Virtual Learning Healthcare Overview
Our engaging courses have been developed alongside subject matter experts and are aligned with relevant legislation and guidance.
Course Overview
Duration: 45 minutes
The Anaphylaxis Awareness course is aimed at registered professionals and is designed to help learners understand more about what anaphylaxis is, what the symptoms of allergies and anaphylaxis are, and what can be done to help a person with anaphylaxis manage their condition. This course covers the common symptoms to look out for amongst the people you work with, care and cater for.
Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes
The courses included in this Community Care Level 2 Bundle are: Medication Management in the Community; Food Safety; Nutrition and Hydration; and Infection Control.
Duration: 45 minutes
This practical course aims to reflect the values and beliefs of professional healthcare workers. It also endeavours to help learners make changes in their own behaviour to enable them to deal effectively and professionally with those who rely on healthcare services.
Duration: 30 minutes
This short course, Consequences of Sleeping on Duty, is designed to give healthcare workers vital information on how to stay awake and alert on shift.
Duration: 45 minutes
This Counter Fraud (Healthcare) online course examines the different types of fraud active today, as well as the responsibilities of the individual when suspecting fraud. It looks at the role of NHS Protect in countering fraud in the healthcare sector and explores how organisations can safeguard themselves from the financially and psychologically damaging impact of fraudulent behaviour.
Duration: 50 minutes
This course, is designed for any staff working with dementia sufferers in a health or social care setting. Learners will gain an understanding of what dementia is, how it can be managed and gather a greater awareness of the sensitive issues faced by these individuals and their families.
Duration: 30 minutes
Top notch documentation or ‘record keeping’ is crucial to the provision of safe and effective healthcare – it is not an optional extra. This course on Documentation in Healthcare addresses the legislation and guidelines underpinning documentation. It takes the learner through the importance of accurate documentation and explores the consequences of poor quality record keeping.
Duration: 1 hour
This Enteral Feeding course has been developed to address the types of medical conditions that could lead to a person requiring a feeding tube. It provides practical knowledge on gastrointestinal tract anatomy, types of feeding tube available in relation to individual feeding regimes, plus information on administering medication, care and the complications associated with enteral feeding.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
It is impossible to remove every risk in more predictable environments let alone healthcare settings, so it remains the duty of the employers and responsibility of the employees to ensure they are well informed. This Health and Safety for Healthcare Workers course is designed especially for health and social care providers. The course imparts practical advice on risk assessment, management and regulation in line with the latest UK legislation.
Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes
Courses included in this Healthcare Professionals Level 2 Bundle are: Infection Control; Health & Safety for Healthcare Workers; Conflict Resolution in a Healthcare Setting; and Food Safety. This suite of courses is CPD accredited and each course will contribute CPD points to your professional portfolio.
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Courses included in this Healthcare Workers Level 1 Bundle include: Equality & Diversity in the Workplace; Fire Safety; Slips, Trips and Falls; and Documentation in Healthcare. This great value bundle provides much of your basic training requirements in one handy package.
Duration: 50 minutes
This course, Infection Control Level 2, is aimed at staff who come into contact with people who have the potential to spread infection, or where infection control is actively needed. The course contains information to enable learners to assess risks in relation to the spread of infection. It provides them with essential knowledge of the chain of infection and the principles of controlling different infection types.
Duration: 1 hour
This Medical Observations course, is designed to be completed prior to classroom training and covers the practical elements of monitoring, measuring and recording different types of observations. It addresses the need for determining a baseline of what is considered ‘normal’ for different patients given their individual conditions and requirements. This course carries a CPD accreditation and will contribute 1.5 CPD points to your professional portfolio.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
This course, Medication Management in a Community Setting, addresses the fundamentals of medication storage, preparation, administration, disposal and accurate record keeping. Furthermore, it examines the roles and responsibilities of the healthcare worker, highlighting the importance of determining patient capacity and consent, as well as the vital requirement for basic maths skills in the calculation of dosages.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
This course, Medication Management in a Community Setting (Scotland), addresses the fundamentals of medication receipt, storage, transportation, disposal, transcription, safe administration and calculation. Scottish legislation and the role of the healthcare support worker are examined to ensure best practice healthcare in the community in Scotland.
Duration: 2 hours
Designed for registered nurses and midwives working in an acute environment, this course covers the practical and legislative essentials involved in the safe handling of medicines in the busy, and often pressurised, hospital environment.
Duration: 30 minutes
This Mental Capacity Act course, addresses the intricacies of assessing mental capacity and the legalities surrounding this area of healthcare. The course explores: the five main principles of mental capacity; the importance of consent; Duty of Care; and the legal mediums by which a person’s power to decide for themselves may be diminished, should it be decided they are incapable of their own personal care.
Duration: 45 minutes
This Nutrition and Hydration online course has been designed with healthcare workers and food handlers in mind. It covers the principles of good nutrition, the path to malnutrition, safe food handling and explores the challenges presented in those who have medical conditions or difficulties eating and drinking.
Duration: 30 minutes
This course educates learners about the most common slip, trip and fall hazards whilst working in a community setting and provides practical instruction on how to carry out a risk assessment. It explores how to prevent hazards from posing a threat to clients and care workers through the implementation of control measures such as good housekeeping, changes to design, thorough maintenance, suitable flooring, footwear and proper cleaning.
Duration: 30 minutes
This course has been developed for healthcare professionals. Carrying a CPD accreditation and 2 CPD points, learners will be guided through the anatomy and physiology of the urinary system.
The course further investigates the indications for catheterisation and addresses the importance of using the correct catheter and drainage system. Healthcare professionals will receive practical guidance on good catheter care, learn how to identify possible complications and understand how to implement sound infection control.
Duration: 1 hour
This course identifies the allergens most commonly responsible for allergic reactions and provides vital instruction on what to do should someone suffer an allergic response. It provides practical advice on how to make sure that your establishment complies with new food safety regulations and suggests how to ensure customers or staff are able to make informed choices when selecting what food to safely eat.