Fundamental Course Package for Healthcare Professionals
This pack covers fundamental requirements for healthcare professionals. All titles have been developed in collaboration with leading subject matter experts. This pack covers core training for health professionals over a variety of roles. These titles may qualify for CPD points and are an important tool for continuing professional development.
Assist Clients with Medication
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to provide care and support workers with an understanding of how to assist clients in aged care, home and community settings with their medication needs.
Target Audience
The course has been designed to provide training for care and support workers in residential aged care, home and community setting.
Learning Objectives
This course looks at assistance with medication provided by care or support workers in response to assessed client need and in accordance with:
- the relevant health, support or care plan, and
- jurisdictional requirements.
The course covers the distribution and administration of prescribed and over the counter medication as well as how to support clients with self-medication.Those who require assistance may be residents or clients, but for consistency the term ‘clients’ is used in this course
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- ensure you have the authority to proceed to assist a client with their medication
- prepare the client for assistance after identifying the level and type of physical assistance or supervision required
- assist and support the administration of a wide range of different types of medications
- understand some of the ways medications are classified
- identify lines of authority, accountability and actions to be taken to handle contingencies
- complete the documentation associated with the administration of medication, andimplement hygiene and duty of care procedures when addressing the needs of the client.
Duration 130 Minutes
Basic Life Support
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to provide learners with an understanding of how to provide basic life support (BLS) in a manner that’s consistent with the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR) guidelines.
Target Audience
This course is designed for nurses and other health care workers employed in acute, community and aged care settings.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- The steps involved in conducting effective basic life support
- The purpose of conducting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, otherwise referred to as CPR
- How to assess a situation, identify dangers and call for help
- How to assess a patient's airway and manage airway obstructions
- How to perform rescue breathing and chest compressions
- Procedures for and risks associated with the use of an automated external defibrillator, or AED
Duration 85 Minutes
Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to give workers in the healthcare environment an understanding of the importance of hand hygiene in stopping and controlling the spread of infection.
Target Audience
The course is appropriate for all staff working in health care settings.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- The role hand hygiene plays in preventing and controlling infection
- How to perform hand hygiene according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines
- When to use alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) or soap and water
- When hand hygiene is necessary
Duration 20 Minutes
Health Services Induction
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course provides an understanding of some of the key requirements of workers in the health services industry.
Target Audience
This course is designed for workers in the health services industry
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- patient safety infection control
- workplace safety
- fire safety and emergency management
- Infection prevention and control
- professional conduct in the workplace and what to do if you are being bullied or harassed
- managing occupational violence and aggression, and
- privacy and confidentiality.
Inclusions
This course includes:
- Animations
- Assessments
- Certificate of completion
- Interactive activities
- Video
- Voice Over
- WCAG 2.0 accessible
Infection Prevention and Control - Standard Precautions
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to give the learner an understanding of how to apply standard precautions in your workplace, as well as the role they play in reducing the risk of infection.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for all clinical staff.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- Standard precautions used in healthcare environments to prevent and control infection
- How to maintain effective hand hygiene
- The need for respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette
- The importance of maintaining a clean environment
- How to use personal protective equipment (PPE) safely
- The importance of reprocessing reusable instruments and equipment
- Asepsis and aseptic technique
Duration 70 Minutes
Infection Prevention and Control - The Basics
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to give the learner an understanding of what infection is, how infection occurs in healthcare settings, and some of the steps they can take to start controlling the risk of infection.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for all clinical staff.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- Basic microbiologyWhat an infection is
- The body’s defence mechanisms against infection
- What healthcare associated infections are
- The chain of infectionAn introduction to infection prevention and control measures used to minimise infection transmission risk
Duration 35 Minutes
Infection Prevention and Control - Transmission Based Precautions
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to give the learner an understanding of how to apply standard precautions in your workplace, as well as the role they play in reducing the risk of infection.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for all clinical staff.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- Transmission-based precautions used in healthcare environments to prevent and control infection
- What contact precautions are and how to use them against contact with infectious agents
- What droplet precautions are and how to use them to prevent infection transmission
- What airborne precautions are and how to use them against infectious agents
- Transmission-based precautions are used alongside standard precautions.
- You should have a good understanding of basic microbiology and standard precautions used in infection prevention and control, before completing this course.
Duration 35 Minutes
Medication Calculations Competency
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This resource has been developed to provide a competency assessment for nurses and midwives whose scope of practice includes the administration of medications and intravenous (IV) therapy. The competency assessment provides a baseline by which nurses and midwives can assess their skills with performing medication and IV fluid volume and rate calculations.
Target Audience
This course is aimed at anyone responsible for administering medication in any Australian clinical or care environments.
Learning Objectives
This competency course will assess your ability to calculate:
- Calculate oral tablet and capsule doses
- Calculate oral mixture and solution doses
- Calculate intramuscular and subcutaneous injection doses
- Perform metric conversions
- Calculate IV therapy fluid volumes and rates
In order to successfully complete the Medication Calculation Competency course, you need to achieve a score of 100%. You have unlimited attempts at each section of the competency assessment.
Duration15 Minutes
Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to provide an understanding of how to insert a peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) into an adult patient and to prevent and control healthcare associated infections (HAIs) associated with this procedure.
Target Audience
You should complete this course if you're a clinician whose scope of practice includes the insertion and maintenance of PIVCs. It should be completed prior to any clinical assessment of peripheral intravenous cannulation skills and then used regularly in ongoing refresher training.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- How the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards are applicable to invasive device management,
- The risk of infection posed by PIVC insertion and the measures that need be taken to prevent and minimise this,
- What equipment is required to successfully insert a PIVC,
- How to prepare a patient for PIVC insertion,
- The recommended processes for inserting, maintaining and removing a PIVC,
- The complications that can occur.
Duration 90 Minutes
Safe Medication Management
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to provide suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation.
Target Audience
The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice includes medication administration.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will:
- understand your responsibility to safely administer medication and reduce the risk of a medication or adverse drug event occurring
- be able to identify key risk points in the medication administration process, as well as strategies to minimise these risks, and
- accurately calculate drug and medication dosages, including tablets, mixture and solutions, and intravenous flow and drip rates.
Duration 60 Minutes
Workplace Violence and Aggression in Healthcare
Valued at A$38.50
Course Overview
This course has been developed to provide you with an understanding of workplace violence and aggression in healthcare and the associated risks, what to do during an incident, and steps that can prevent and minimise violence and aggression.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for professionals who work in health care.
Learning Objectives
This course will provide an understanding of:
- The nature of workplace violence and aggression in healthcare settings, including prevalence, scope and cost.
- The associated legal and policy frameworks concerning violence and aggression in healthcare settings.
- Steps you can take to prepare for and prevent incidents of violence or aggression, including the environment-situational-patient (ESP) risk assessment framework.
- The assault cycle.
- Steps you can take to manage a person progressing through each phase of the assault cycle.
- Things you can do to help manage violent individuals, and the key responsibilities of employees and employers in the event of an incident.
Duration 95 Minutes
