Sickle Cell Disease: Genetics and Diagnostics
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease in Ghana: Genetics and Diagnostics is a course that provides healthcare workers with a foundational understanding of sickle cell disease. The course features interactive content that will explain what sickle cell disease is and the genetics underlying this inherited blood disorder. Finally, the importance of....
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents explores the lived experience of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease and their families. The course features interactive content that will provide healthcare workers with the knowledge they need to improve care, quality of life, and health outcomes....
Hepatitis B & C and HIV Co-infection
Janice Main and Gary Brook
This session provides an overview of HIV/hepatitis (B and C) co-infection. It builds on your knowledge of viral hepatitis natural history, presentation, investigation and management.
Hepatitis B: Management
Jane Collier and Gary Brook
This session describes the indications for treating hepatitis B, treatment options and how to monitor treatment.
Pre-operative Management of Endocrine Disorders
Ridzuan Farouk
This session identifies common causes of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. It describes classification of hyperparathyroidism. Disorders of the adrenal and pituitary gland are then outlined.
Health Promotion in Pregnancy: Obesity
Eugene Ntim and Nina Khazaezadeh
This session aims to raise awareness regarding obesity in pregnancy and its contribution to increased morbidity and mortality for the woman and her baby.
Childhood Obesity
Faye McCleery and Sunaina Khanna
This session explores the diagnosis, management and prevention of childhood obesity. It also looks at how to identify and manage obesity-related comorbidity.
Acute Mania
Pius Mwangi and Simon Githui
We welcome you to this module on acute mania. The aim of this two-hour module is to give you more insights on how best to identify, manage and prevent acute mania. You will also learn more about the role of a nurse in management of acute mania. This module has, at the tail end, five multiple choice questions that you can use to....
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Pius Mwangi and Simon Githui
Welcome to this module on Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). We shall discuss the historical development of ECT, describe how ECT works and the procedure for ECT administration. We shall at the end explore the role of the nurse during administration of ECT. This is two-hour module, and we encourage you to take short notes as you p....
The Child With a Swollen Joint
Sharmila Jandial and Helen Foster
This session describes approaches to the assessment and management of children presenting with one or more swollen joints. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in January 2022.
Foot Pain
Adrian Dunbar
Foot pain is a common presentation in primary care. This session considers patients presenting with heel, midfoot and forefoot pain and follows their presentation, assessment and management. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in January 2022.
Osteoporosis
Anne Sutcliffe
This session examines a range of risk factors for osteoporosis and considers appropriate investigations and treatment options for the disease. Lifestyle implications are also discussed. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in August 2019.
The Limping Child
Iain Goff and Helen Foster
This session considers the assessment, examination and treatment of limps in children. Red flag symptoms are described along with an overview of the consequences of a late diagnosis of conditions such as septic arthritis, Perthe’s disease, slipped capital femoral ephiphysis and inflammatory arthritis. This session was reviewe....
Heart Failure in End of Life Care
Amy Gadoud, Karen Hogg, Shona Jenkins and Yvonne Millerick
This session has been written by a multidisciplinary group of cardiology and palliative care specialists to help palliative care clinicians become more confident with managing patients with heart failure and knowing when to liaise with heart failure services.
The Advocating and Educating for Quality Improvement (A-EQUIP) Model
Clare Capito and Emma Wadey
The A-EQUIP framework is deployed by the Professional Midwife Advocate (PMA) and more recently by the Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) roles. This elearning resource explores the A-EQUIP model from a conceptual and practical perspective, and also demonstrates how it can support a midwife or nurse in practice. There is an....
Interstitial Lung Disease Case Studies
Rathai Anandanadesan
This session considers different types of interstitial lung disease and key investigations used to arrive at a diagnosis. The different treatment and management options available for patients are also covered.
Examination of a 20-year-old Woman with Episodes of Breathlessness
Niki Roberts
This session discusses how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on an adult presenting with episodes of breathlessness in primary care.
Mediastinal Nodal Disease
Hilary Moss
In this session, we look at identification of normal and abnormally enlarged lymph nodes on the plain chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT).
Tuberculosis Case Finding
Dr Million Molla, Dr Hikma Fekadu, Meazashwork Assefa, Dr Andargachew Kumsa, Dr Eshetu Abdissa, Endale Mengesha, Dr Kalkidan Yae, Dr Tamiru Assefa, Dr Anteneh Kassa, Wondimu Gebrekiristos, Dr Eshetu Kebede,Ekulinet Misganaw, Bekalu Assaminew
In this module, we will learn about TB Case finding Strategies, TB screening, and TB contact investigation. this will enable you to evaluate and Identify presumptive TB cases at different settings, conduct screen active TB, and investigate and manage TB Contact.
Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives
TFHO and Ghana Health Service under MPHD and funded by U.S. Agency for International Development
This course is part of a blended learning package that will provides Family planning service providers with requisite knowledge, skills and competency to provide a person centered, quality Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) services. It will serve as a framework for a complimentary in-person practical training and mento....
The Child with Respiratory Distress
Geoff Burnhill
This session will investigate how to differentiate between wheezing and other forms of respiratory distress. Later, it will identify the most common causes of respiratory distress in children and offer guidance on how to determine if a child in respiratory distress needs urgent care.
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents
By The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents explores the lived experience of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease and their families. The course features interactive content that will provide healthcare workers with the knowledge they need to improve care, quality of life, and health outcomes....
Digitally-Assisted Technical Assistance Support for Rapid Test
Dr Tim Tucker, Makhosazana Makhanya and Prof. Al Chale Abimiku
On 14 July 2022, ASLM’s LabCoP convened a webinar about the Rapid Test Continuous Quality Improvement (RT-CQI) initiative developed by PEPFAR and the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. In partnership with other stakeholders, it supports the strengthening of capacity and ongoing assessment of facility and individual te....
Guidance Selecting Solutions for TB Detection: A New WHO/GLI Manual
Patricia Hall-Eidson
On 31 May 2022, ASLM, in collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI), and TB-CAPT project, convened a session on guidance in selecting patient-cantered, setting-specific solutions for tuberculosis (TB) detection. This new WHO/ Global Laboratory Initiative manual recommends that all patients with....
Standard Operating Protocol for Management of Refractive Errors
Dr Seun Odiase
This module will teach you about the common refractive errors of the human eye and their classification, signs and symptoms. You will learn how to examine and identify various forms of refractive errors and determine how to treat them and when to refer to the next level of management. You will also learn about the information, e....