Aim:
To provide participants of knowledge surrounding catheter and stoma care.
Objectives:
– Recognise need for catheter and stoma care
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain risk of infection and problems commonly encountered
– Discuss management of stoma and catheter care.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are caring for patients / clients with COPD and Asthma.
Objectives:
– Recognise the indications needed to give suction
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain problems and adverse effects commonly encountered
– Discuss policies and guidelines.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are caring or managing, patients / clients.
Objectives:
– Recognise the indications of dementia
– Identify types of dementia
– Explain problems and effects commonly encountered
– Discuss medication and treatment.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and awareness to participants who are initiating with patients/clients that are disabled.
Objectives:
– Recognise issues that occur in daily activities
– Identify types of disability
– Explain problems commonly encountered
– Complete a ADL form.

Aim:
To provide participants with knowledge and skills required to care for an individual at end of life.
Objectives:
– Recognise the dying patient
– Identify specific care needs relating to end of life care
– Discuss ethical issues surrounding end of life care.

Aim:
Provide participants with better awareness of epilepsy and the care needs of an individual with epilepsy.
Objectives:
– To identify causes of epilepsy
– Recognise different seizures and management of a seizure
– Identify ‘triggers’ of seizures
– Underline care needs of the individual following a seizure
– Discuss common medication used in epilepsy and seizures.

Aim
Provide participants with the knowledge and skill to assist an individual in an emergency situation.
Objectives:
– Identify the role of the first aider
– Explain the primary and secondary survey
– Discuss injuries and treatment
– Identify airway, breathing and circulatory problems Perform CPR.

Aim:
To provide participants with knowledge of good food safety practice.
Objectives:
– Explain the need for food hygiene
– Discuss relevant legislation
– Identify food poisoning and contamination risks
– Apply food hygiene to scenarios.

Aim:
To provide participants with knowledge of controlling Infection.
Objectives:
– Recognise infection
– Identify risk factors
– Explain micro-organism growth
– Underline relevant legislation
– Discuss infection prevention and control procedures.

Aim:
Deliver Awareness and how to manage Diabetes.
Objectives:
– Identify types of Diabetes
– Recognise symptoms of hypo / hyperglycaemia
– Chronic disease association
– Discuss common problems / complications of Diabetes
– Physiology of Diabetes
– First Aid Management
– Medication used
– Write a simple daily management plan.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and practical experience of Manual Handling.
Objectives:
– Identify principles of safer moving and handling
– Explain manual handling risk assessments
– Discuss relevant legislation
– Identify potential risks
– Demonstrate equipment and practice safer manual handling techniques.

Aim:
To provide knowledge to participants whom are undertaking the management, and administration of medication.
Objectives:
– Identify medicine types and groups
– List different administration routes
– Recognise contraindications
– Discuss human rights in relation to medicines
– Perform a practical and theoretical assessment.

Aim:
To provide knowledge to participants who are caring for patients/clients having Oxygen Therapy.
Objectives:
– Recognise different types of illness that needs Oxygen therapy
– Identify medical equipment
– Explain problems and adverse effects commonly encountered
– Discuss contraindications.

Aim:
To provide participants with knowledge of paediatric first aid.
Objectives:
– Identify paediatric emergency situations
– Discuss injuries and treatment
– Apply first aid knowledge to scenarios
– Perform paediatric CPR.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are caring for patients / clients with Parkinson’s.
Objectives:
– Recognise the signs and symptoms and drugs used
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain problems and adverse effects commonly encountered
– Discuss emotional and ethical issues.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are caring for patients / clients with a peg feed.
Objectives:
– Recognise the indications needed for a peg (Anatomy and Physiology)
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain problems and adverse effects commonly encountered
– Discuss policies and guidelines.

Aim:
To provide participants with knowledge and skills needed to execute issues surrounding the prevention of vulnerable adults.
Objectives:
– Recognise signs and indications of abuse
– Discuss relevant legislation
– Identifying the vulnerable adult
– Explain POVA procedures and the POVA referral process
– Complete a VA1 form.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are giving stoma care.
Objectives:
– Recognise the need for stoma care
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain problems commonly encountered
– Discuss management of stoma care.

Aim:
To provide knowledge and skill to participants who are giving suction to patients / clients.
Objectives:
– Recognise the indications needed to give suction
– Identify types of medical equipment used
– Explain problems and adverse effects commonly encountered
– Discuss policies and guidelines.

Aim:
To have a greater understanding of transient ischemic attacks and the difficulties that service users might experience.
Objectives:
– To provide a background on the causes of TIA and CVA
– Identify the difference between chronic and acute illness
– To identify specific areas of difficulty, including mobility, eating and drinking, speech and cognition
– Appreciate some of the practical barriers that people suffering with TIA / CVA experience.