The use of information technology to improve medication safety in hospitals
Prof. Pascal Bonnabry
During this webinar Prof Pascal Bonnabry, Head of pharmacy at the Geneva university hospitals (HUG), Switzerland and Vice-president of patient safety Switzerland explains how to define a global strategy to improve the medication process in a university hospital; how GS1 identifiers fit in to reach the overall strategy; the impac....
People Who Inject Drugs: Motivations, Initiations, and Socioeconomics
Disa Dahlman, M.D., M.A., Ph.D. candidate, et al.
2.00 Hours
People who inject drugs (PWID) often have poor health and lack access to health care. This CEU course examines whether PWID engage in self-treatment through nonmedical prescription opioid use (NMPOU). Further, whether a history of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) enrollment is associated with a reduced odds of PWID providin....
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Clinical Aspects
Amudha Thangavelu, Sean Duffy
This session covers the clinical background to the causes of abnormal uterine bleeding and indicates where radiology has a role in its investigation.
Investigation and Management of Paracetamol Overdose
Louise Ma
This session considers the basic pathophysiology underlying paracetamol overdoses. It then discusses appropriate investigation and management of the clinical problem.
Initial Management of Hand Burns
Helen Wohlgemut and Nadeem Khwaja
This session will describe how to reduce oedema in burns of the hand and offers guidance on how to assess the need for early surgery in patients with such injuries. Later sections will explore the principles of early surgery in burns of the hand.
An Underperforming Colleague - What To Do
Fatima Jaffer
This session discusses the complex and often challenging issues of underperformance in doctors across the training grades, and to identify and help to manage and support trainees in difficulty. UKFP Curriculum 2021 This elearning session covers some of the behaviours in: FPC 5: Continuity of Care: Contribute to safe ong....
Disability In Adolescence
Janet McDonagh
0.50 Hours
This session addresses the impact of having a long-term condition and disability during adolescence on education and vocation. In addition, the session explores the legislation in place to support young people achieving their vocational potential.
Day to Day Management
Paresh Dawda
0.50 Hours
This session considers leadership methods for the handling of day to day management issues.
Adolocent Healthcare - Confidentiality in Consultations and in Health Services
Victor Larcher
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the main principles and legal aspects of confidentiality as applied to the care of young people. It will also help you understand the practical issues related to delivery of confidential services to young people. The session also examines the circumstances under which you may have to break confidentiality....
Safeguarding Children - Growth and Nutrition
Charlotte Harrison
0.50 Hours
This session covers assessing normal and abnormal growth, puberty and essential nutrition. This session was reviewed by Louise Lam and Hilda Mulrooney and updated in February 2017.
Safeguarding Children - Understanding and Tackling Obesity
Mr WCEA Administrator
0.50 Hours
This session covers child eating behaviours and child obesity. This session was reviewed by Louise Lam and Hilda Mulrooney and updated in February 2017.
Safeguarding Children - Behavioural Management in Special Educational Needs
Vanessa Impey
0.50 Hours
This session covers the factors underlying challenging behaviours in children with special educational needs, how to support families and manage these challenging behaviours.
Paediatric - Supporting Autism Spectrum Disorder
Daphne Keen
This session allows for the development of further understanding of the management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It also focuses on some of the related problems and difficulties experienced by children and young people with a diagnosis of ASD.
Paediatric - Parental Risk Factors
Thomas Bourke
0.50 Hours
This session will consider the role of clinical staff in identifying factors in parents or carers that increase the risk of child maltreatment. Unborn babies & antenatal risk factors, newborn babies with previously identified antenatal factors, any child they are seeing. These sessions have been updated in 2015 by Dr Fiona Straw....
Principles of Pain Management
Joanna Elverson
This session covers the essential principles of pain management that together provide a framework for a comprehensive pain management strategy. This session was reviewed by Jo Elverson and last updated in September 2022.
Assessment and Management of Anxiety in Palliative Care
Annabel Price
This session gives a framework for recognising and managing anxiety in patients with advanced disease.
Difficulties of Treating Interstitial Lung Disease
Melissa Heightman
This session looks at interstitial lung disease (ILD), with an emphasis on those types that can present acutely. It identifies treatments with some evidence of benefit.
Breathlessness Type 1 and Type 2 Respiratory Failure
Phil Raines
This session discusses the causes of Type 1 and Type 2 respiratory failure, and why people suffer with these types of respiratory problems.
Presenting Features of Pulmonary Embolism
Amy Daniel
Pulmonary embolism is difficult to detect because patients present with a wide array of symptoms and signs. This session will highlight the breadth of clinical presentations and which signs and symptoms are common in particular age groups.
Challenging Communication With Colleagues
Pauline Dand
0.25 Hours
This session examines the reasons why challenging communication with colleagues takes place, especially when dealing with patients approaching the end of their lives, and the most effective approaches to handling these situations. This session was reviewed by Pauline Dand and Christina Faull and last updated in June 2015.
Assessment of Carers’ Needs
Sim Lan Koon
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the areas that should be considered in a holistic assessment of carers' needs and highlights the risk factors that can impact on a carer's experience of death and bereavement. This session was reviewed by Sim Koon and Christina Faull and last updated in January 2016.
Antenatal Care
Amanda Hutcherson
0.50 Hours
Appropriate, effective and timely care reduces the need for intervention in labour and perinatal morbidity and mortality for both mother and baby.
Communication Skills
Jonathan Silverman
0.50 Hours
This session deals with the interrelationship between consultation models and communication skills. It introduces the Calgary-Cambridge guides as an example of both structure and skills and examines the problem of delineating all the skills. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in June 2014.
Compartment Anatomy of the Arm
John Rendle
0.50 Hours
This session covers radiologically relevant anatomy of the upper arm with special emphasis on cross-sectional imaging and identification of fascial compartments.
Child with a Painful Elbow after Trauma
Barry Oliver
0.75 Hours
This session covers normal paediatric elbow anatomy, common patterns of injury, other paediatric elbow disorders and the role of radiography and other imaging modalities in the assessment of these.