Hospital Social Work
Tes Smith and Peter Southern
0.50 Hours
This session will enable understanding about the history and diversity within the role of the hospital social worker and how it contributes to good end of life care (EoLC).
Listening Skills
Simon Cornwell
0.50 Hours
The session introduces the learner to some of the overarching policy and legislative guidance that underpins the importance of listening to children, through to a summary of listening skills. We will consider barriers to effective listening, include issues of diversity and disability, and take age into account when thinking abou....
Health Promotion
Mayur Lakhani
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the concept of health and well-being. It shows how important it is to consider this agenda in the consultation and the obligations of the general practitioner (GP). This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in February 2015.
Fall on Outstretched Hand
Nigel Raby
1.00 Hours
The purpose of this session is to enable you to identify the injuries likely to be encountered in a patient after a fall on the outstretched hand.
Gastrostomy Insertion
Hans-Ulrich Laasch
0.75 Hours
This session describes the different techniques of siting a gastrostomy feeding tube and the advantages and limitations of these approaches. It also illustrates some complications and how to avoid them.
Further Diseases of the Appendix and Colon
Kani Vendhan and Bruce Fox
0.50 Hours
This session covers the radiological features of diseases of the appendix. Features on both conventional and recent imaging modalities are discussed.
Male Breast Disease
Sue Barter, Hilary Dobson and Ruchi Sinnatamby
0.50 Hours
This session will help you gain an understanding of the risk factors for, and clinical and imaging features of, common male breast disease.
Imaging Loin Pain and Renal Colic
Philip Haslam
This session examines the renal causes of loin pain and the imaging modalities used.
Imaging of Renal Transplant Dysfunction: Early Complications
Grant Baxter
0.50 Hours
The historical and clinical background to renal transplantation and the normal grey scale and colour Doppler ultrasound appearances of the transplant kidney was introduced in session Module 4c/Genito-Urinary and Adrenal/Imaging the Transplant Kidney Introduction (300-0427). This session describes the early complications that are....
Level 3 - Introduction: Attaining and Maintaining Safeguarding Competences
Peter Sidebotham
0.50 Hours
This introduction sets the scene for six further Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Young People sessions. Each session examines a common safeguarding scenario. You will explore what safeguarding children means for you as a member of clinical staff working with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and how you work w....
Hard to Reach and Seldom-heard Families
Karen Whittaker
0.50 Hours
This session will explore what is commonly understood by the term ‘hard to reach’ and what this understanding leads practitioners to conclude.
Looked After Children Part 1: Challenges and Principles
Douglas Simkiss
0.50 Hours
In this and Session Safeguarding/Looked After Children Part 2, we will explore the evidence for the statement that looked after children “have a higher level of health, mental health and health promotion needs than others of the same age” and look at how the Healthy Child Programme can meet these needs.
Looked After Children Part 2: Influencing Factors and Outcomes of Care Journeys
Douglas Simkiss
0.50 Hours
In this and session Safeguarding/Looked After Children Part 1, we will explore the evidence for the statement that looked after children “have a higher level of health, mental health and health promotion needs than others of the same age” and look at how the Healthy Child Programme can meet these needs.
Laser-Tissue Interactions
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the ways in which laser light interacts with tissue, identifies the role of selected laser targets within tissues and explores the effect of laser parameters on laser absorption.
Intense Pulsed Light and LED Devices
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the characteristics of intense pulsed light and light emitting diode devices and their current clinical applications, with a discussion of their hazards to human health.
Encouraging Feedback and Using it
Pamela Hampson and Marilyn Thirlway
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on how to encourage and use effective feedback. It demonstrates the skills of active listening which are used to ensure that you and the speaker fully understand each other. The strategies of appreciative questioning and the methods for checking understanding are covered. Once you have looked at how to recei....
How to Take a History Red Eye
Rosemary Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to help you take a focused history from a patient presenting with an acute red eye and to help form a differential diagnosis, even before you examine the eye.
Improving the Quality and Safety of Care through Health Informatics
Diane Bullman
This session will look at some of the ways the health service continuously monitors, improves and assures the quality and safety of patient care. It examines how informatics is an essential tool which supports these processes and how it can be used to improve care.
Liberating Learning - Classroom and Learner-based Strategy
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session explores classroom and learner-based learning activities. It demonstrates many of these with videos of case scenarios and offers practical suggestions to liberate learning.
Interpretation of Ventilation Perfusion Studies: Normality
Bob Bury
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the concept of probability banding in assessing the likelihood of pulmonary embolus (PE) from a ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scan.
Neuroendocrine Imaging with MIBG Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy (SRS)
Heshan Panditaratne and Andrew Scarsbrook
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the basics of neuroendocrine tumour cellular pathology as the basis for targeted radionuclide imaging. It will review the clinical indications for somatostatin receptor and metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy, discuss technical performance parameters, illustrate physiological tracer distributio....
Malignant Melanoma 99m Tc: Sentinel Node
Richard Graham
0.50 Hours
This session will discuss how lymphoscintigraphy is used to stage malignant melanoma.
Isotope Cystography
Isky Gordon
0.50 Hours
This session covers the use of radioisotope tracers for cystography and detection of reflux.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Mike Mayo
0.25 Hours
This session introduces the fundamentals of electromagnetic radiation and is a prerequisite to the other e-learning sessions in Module 8a Physics.
Factors Affecting Dose in Radiography
Chris Taylor and Anna Burch
0.50 Hours
Both the radiation dose to the patient and the quality of the image are influenced by the equipment selected and the technique used to obtain an x-ray image. This session will deal with the effect on patient dose, while the next session, Factors Affecting Image Quality (300-0701), will deal with the effect on image quality.