Electro-oculography
Dorothy Thompson
0.5 Hours
This session covers the underlying physiological changes measured by electro-oculography (EOG), clinical indications, how the test is carried out and the interpretation of an EOG report.
How to care for a patient after death in the community
Kathleen Greenway and Paula Johnson
1 Hours
This article provides nurses with information about how to care for a patient after death, and support their family and loved ones in the community setting. Care after death involves supporting the family and significant others, and providing personal care to the patient. It is important to ensure privacy, dignity and respec....
JPE 25.1: Theorists and Techniques: Connecting Education Theories to Lamaze Teaching
Lamaze International
1.25 Hours
Should childbirth educators connect education theory to technique? Is there more to learning about theorists than memorizing facts for an assessment? Are childbirth educators uniquely poised to glean wisdom from theorists and enhance their classes with interactive techniques inspiring participant knowledge and empowerment? Yes,....
General Approach to Assessment of Symptoms - Palliative Care
Howard Evans
0.50 Hours
This session provides a general approach to the assessment of symptoms, an essential first step before a plan for symptom management and care can be started. This session was reviewed by Amy Proffitt and Christina Faull and last updated in September 2015.
Influence of Transition Points and Crises on Decision-Making in Symptom Management - Palliative Care
Dee Traue
0.50 Hours
This session discusses how to deal with transition points and crises, both in terms of initial management options and how these options can be explained and discussed with patients approaching the end of life and their relatives and carers. The ways in which these transition points and crises influence decision-making in symptom....
Mental Health Awareness
Nicole Eady
0.5 Hours
This introductory session aims to raise awareness of mental health issues with healthcare staff. It is designed to give a broad overview of what encompasses mental illness whilst highlighting the link between mental and physical health diagnoses. It also provides some simple guidance on how best to care for someone with mental h....
History and Examination (anaesthesia)
John Carlisle
0.5 Hours
This session describes why history and examination are important when planning anaesthesia. Identifying factors putting the patient at additional risk should be identified prior to surgery so that peri-operative planning can take them into account.
Management of Depression in Palliative Care
Annabel Price and Max Henderson
0.5 Hours
This session provides a framework for an integrated management of depression.
Management of Cognitive Deterioration in Palliative Care
Leena Srivastava and Mary Comiskey
0.50 Hours
As the end of life approaches, patients with either advanced cancer or other progressive life-limiting illnesses may experience a reduction in their cognitive function, such as forgetfulness, confusion or agitation. This session provides a framework for the management of diminishing cognitive function. This session was review....
JPE 24.1: How Doula Care Can Advance the Goals of the Affordable Care Act: A Snapshot From NYC
Nan Strauss, JD, Katie Giessler, MPH, and Elan McAllister, BA
Doula care meets each of the triple aims of the Affordable Care Act: improving health outcomes for all, improving the experience of care, and lowering costs by reducing non-beneficial and unwanted medical interventions. Cost is the greatest barrier to use of doula support. Reimbursement for doula services by private insurance, M....
Human Factors and Patient Safety in Primary Care
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the field of human factors, including the human factors challenges in primary care. It also provides explanation of why improving patient safety requires us to consider human factors when designing healthcare systems. This session was reviewed by Louise Newson and last updated in November 201....
Health Promotion in Pregnancy: Obesity
Eugene Ntim Consultant Obstetrician
0.5 Hours
This session aims to raise awareness regarding obesity in pregnancy and its contribution to increased morbidity and mortality for the woman and her baby.This session was reviewed by Amanda Avery and updated in February 2017.
Foot Pain
Adrian Dunbar Associate Postgraduate Dean in General Practice Education for the Yorkshire and Humbe
0.25 Hours
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.
Examination of a 40-Year-Old Woman with Symptoms of an Overactive Thyroid
Gill North GP, Sheffield
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on an adult presenting with possible symptoms of an overactive thyroid in primary care.
Emotional Development
Barbara Maughan
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the process of emotional development with a description of the basic emotions, when they first appear, and what they mean. We will look at how infants learn to discriminate between emotions and develop secondary emotions. We will describe the importance of parenting in emotional development. We will look at....
Intervening to Reduce Risk Promoting STI Testing
Philippa Matthews
0.5 Hours
This is the third of four complementary sessions on behavioural and clinical interventions to reduce the risk of patients having, or developing in the future, sexual health problems. The three patients in this session have a range of needs, however all of them might benefit from having an STI or HIV test. We also consider the is....
Examination of a 60-Year-Old Smoker With Shortness of Breath
Simon Ward - General Practitioner North Nottinghamshire
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting in primary care with worsening breathlessness.
Eye Assessment and Examination
Stella Hornby and Caroline Mawer
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to conduct a quick, general examination of the eyes of an adult in a primary care context. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in February 2015.
Feeding Children with Development Difficulties
John Puntis - Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Leeds General Infirmary
0.5 Hours
This session explores the difficulty children with neurological disabilities commonly encounter with feeding, together with associated problems that can result in growth failure and malnutrition-related multi-system complications. It covers assessment and management, which often involves a range of professionals including a diet....
Neutropenic Sepsis and Sepsis in Maternity -Complex Safety Issues and Future Development
Simon Stockley and James Larcombe and Alison Tavare
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will explore neutropenic sepsis and sepsis in maternity, potential opportunities for prevention and some of the recent changes and innovation relevant to sepsis.
Hypothalamic and Pituitary Function
Simon Fletcher
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the interaction between the hypothalamus and both parts of the pituitary gland. A description of the relevant hormones and their actions is also included.
Indications and Evidence for Proton Beam Therapy
Roger Taylor
0.75 Hours
This session aims to present the clinical rationale for proton beam therapy (PBT), and the evidence for treatment of different types of cancer.
Neonatal Jaundice
Tauseef Mehrali
0.5 Hours
A case-based approach to the recognition and management of neonatal jaundice.
Introduction to Insulin Injections
Charlotte Avann
0.5 Hours
This session describes how an insulin injection should be given using a pen device.
Introduction to Carbohydrate Counting
Charlotte Avann
0.5 Hours
This session provides the knowledge required to calculate the carbohydrate content of foods for a well, newly diagnosed child with type I diabetes on a basal bolus regime.