that are focused on how to deliver effective TNE within the diagnostic pathway.

The NHS is focused on reducing the 6 week waiting times and backlog for upper GI endoscopies, as well as improving the diagnostic patient experience. To deliver this a TNE service has been created through a £2.5 million capital fund. It is anticipated that through this investment upper GI cancer diagnosis times will be improved. The Transnasal Endoscopy elearning will support this important work and the roll out of TNE roll out nationally.

Full details about the elearning and session details can be found on the Learning Hub.

Guidelines for the management of periprosthetic joint infection

Posted on: October 15th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

A new programme of eLearning has been developed to provide all healthcare staff with information and guidance on how to manage patients with Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI). It has been designed to support people in any healthcare role where they might be caring for someone with a suspected or actual prosthetic infection.

This eLearning module aims to ensure that staff are able to recognise and refer patients for the correct treatment in a timely manner so that they have the best chances of a good recovery.

The module provides essential information about Prosthetic Joint Infection, the Patient Experience of PJI, Guidelines for management of PJI, and key resources. A CPD certificate will be provided following the successful completion of the assessment.

Prosthetic Joint Infection is one of the most devastating events that can occur after joint replacement and significantly impacts both patients and the surgeons who treat them. The outcomes of PJI can be vastly improved if best practice guidelines are adhered to. This module uses evidence-based guidelines as a basis for understanding how PJI guidelines are relevant to all healthcare professionals who look after patients who have had a joint replacement, and how best to manage those patients.

The guidelines are the result of the INFORM: EP (INFection and ORthopaedic Management: Evidence into Practice) study, based on the evidence from a successful six-year research programme called INFORM led by the University of Bristol and funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The guidelines aim to ensure that patients with infection after hip replacement surgery receive prompt and effective care and have the best chance of a good outcome.

The INFORM website also has a list of additional support services for your patients that you can download and share with your patients which covers finance, mental health, hip and pain support, carers and family. It also offers counselling and other support services, as well as useful links for patients.

For more information and to access the training, please visit the programme page.

Updated Mental Capacity Act elearning now available

Posted on: March 21st, 2024 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

The Mental Capacity Act elearning programme has been updated for all health and care staff who work with people lacking mental capacity.

The resource has been revised and updated in line with recent case law and user feedback; and includes essential revisions to materials about the Liberty Protection Safeguards.

There are 12 sessions in the programme which cover a range of topics including best interests, restraint, adult safeguarding and deprivation of liberty. It is aimed at all health and care professionals who work with people aged 16 and over, who might lack mental capacity to make essential decisions at the time these decisions need making.

Since it was developed in 2019 the programme has been launched 870,000 times and has more than 95,000 active users across the health and social care sectors.

For more information and to access the newly updated elearning, please visit the Mental Capacity Act programme page.

Newly updated Dysphagia elearning now available

Posted on: March 14th, 2024 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

The Dysphagia elearning programme has recently been updated to help healthcare staff better manage the condition with people in care homes, hospitals and community settings.

Dysphagia, which is difficulty chewing and/or swallowing food and drinks, has serious implications for a person’s health and wellbeing, with increased likelihood of chest infections, malnutrition, dehydration, choking incidents and hospitalisations. Patients with dysphagia may be unable to swallow their medicines safely.

The programme has been updated to align with Level 2 of the Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Competency Framework. It is now easy for learners to compete the Essentials sessions (below) as a specific training course with an assessment and certificate to evidence their learning.

Once the Essentials sessions are completed the others can be explored at leisure.

The updated sessions are now called:

Essentials – Health and Care Staff
Essentials – Cooks
Managers
Balancing Risk and End of Life Care
Training Resources and Recipes
Dysphagia and Medicines

The ability to use the guide as a ‘dip in and out’ resource has been retained so that learners can easily refresh their memory or help explain something to a colleague. Care home staff, including managers, nurses, care workers, catering staff and the wider NHS team, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, speech and language therapists, dietitians, and others working with patients with dysphagia will find this resource helpful.

It has been updated by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust and NHS England elearning for healthcare.

For more information and to access the updated content, please visit the Dysphagia programme page.

Mental health assessment: Foundation update (March 2024)

Posted on: March 1st, 2024 by Kieron Bradshaw No Comments

Welcome to your March 2024 update from the Foundation elearning programme.

Mental health assessment is a vital part of all doctors’ professional practice. The sessions highlighted in this month’s update cover assessment and examination, delirium, psychotic disorders, self-harm, depression, and the Mental Health Act.

Sessions:

The sessions cover key areas in your curriculum on:

FPC 1: Clinical Assessment

FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation

FPC 5: Continuity of Care

Notes:

The Foundation elearning programme has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with NHS England elearning for healthcare (NHSE elfh), and is approved by the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO).

The online training has a range of other sessions that might help you. Please log in to the programme page to view more.

You can sign on to the elearning with your login supplied by elearning for healthcare at any time during your foundation training.

HORUS and TURAS have deep links to elearning for healthcare sessions from the Foundation Curriculum and are therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easier to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.

Telephone triage training supports assessment of cancer patients

Posted on: February 9th, 2024 by Kieron Bradshaw No Comments

Colleagues working with oncology and haematology patients can now access free online training to help utilise the UK Oncology Nurses Society (UKONS) triage tool in everyday practice.

The UKONS 24- Hour Triage Tool is a risk assessment tool that uses a red, amber and green (RAG) scoring system to identify and prioritise the presenting problems of patients contacting 24-hour advice lines. The aim of the new training is to provide a standardised programme that can be used as a basis for this specific triage process. The free training also provides generic information and guidance relating to organisational governance and the safe delivery of telephone assessment.

The elearning will be useful for all staff who undertake telephone assessment of cancer patients across secondary care, primary care and volunteer organisations (including service managers and practice educators).

You don’t need a healthcare email address to register, which means colleagues from third sector and voluntary organisations can access the training for free. Simply visit the UKONS Telephone Triage training programme page on the NHS Learning Hub to register and find out more.

elfh is a NHS England programme in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies