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Health and Social Care courses
Care-sector awareness and compliance courses.
Autism Awareness
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people around them.
Handling Information in a Care Setting
When working in a care setting it is so important to build positive relationships with care users. Confidentiality and the correct handling of personal information are vital for trusting relationships and a breach in this may lead to a service user becoming unwilling to cooperate with their care providers.
Blood Transfusion
The course starts by explaining why ensuring and maintaining the quality and safety of blood products is so important. After that, it looks at the necessity for multi-disciplinary collaboration when it comes to the transfusion of blood and how this looks in practice.
Dignity and Privacy
There are two crucial attributes you must have when working with people in a caring, supportive environment. First, all service users must be treated with dignity and the second crucial attribute is privacy.
Duty of Care
A duty of care is the requirement that all health and social care professionals and organisations providing health and care services, must put the interests of service users first.
End of Life Care
End of life care should be several things, compassionate, cost effective, holistic and effective. There are usually a number of people involved in the care of people at the end of their life and it can be a difficult process to be part of.
Epilepsy Awareness
When introducing epilepsy, we must first recognise that there are around 40 different types of seizures. Statistics show that one in five people will have a seizure at some time in their life although only some of these will be caused by epilepsy.
Infection Control
Infection prevention and control measures aim to ensure the protection of those who might be vulnerable to acquiring an infection….
Introduction to Infection Prevention and Control
This micro course looks at key definitions of Infection prevention and control and the impact of infections. It explains why infection control is so important and how it impacts patients, staff and employees.
Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines
This Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines course will start by explaining the key terminology used when handling medicines.
Learning Disability Awareness
Learning disabilities, however they are acquired, are lifelong. They are neurological disabilities and as such affect how an individual understands and remembers information, how they learn and communicate.
Nutrition and Hydration
If you are part of a team responsible for people’s nutrition and hydration, it’s important that you understand the terms that are being used, the nutritional requirements of the service users and the possible consequences of getting it wrong.
Person-Centred Care
What do we mean by Person Centred Care, well the term originated in the 1940s and proposed taking a holistic view of service users in care settings.
Stroke Awareness
Summary Strokes are the fourth single leading cause of death in the UK, as well as a leading cause of disability. Being aware of the causes and symptoms will help you act fast in a situation where you suspect someone is having a stroke and provide them with the best chance of receiving the treatment they need and minimising the long term impact of the condition.
Understanding your Role in Care
Social care is the provision of social work, personal care, protection or social support services to children or adults in need or at risk or adults with needs arising from illness, disability, old age or poverty.
ADHD Awareness
ADHD is a chronic condition that creates a range of persistent symptoms such as difficulty sustaining attention, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviour.
Diabetes Awareness
Diabetes is a serious lifelong health condition that occurs when the amount of glucose or sugar, in the blood is too high.
Becoming a Teaching Assistant Part 1
Teaching Assistants play a vital role in modern education. From supporting pupils with literacy and numeracy, to helping children with additional learning needs thrive in the classroom, effective Teaching Assistants make a genuine difference to pupil progress, confidence and wellbeing.
Dementia Awareness
Dementia is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. Dementia is a chronic progressive problem of cognition - which is failure of the brain’s functions.
Health and Safety in a Care Setting
Care homes are owned and managed by a wide range of organisations, including local authorities, the NHS and organisations from the private and voluntary sectors.
Principles of Communication
When working in the adult social care sector, communicating is essential to develop your understanding of a service user's needs so you can provide them with the support they require.
Introduction to Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years Foundation Stage, commonly referred to as the EYFS is a framework that all Early Years providers, including childminders, must follow.
Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards
This course describes in detail the many facets and procedures of the Mental Capacity Act. This includes who the act affects, when it applies, how to assess capacity and the procedures that can be put in place in the home or workplace to ensure best practices are followed and people are treated fairly at all times.
Moving and Handling People
This Moving and Handling People eLearning course is aimed at people working in health and social care who have people in their care that have mobility issues.
The Care Certificate
The Care Certificate is a nationally agreed set of standards that detail the learning outcomes and requirements that health and social care support workers are expected to be trained in before they can work unsupervised.