Course Tag: Older People Care

Dementia Skilled

Dementia is a devastating illness. This course helps us to understand it and learn how best we can support those with dementia.

Managing Death in a Health and Social Care Setting

Understand how to best manage death in a health and social care setting in a sensitive and appropriate manner. Finding out a service user has passed away when you make a visit can be very upsetting for all. Even when it had been expected, it can be very overwhelming. This course will look at understanding what to do on the initial discovery, the types of death that you may encounter and how to manage the discovery accordingly.

Safeguarding and the Protection of Adults Level 3

Welcome to the Safeguarding adults level 3 course. Throughout this course, you will explore effective safeguarding practices, including identifying signs of abuse, engaging in person-centred approaches, understanding legal and ethical responsibilities, and collaborating within a multidisciplinary framework. 

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

You may not think you work with or come into contact with hazardous substances, and you may even be thinking what actually are hazardous substances. If that’s the case, take this training to find out more about COSHH and what this means.

Stroke Awareness

While strokes are the fourth largest cause of death in the UK, it’s estimated that 70% of them could be prevented and better managed. And in this course, we’ll explain how. 

Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease, often known as ‘Parkinson’s’, is a condition that affects the brain, causing symptoms such as shaking and stiffness of the limbs.

Enteral Feeding (PEG)

Eating, drinking, and providing medication is a vital part of care, and understanding enteral feeding will help ensure that you can provide the exceptional care to those individuals who cannot process food in the regular way.

Suicide, Alcohol and Drugs

Substance abuse and suicide are serious issues that can have devastating consequences. This course provides essential knowledge and understanding to help you support individuals who may be struggling. 

Personal Care

Deliver compassionate and respectful personal care with confidence. Providing personal care is a rewarding but demanding role. This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to deliver exceptional care, ensuring individuals receive the support they need to maintain their independence and dignity.

Verification of Expected Death (For Nurses)

Verification of expected death is a sensitive and important responsibility for healthcare professionals. Empower yourself with the knowledge and skills to navigate end-of-life care with confidence. This 30 minute course is aimed specifically at registered nurses who may be working with individuals in end of life care or be expected to verify a death. 

Catheter Care

Catheters for some individuals can be a sensitive subject and one that requires discretion and a level of privacy, however in care you are likely to commonly encounter these. Within this course we’ll look at several elements of using a catheter as well as how to deal with issues as they arise.

Oral Health in Care

Sore tooth or yellow teeth? Need a filling and unsure of the options available? Or maybe you want to know what warrants good oral health and what counts as bad? These are all the types of questions we hope to answer in this training course around oral health.

Duty of Candour

Within care, we all have a level of duty or responsibility put on us which protects the individuals we work with. However there may be responsibilities or guidelines you’re unaware of, specifically around the Duty of Candour. Take this training course to learn everything you may need to know or do in order to correctly carry out your role.

Mental Health Awareness

Understand mental health, challenge stigma, and build resilience with our Mental Health Awareness course.

The Mental Capacity Act

Everyone deserves the right to make their own choices. The Mental Capacity Act is a vital piece of legislation that ensures individuals are supported and protected when they’re unable to make decisions for themselves. 

Bowel Care and Management

Unlock the secrets to effective bowel management and improve quality of life with our comprehensive Bowel Care & Management course.

Moving and Handling People

Working in a health and social care setting often means you are spending a significant amount of your time moving and handling various individuals. Whether you’re using hoists or simply assisting an individual to move between their chair and their bed, it’s essential that you understand how to carry out manoeuvres safely and correctly.

Sepsis Awareness

Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. Your understanding of this medical emergency is vital as it would require rapid diagnosis and treatment for an individual in your care.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a serious lifelong health condition that occurs when the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood is too high. If not managed properly as part of care provision, the result can be fatal. Understand the importance of monitoring and effectively managing an individual with diabetes in your care.

Health, Safety & Welfare in Care

Workplace injuries can be catastrophic for those in care. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that there are approximately 600,000 non-fatal workplace accidents in the UK each year, so having an awareness of how to work safely can not only minimise the risk of harm to you but also to those you work with and provide care for.

Fire Safety in Care

Care environments present unique challenges which we may not be exposed to in other settings and professions, for example individuals being bed-bound or less mobile. Therefore, the consequences of getting fire safety wrong has a higher risk of a tragic outcome.

End of Life Care

The term ‘end of life’ usually refers to the last year of life, although for some people this will be significantly shorter. If care professionals, family members and loved ones are all clear about an individual’s preferences for treatment in their final stages of life, you’re all free to devote your energy to care and compassion.

Professional Boundaries in Care

The ability to build meaningful and trustworthy relationships with the individuals you support and care for is a vital part of your role as a care professional. However, professional boundaries are those rules and limits that prevent the lines between care professional and individuals in your care from becoming blurred.

Infection Control Level 2

Stay safe, stay healthy: Empowering you with infection prevention and control knowledge in the UK.

Person-Centred Care Planning and Record Keeping

Care plans are the way in which we plan and agree on how an individual’s health and social needs can be met, and how good health and wellbeing can be supported. But without excellent record keeping to go with it, care professionals can struggle to provide the person-centred care that individuals deserve.

Medication Administration Refresher for Nurses

As humans, we often take medications to treat or prevent illness. Medications can be dangerous though, even when they’re meant to improve our health. Therefore, as a nurse professional, it’s important to recognise these risks and learn more as to the right way to administer medications.

Pressure Area Care

Pressure sores may sound like superficial damage and discolouration of the skin, but it can be much worse. Deep ulcers that extend down to the tendon, muscle and bone can develop without a solid understanding of how to care for pressure areas.

Dysphagia

Dysphagia is the medical term for swallowing difficulties. It can occur at any age, and its effects can vary from having problems swallowing certain foods or liquids all the way to not being able to swallow at all.

Safeguarding and the Protection of Adults Level 2

As a healthcare professional, you have a duty of care to the individuals you support to ensure that they are as safe and cared for as can be. Knowing the potential signs of abuse, harm and neglect and how to deal with them will ensure each individual’s right to live in safety is protected.

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights

Regardless of their background, culture or community all individuals should have an equal opportunity to access high quality care and support to meet their needs.Knowing about equality, diversity and our basic human rights can help us achieve this.