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Foundation e-learning programme - February update

Posted on: February 12th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

Foundation elearning programme: Professional Capability: 3 Behaves in accordance with ethical and legal requirements.

Foundation specific elearning – The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges worked in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (elfh) to develop a Foundation Programme specific elearning programme which is approved by UKFPO.

The Mental Health Act protects the rights of vulnerable adults and children; a group of the elearning sessions outline the responsibilities of the people who care for them.

The elearning programme explores how the General Medical Council (GMC) supports career development, looking at the topics of registration, the Foundation Programme and career development.

There are sessions which focus on the safeguarding of adults and children in primary and secondary care.

The importance of protecting data is also explored in sessions about information security and the Data Protection Act.

Sessions include:

  • Confidentiality and Privacy
  • Mental Health Act
  • Mental Capacity
  • Mental Capacity Assessment
  • Capacity and Difficult Consent
  • Use of Restraint
  • HIV Testing
  • DVLA
  • How to avoid the GMC Disciplinary Committee
  • Infection Control: Diarrhoea in an Inpatient
  • Completion of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Part 3
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • GMC Registration and Post Graduate Observation
  • Safeguarding Adults: Level 2
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 1 Safeguarding for All Staff Working in a Healthcare Setting
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part A – Recognition
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part B – Response in Secondary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part C – Record in Secondary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part B – Response in Primary Care
  • Safeguarding Children: Level 2 Part C – Record in Primary Care
  • Information Security
  • An Introduction to the Data Protection Act

If you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice, try some of the free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

Sign in to the elearning with the login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

Breastmilk Provision for Preterm and Sick Neonates e-learning programme launched

Posted on: February 6th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England (HEE) has worked in partnership with the Thames Valley and Wessex Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, University Southampton Hospitals, Oxford University Hospitals and HEE elearning for healthcare (elfh) to develop a learning resource to improve education and training of all relevant staff in the support of breast milk provision for preterm and sick infants.

The elearning programme will also enable healthcare professionals to improve breastmilk provision rates at discharge from neonatal units.

The content is suitable for all professionals who work to support to improving breastmilk provision including:

  • Nurses and healthcare assistants
  • Midwives and maternity healthcare support workers
  • Medical trainees
  • All medical staff

This resource can be used as a preparatory learning experience and can also be used for performance support by healthcare professionals. The content is split into four main sections:

1. After delivery – what the healthcare professional should know and help the mother to understand before she starts expressing breastmilk

2. Starting to express – how to support a mother practically and emotionally as she begins to express

3. Increasing milk supply – how to support mothers to maintain and increase their breastmilk supply

4. Resources – access to a set of useful job aids and reference tools.

The elearning programme is available to access for free via the elfh Hub and the Electronic Staff Record.

For more information about the elearning programme and details on how to access the programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/breastmilk-provision-for-preterm-and-sick-neonates/

New module for e-FACE e-learning programme released

Posted on: January 5th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The e-FACE elearning programme is releasing a new module, Medical Skills in Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS), to coincide with the Junior Trainees Group Conference on 6 and 7 January 2018 in Cambridge.

Developed by British Association for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh), the module includes 21 sessions aimed at dental core trainees and junior trainees.

The module focuses on key topics, including: the unwell patient, practical prescribing and pharmacology, critical care and tracheostomy management.

The full list of sessions follows:

  • Approaching an Unwell Patient
  • Understanding ECGs
  • ECG Interpretation
  • ABG Interpretation
  • Interpreting Chest X-rays
  • The Day Case Patient
  • The Major Surgery Patient
  • The Emergency Patient
  • Interpreting Blood Test Results
  • Fluids
  • Analgesia
  • Bisphosphonates
  • Anticoagulants
  • The Healthcare Team
  • ITU and HDU
  • Electrolytes
  • Immunodeficiency
  • Basic Knowledge about Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
  • Emergency Management of a Tracheostomy or Laryngectomy
  • General and Nursing Care of a Tracheostomy or Laryngectomy
  • Emergency Front of Neck Airway.

The sessions are available on the elfh Hub and will be made available via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) soon.

For more information about the elearning programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/oral-and-maxillofacial-surgery/ 

Foundation e-learning - Delivering patient centred care and maintaining trust

Posted on: January 5th, 2018 by Ed Neville No Comments

elearning for healthcare sessions in Foundation elearning Project: Professional Capability: 1 Acts professionally and Professional Capability: 2 Delivers patient centred care and maintains trust

The elearning sessions in these Professional Capabilities explore the relationship between doctors and their patients and how to deliver effective patient centered care.

‘Handling Complaints’ provides essential information about common factors leading to complaints, how to minimise these, the procedures involved and what your responsibilities are as a foundation doctor.

The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) protects the right of vulnerable people and this group of sessions cover topics such as assessing capacity, consent, patient autonomy and safeguarding. You will also consider the multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach to healthcare in the hospital and patient support after discharge.

Sessions:

  • Handling Complaints
  • Mental Capacity
  • Mental Capacity Assessment
  • Use of Restraint
  • Capacity and Difficult Consent
  • Patient Autonomy and Related Ethics
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Confidentiality and Privacy
  • Keeping the Patient at the Centre of Care
  • Seeing the Whole Picture
  • Family Dynamics Affecting Discharge.

