The Healthcare e-Academy are constantly developing new modules in line with member requirements.
Pleas see below our newly released courses, if you would like a demo to any of these modules or would like to utilise your 20 free licenses, please contact Georgina on 01943 885086.
The following courses have now been released:
Safeguarding Adults
The Safeguarding e-Academy has introduced a range of courses suitable for Adult Social Care Training. A special introductory membership of £5,000 is being offered, whereby organisations can pay £5,000 (plus VAT) for 1000 licenses
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Health and Safety for Healthcare
All too often, employees and employers alike find it difficult to understand why health and safety should be seen as an important issue. Unfortunately, it is often only when an accident occurs that minda are concentrated and action is taken. This module draws on Health and Safety Executive statistics to underline the very real risks that exist in what appear to be the safest of working environment. It also underlines the need to take health and safety seriously by making each individual aware of thier responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and other recent regulations and legislations.
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 lays down very clear responsibilities on all employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace. Compliance with these requirements can be difficult, if staff are not committed to working with their employer, as well as meeting their own responsibilities under the Act. This moudle will provide learners with essential support in order that everyone works to comply to health and safety law
Lesson Plan:
Welcome and Learning Objectives
Complying with Health and Safety Objectives
Risk Assessment
Recognising and Reporting Hazards
Target Audience:
This course is aimed at anyone who works within the healthcare sector who wishes to highlight potential helath and safety issues before the result in injury or ill health, and to ensure all workers comply with health and safety law.
Safe and Effective User of Bedrails for Adult Patients
Bedrails are used throughout the healthcare provisions for a range of patients, whose needs each need to be individually assessed before bedrails are used as part of their care. Hospitals and other care faciliites care for some patients whose condition or treatment for their condition can place them at a greater risk of falling out of bed. Bedrails are therefore used to reduce the risk of patients injuring themselves by falling out of bed.
Having completed this e-learning course, learners will understand what an aseptic technique is, what circumstances the technique should be used in and the reasons why. They should also be able to apply the principles learnt in this course into practice.
As an example for the scale of the problem, over the period of one year, 2005-2006, around 44,000 reports of patients apparently falling out of bed whilst in health service care wree made to the National Reporting and Learning system, a statistic equivilent to around 1 in every 200 patients admitted to hospitals and mental health units.
This module has been developed in partnership with University Hospitals of North Staffordshire, and learners completing this e-learning module will understand the requirements for the safe use of bedrails and be able to apply to practice principles learnt in order to care safely and effectively for patients in their care.
Welcome and Learning Objectives
Why bedrails are Necessary
The Use of Bedrails
Benefits, Risk, Assessment and Summary
Target Audience:
This module is targeted primarily at healthcare workers in NHS organisations, though the information is applicaable to anyone working in the healthcare sector with responsibilites for patients.
