Patient Group Directions

Course

Online

£ 22 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Class hours

    1h

This interactive e-learning course is designed to enable personnel from healthcare organisations to understand the importance of PGDs, the legal framework under which they may be used and how they affect the work of the individual healthcare worker. Suitable for: All staff in healthcare organisations that need to work with PGDs

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There are no special requirements for this course

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Course programme

Patient Group Directions Patient Group Directions (PGDs) are documents which make it legal for medicines to be given to groups of patients without individual prescriptions having to be written for each patient. (DoH)
How this course can help you:

Failure to comply with the law on PGDs could result in a criminal prosecution under the Medicines Act. Although the vast majority of clinical care is provided on an individual basis by healthcare professionals, PGDs are widely used.

This interactive e-learning course is designed to enable personnel from healthcare organisations to understand the importance of PGDs, the legal framework under which they may be used and how they affect the work of the individual healthcare worker.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course the trainee will be able to:
  • Describe the background to Patient Group Directions
  • Develop an understanding of the implications of Patient Group Directions
  • Learn the legal aspects of Patient Group Directions and how this impacts their practice
  • Discuss a competency framework for using Patient Group Directions safely

Benefits of the course to the trainee:

  • Includes a scored 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 Simplifies record keeping as to who has been trained and when and their score 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 V9 or later and connection to a printer

Patient Group Directions

£ 22 VAT inc.