COURSES AVAILABLE

Core Care & Assessment Skills

Scope; Care staff new to the role or wanting a refresher. 

Includes;

Understanding patients/clients who may be at risk of deterioration and how to help prevent it.

How to care for a person with constipation, a catheter, a stoma, a PEG tube.

How to recognise concerns and when to ask for help.

How to prevent pressure ulcers.

Core Care & Assessment Skills

Scope; Care staff new to the role or wanting a refresher. 

Includes;

Understanding patients/clients who may be at risk of deterioration and how to help prevent it.

How to care for a person with constipation, a catheter, a stoma, a PEG tube.

How to recognise concerns and when to ask for help.

How to prevent pressure ulcers.

Introduction to Care Planning 

Scope; all staff responsible for writing and reviewing care plans 

Includes;

Definitions- what is a care plan and why do we need one?

What should we include?

Benefits of good care planning

Risks of ineffective care planning

Reviewing care plans

Legalities of documentation

Care plan writing practice 

An Introduction to End of Life Care 

Scope; Nurses, health & social care staff who are new to caring for palliative patients/clients or wanting a refresher

Includes;

Having a common language- communicating and collaborating with other professionals

Recognising advancing disease

Introduction to advance care planning & best interests decision making

Care in the final days- symptom management

Last offices

Verification of Expected Death for Nurses

Scope; Registered nurses supported by their organisation to perform this task. Refers to local policy and procedure. This is part 1 of a 2-part course. Part 2 consists of the student being observed by a suitably qualified person verifying death according to law and local policy for the number of occasions required.

Includes; 

The law  

Current guidelines re referral to the coroner 

The practice of verification 

Documentation 

Communication 

Venepuncture

Scope; For health workers who are supported by their employers to perform phlebotomy. This is part 1 of a 2-part process covering the theory and practice on dummies. Part 2 must be organised by the student’s employer and undertaken with the support of a qualified practitioner to complete observation of a number of practice draws on patients as per local policy.

Includes;

The theory of taking venous blood samples

Anatomy & physiology of the veins

Vein selection

Infection Control

Risk assessment & management

Responding to incidents

Consent

Managing samples

Types of equipment

Practice on dummy arms

This training can be tailored to your needs depending on your care setting & level of staff.

Know how to manage the safe supply, administration, handling & storage of medicines.

Know the legal aspects of medicines

Know how to support patients/clients with their medicines

Know what to do if things go wrong

Topics covered;

What are your responsibilities

What are;

Cautions, contra-indications, side effects & interactions

Person centred elements of meds management i.e. cultural aspects, involving patients in decision making

Types of support;

Administration, assistance, prompting

The 6 rights of administration 

What you can and can’t give, depending on your role

Oxygen

MAR charts & documentation 

PRN medication

Routes of delivery

Short term prescriptions

Variable dose medication

Types of prescriptions i.e. Prescription only, over the counter

Ordering, delivery & collection- the rules

Storage

Controlled drugs

Medicine counting

Disposal of drugs

Hospital discharge

Reasons for refusal etc

Covert medication

Topical preparations

Eye ear & nasal drops

Administration do’s & don’ts

Medication errors & reporting 

Is it working?

How do I know the course is right for me and my staff?

Contact us at Learn to Care when you have identified the courses that interest you. We will have a chat about your needs and tailor the session to suit your type of service i.e. home care, nursing home etc.

What if I only have a small number of staff who need training?

You can book the entire session for your organisation or we can invite your staff to a local group session to join with other local care providers. This way you can share the cost but the number of places available will be limited. You can pay a fee for the whole session or pay per person, whichever suits you.

Where are sessions held?

Most sessions are held in the Warrington/Cheshire area, although we will travel if you wish and this may incur an additional cost depending on the distance. We can attend a venue of your choice if you are hosting the entire session, or arrange a venue if it is a shared session. There is no additional charge for sessions taking place at a shared venue.

If you have any further questions please drop us an email and we will be very happy to help, either by email or have a chat over the phone.

Other courses available are;

Introduction to spinal injuries – full day

Head injuries management

NEWS Early Warning Scoring

Introduction to clinical observations 

React to Red pressure ulcer prevention

Introduction to Sepsis

Advance Care Planning 

Understanding ‘Do Not Resuscitate’

Difficult Conversations

Defensible Record Keeping

6 Steps to Success in End of Life Care change management programme – consists of 8 sessions over a period to be agreed i.e. weekly, fortnightly, monthly and includes tasks to be completed in between sessions.

All courses are half day unless otherwise stated.