Emergency Cardiac Procedures: Pathology
Alison Parnell
0.5 Hours
This session will cover some of the pathological diagnoses that can cause haemodynamic instability and cardiac arrest, excluding left and right ventricular (LV and RV) pathology, which are covered elsewhere. Therefore hypovolaemia (including sepsis), cardiac tamponade, pulmonary embolus (PE), thoracic aortic dilatation and acute....
Migraine as a TIA Mimic
Nicola Giffin
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the pathogenesis of migraine with aura, the visual, sensory and motor symptoms that may present and how to differentiate migraine with aura from TIA.
Hospital Social Work
Tes Smith and Peter Southern
0.5 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
0.5 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
0.5 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.
Level 3 - Introduction: Attaining and Maintaining Safeguarding Competences
Peter Sidebotham
0.5 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
0.5 Hours
This session will explore what is commonly understood by the term ‘hard to reach’ and what this understanding leads practitioners to conclude.
How to Take a History Red Eye
Rosemary Robinson
0.5 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.
Looked After Children Part 1: Challenges and Principles
Douglas Simkiss
0.5 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.
IUT: Removal
Wendy Morris
0.5 Hours
This session helps you to work out when it is safe to remove a Cu-IUD/LNG-IUS and describes the removal process step by step.
Human factors and analysis of adverse events
Ivan Walton
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the importance of reporting a clinical incident. You will learn what to do if you are involved in a clinical incident and how these reports are used.
Healthy Development in Adolescence
Russel Viner
0.5 Hours
This session introduces normal development in adolescents in key biological, psychological and social domains, and the impact of these upon their health and illness. The importance of psychosocial development for long-term condition self-management and concordance is also discussed.
Managing Low Urine Output
Katie Scales
0.5 Hours
This session deals with the presentation and management of the patient with deteriorating urine output.
Nausea and Vomiting: Investigations and Management
Farhan Shahid and Anwar Ahmad Chahal
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the common causes of nausea and vomiting and the aetiology behind such presentations. Treatment options are discussed in terms of the cause of the symptoms.
History in Collapse
Carla Cadiz Aravena
0.25 Hours
This session covers how to take a history for a patient who presents with collapse.
How Environment Affects Children's Mental Health
Barbara Maughan
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the social and environmental factors associated with children and young people´s mental health. It also explores the ways in which they may have an impact, so that potential difficulties and risks can be identified.
Neonatal Assessment and Examination
Soumendra Chowdhury
0.5 Hours
This session explains the six to eight week 'baby check' review and describes some of the common or important abnormalities found in young infants. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in September 2014.
Making Hospital Services Youth Friendly
Dominic McCutheon Clinical Practice Facilitator
0.5 Hours
This session explores the strong evidence and need for dedicated adolescent services in hospitals, and how to implement youth friendly services in the hospital setting.
Hospital Based Services for Young People
Christine Powell
0.5 Hours
This session explores the needs of young people accessing hospital services. It examines young people friendly services and the advantages and disadvantages of adolescent inpatient wards.
Common and Serious Respiratory Causes of Cough
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on understanding and recognising the common causes of cough and the underlying risk factors.
Level 2 Part B – Response in Secondary Care
Andrea Goddard Consultant Paediatrician
0.5 Hours
This session uses case studies to help clinical staff who have some degree of contact with children and young people and/or parents/carers to know what are the appropriate responses when they have concerns that a child or young person is being maltreated. It is important to note that the term 'children' means children and young....
Filters, Humidifiers and Scavenging Systems (anaesthesia)
Lisa Penny
0.5 Hours
This session covers the principles of breathing system filters, humidification and anaesthetic gas scavenging.
Local and Regional Anaesthesia
Gavin Werrett
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the basic definitions of local and regional anaesthesia (LA and RA), and advises when to use each as a sole technique and when to use in combination with general anaesthesia (GA). It also covers consent issues, minimal safety standards for block performance and briefly outlines a few of the more common tech....
Intravenous Fluid Therapy
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.5 Hours
The session begins by describing the body fluid compartments and daily fluid requirements. It then considers how each type of IV fluid available is best suited to replacing losses from each compartment.
Haemorrhage and Hypovolaemia
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the physiological response to hypovolaemia, and the strategies used to replace fluid losses with appropriate intravenous fluids and blood products. It also compares the differences in the physiological responses to acute hypovolaemia from haemorrhage with those of fluid loss from causes such as gastro intes....