Revisiting early-stage COVID-19 strategy options
Philip Machanick
When I first submitted this paper in May 2020, I wrote with some urgency because I believed the issue of asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 was not receiving the attention it deserved, and updated the paper before any reviews were in. All the versions of the paper, read in conjunction of the reviews, form a living review, sho....
Knowledge and compliance with Covid-19 infection prevention and control measures among health workers in regional referral hospitals in northern Uganda: a cross-sectional online survey
Sharon Bright Amanya,Richard Nyeko,Bonniface Obura,Joy Acen,Caroline Nabasirye,Rebecca Nakaziba,Florence Oyella,Victor Afayo,Mark Okwir
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is arguably the greatest global health threat of our time. As of January 24, 2021, 19,462,112 people were infected globally, with 2,112,759 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued interim guidance on Covid-19 IPC that emphasized several measures, including applying standard precauti....
Development of a simple and valid nutrition screening tool for pediatric hospitalized patients with acute illness
Hoda Atef Abdelsattar Ibrahim,Rasha Abdel-Raouf,Ahmed S. Zeid,Eman H. Elsebaie,Shaimaa Abdalaleem,Aya A. Amin,Hanna Aboulghar
Nutrition is an essential factor in the development, growth, and functioning of any child. Good nutritional status provides energy and nutrients which are essential to maintain our life and promote social, physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Childhood malnutrition is known to be a global health concern as it is compl....
Understanding Diabetes and Hypertension: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment
The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicable Diseases Consortium Project
Medical Aid Films This animation aims to help community health workers in humanitarian settings gain a better understanding of two common non-communicable diseases - diabetes and hypertension - including their symptoms, associated risk factors and treatment. It was produced for The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicabl....
How to provide antenatal care
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains the importance of antenatal care and in particular, the principles of ‘focused antenatal care’ (FANC). It describes what is involved in the four visits that make up FANC, including taking a patient’s history, examinations, checks and giving information. This film is for use in health work....
Counselling for Comprehensive Abortion Care
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film reanacts the best practicies providing abortion councelling.
Understanding healthy eating during pregnancy
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains how women can eat healthily during their pregnancy to ensure their own health and that of their child. This film is for use in community health education
Child health: understanding signs of diarrhoea
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film is about the important signs and symptoms to look for in a sick child, with a focus on diarrhoea. This film is for use in community health education.
Child health: understanding signs of pneumonia
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film is about the important signs and symptoms to look for in a sick child, with a focus on pneumonia. This film is for use in community health education.
What to do when a newborn baby is not breathing
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film shows the key steps to follow if a newborn baby is not breathing. This film is for use in community health education
HIV Paediatric Case Study Training Films • 05. Martha
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films 13-month-old Martha is an HIV positive baby who started ART very late and has developed an abscess on her right armpit - around the lymph node below the arm where her BCG was done. This is one of a set of HIV paediatric films made by parter organisation Picturing Health. These interactive training films ar....
HIV Paediatric Case Study Training Films • 02. Baby Chisomo
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films Baby Chisomo is a newborn who has been brought to hospital after being found abandoned by a river. Because the status of the mother is unknown, she is treated as if she has been exposed to HIV. This is one of a set of HIV paediatric films made by parter organisation Picturing Health. These interactive trai....
Nutrition: An Introduction
Gwyneth Cotes, Altrena Mukuria and Abigail Kaplan Ramage
This course discusses basic concepts of good nutrition, common nutritional deficiencies, causes of undernutrition, and the magnitude of the problem. It also outlines the major population-based interventions to improve nutritional status, as well as key indicators for measuring and monitoring progress in nutrition.
Strategies to Improve Vascular Access Outcomes (Webinar)
Dr Andrea Viecelli
Improving vascular access outcomes
Diabetes, CKD and SGLT2 Inhibitors
Renal Society of Australasia
This Webinar will focus on evidence that sodium-glucose-linked cotransport inhibitors (SGLT2i) reduces the development of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), cardiovascular events, including heart failure and cardiac death in diabetic and non-diabetic patients, with and without chronic kidney disease.
Assessment and Initial Management of Clients Presenting for Intrapartum Care
Jhpiego
Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected Interim guidance. Note: information on COVID-19 is changing rapidly. This information was up to date as of 25 March 2020. Do not assume it will be current after this date. Take note of WHO guidance: Clinical man....
Module 1A - EU Functioning. How EU Came Together?
Prof. Dr. Paul De Raeve, EFN Secretary General
Combining sovereignty means that each member state delegates part of its power to common institutions that make decisions on specific issues of common interest at European level. This course will describe how this came to be.
Establishing Your Professional Identity - Module B: Processes of Critical Thinking
Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP and Barbara Leach, RN, BSN, MS
2.00 Hours
The purpose of the Establishing Your Professional Identity course is to apply evidence-based grounding skills to bridge the gaps in the learners’ knowledge, skills and practice about Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution & Negotiation, Leadership & Collaboration, and Interacting with Difficult Individual....
Establishing Your Professional Identity - Module F: Interacting with Difficult Individuals
Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP and Barbara Leach, RN, BSN, MS
2.00 Hours
The purpose of the Establishing Your Professional Identity course is to apply evidence-based grounding skills to bridge the gaps in the learners’ knowledge, skills and practice about Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution & Negotiation, Leadership & Collaboration, and Interacting with Difficult Individual....
Elderly Nutrition for CNAs
Ms Olympia Resol:RN, MPH, CRNI, CARN
4.00 Hours
Are you working with elderly patients? How is their nutritional status? Are they eating adequately? This content provides a comprehensive course on the nutritional needs of elderly. Topics include the science of food nutrients, nutritional status assessment, risks and prevention of malnutrition.
Module 4: Midwifery Services
Dalarna University
In this module, you will watch the presentation, and read the handouts and supporting materials so as to learn about the role, functions, responsibilities and activities of a licensed and educated midwife in Bangladesh. You will meet the UNFPA national midwifery officer, who will present information about the role of midwives an....
Maternal high dependency care
Sam Bassett
The Royal College of Midwives Increasing numbers of pregnant and postnatal women require higher levels of care, including maternity high dependency care (MHDC). This increase is likely to continue due to the higher number of women entering maternity services with existing comorbidities and/or obstetric complications
COVID 19 Series: Response to a pandemic
Professor Paul Cosford
In this talk Professor Paul Cosford and Professor Sir Simon Wessely discuss the current and future state of COVID-19 testing, from the rapid research involved in creating tests to the complexities of scaling up the country’s testing capacity. The RSM COVID-19 Series is for health professionals, by health professionals; a seri....
COVID-19 Series: Coronavirus: What do we know?
Professor Peter Openshaw and Professor Sir Simon Wessely
Insights on coronaviruses and other lung diseases with Professor and research on the COVID-19 virus. Consider making a donation to the RSM: www.rsm.ac/donation All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM.
Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
A Johns Hopkins University Affiliate
The Oral PrEP eLearning Tool for Clinicians course provides instructions for managing PrEP services in accordance with the information in the WHO Implementation Tool for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis of HIV Infection. The course is for practicing clinicians around the globe who currently have a client population at high-risk for c....