 

For more information about the elearning programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

Neurophysiology module now live as part of Ophthalmology programme

Posted on: December 22nd, 2017 by Alex Tytko No Comments

A new elearning module has now gone live on Neurophysiology as part of the Ophthalmology programme – Eye-Site. This course provides information on the principal visual electrophysiology techniques, describing how each probes the underlying physiology and anatomy, and how they can be used in diagnosis and monitoring of ophthalmic disease.

On completion of the course you will be able to describe which areas of the visual system are tested by the common electrophysical investigations, demonstrate an understanding of how visual electrophysiology tests complement other investigations in the clinical setting and recognise situations where visual electrophysiology tests are likely to make a useful contribution to the clinical care setting.

Please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/ophthalmology/ for more information about this programme.

Alex Tytko
Head of Education and Training Department
RCOphth

Learning resource launched to improve care for babies, mothers and families

Posted on: December 7th, 2017 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

A new elearning programme has been launched to help healthcare professionals improve outcomes for babies, mothers and families through the delivery of safer care.

The learning modules, developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare, NHS Improvement and a range of experts, focus on four clinical areas:

  • respiratory conditions
  • hypoglycaemia
  • jaundice
  • asphyxia (perinatal hypoxia–ischaemia).

An additional module also raises awareness of the importance of keeping mother and baby together.

The programme is part of the Avoiding Term Admissions unto Neonatal units “Atain” initiative, which aims to reduce avoidable causes of harm that can lead to infants born at term (ie ≥ 37+0 weeks gestation) being admitted to a neonatal unit.

For more information about the programme please click here: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/avoiding-term-admissions-into-neonatal-units/

Life as a Clinical Lead

Posted on: December 5th, 2017 by Dorothy Keane No Comments

When in June 2010 I began my work as Clinical Lead for the elearning for healthcare Image Interpretation project I could not have foreseen how it would grow and develop over the subsequent years. When we set out to develop high quality materials to support the radiography workforce our remit was to cover the adult skeleton. Having published these sessions the overwhelmingly positive response spurred us to move on to the paediatric skeleton.

These 50 sessions seemed at the time an enormous piece of work, however the project now encompasses over 400 sessions covering the breadth of radiographic practice: all modalities are covered as well as generic subjects such as imaging patients with dementia, learning difficulties and personalising care within radiology. This support has now extended to a wide range of health professionals as well as radiographers.

Over time both the project and my role within it has developed. I have moved to a part-time role with the College of Radiographers; leading a team of authors and editors, designing, writing and scoping content. The project manager and myself spend significant amounts of time updating and revising sessions as well as producing new ones to ensure we reflect current practice and technological innovation. For instance, since 2015 234 older sessions have been updated to ensure they can be used on tablets and phones as well as computer screens.

Throughout the process we have kept to the same principles: high quality, relevance to the profession, responsiveness to feedback, ease of access. Providing a service to the profession as we develop into new areas are what the College values and I personally am very proud of.

I am grateful that after a career in radiography of almost 40 years I have this opportunity to share learning and support colleagues on a national basis. I’m proud of our profession and still have a passion for learning more – something that, on the evidence of the growing cohort of users and the demand for new sessions, is shared across the imaging community.

For more information about the Image Interpretation programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/image-interpretation/

Dorothy Keane
Image Interpretation Clinical Lead

Achieving professional capabilities in Foundation curriculum

Posted on: December 5th, 2017 by Ed Neville No Comments

If you are you busy trying to achieve your Professional Capabilities on your Foundation curriculum, how about doing some free elearning sessions for Professional Capability 20: Contributes to quality improvement. The sessions are as follows:

  • Audit
  • Evidence Based Medicine in Clinical Practice
  • Common Study Designs in Clinical Research
  • Explaining Evidence/Guidelines/Protocols to Patients
  • Guidelines in Clinical Practice
  • Searching the Literature and Locating Papers
  • How to Review a Paper

They have already been mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum and can be directly recorded in your e-portfolio.

The elearning sessions in Professional Capability: 20 Contributes to quality improvement, look at audit and evidence based practice. It outlines the study designs used in medical practice. You are provided with a guide to developing a structured research strategy which will help you find journal articles relevant to your clinical questions. How to evaluate a journal article is discussed using a linked example paper from the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

For more information about the Foundation elearning programme and to access the learning visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

Ed Neville
Foundation elearning programme
Clinical Lead

Literature Searching e-learning is live

Posted on: November 29th, 2017 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with librarians at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, to develop elearning modules to support health and social care professionals to find evidence for their work and study.

The modules have been developed for clinical and non-clinical staff to help build confidence in conducting a literature search and are suitable for novice searchers and those wishing to refresh their knowledge. Each of the modules should take no more than 20 minutes to complete and are structured in such a way that each module can be “dipped into” for reference, or completed in full during one session.

Three of the seven modules are now live, with the remaining four being due to launch soon. The live modules are:

  • Module 1 Introduction to searching
  • Module 2 Where do I start searching?
  • Module 3 How do I start to develop a search strategy?

To access the elearning visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/literature-searching/

If you require further assistance contact your local healthcare library team. Check the Health Library and Information Services Directory to find your local library.

If there is no arrangement in place, your key contact is the Regional Library and Knowledge Services lead:

HEE London and the South East  louise.goswami@hee.nhs.uk

HEE Midlands and the East  ruth.carlyle@hee.nhs.uk

HEE North  david.stewart@nhs.net

HEE South  helen.bingham@hee.nhs.uk

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