Anaphylactic Shock Standard (Refresher)
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
1h
This interactive e-learning course is designed to enable personnel from healthcare organisations to understand, recognise and treat Anaphylactic Shock. It is intended to be used as refresher training, and is not suitable for new staff who should attend traditional classroom training. It is aimed at staff who are trained and qualified to provide intra-muscular adrenaline. Suitable for: Anaphylactic Shock (Standard) Refresher is aimed at doctors, nurses and other medical professionals qualified to give intra-muscular adrenaline. It is available for individuals, small groups (e.g. GP Practice nurses) or organisations.
About this course
This course is for refresher training only. New staff should attend a traditional classroom based course.
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Course programme
According to the UK Resuscitation Council (January 2008), the incidence of anaphylaxis is increasing and there is confusion about the diagnosis, treatment, investigation and follow-up of patients who have an anaphylactic reaction.
This interactive e-learning course is designed to enable personnel from healthcare organisations to understand, recognise and treat Anaphylactic Shock. It is intended to be used as refresher training, and is not suitable for new staff who should attend traditional classroom training. It is aimed at staff who are trained and qualified to provide intra-muscular adrenaline.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Define the term anaphylaxis
- Identify triggers that could cause an anaphylactic reaction
- Describe the signs & symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction
- Describe the management of a patient in an anaphylactic reaction
- State the dose of adrenaline to be administered to a child and an adult
Benefits of the course to the trainee:
- Includes an assessment and Certificate on completion
- Work from anywhere - no travelling
- Available 24 by 7 from an Internet connected PC*
- Easy and fun to use, even if you are not familiar with the use of computers
Benefits of the course to the organisation:
- Easier to train a higher proportion of clinical staff (and hence a direct benefit to patients
- Reduces risk to the organisation of having untrained staff exposed to a potential clinical emergency
- Simplifies record keeping as to who has been trained and when
- Frees up staff time for clinical duties
- Can be used in parallel to existing face to face training, and offered as an option to staff
- A good way to evaluate the benefits of adopting e-learning as one approach to CPD
- Simple to set up and operate
- Even staff that currently don't use computers love it!
- Tailored introduction from a senior officer of the organisation such as the Director of Nursing and a certificate with the organisation logo
* PC requires Macromedia Flash Reader and connection to a printer
Anaphylactic Shock Standard (Refresher)