Online learning Resources

FREE Trauma Care Webinars

Trauma Care Webinars are a great way to learn bite sized information in the comfort of your own home. Either take part in the interactive live event with key questions and answers or catch up with the recordings when you subscribe.

www.traumacare.org.uk/webinars

See below for an example of one of their great free webinars-

Please be aware that these videos may contain images of injuries and wounds and medical procedures on real people. 

What is ESR and NLMS?

Electronic Staff Record (ESR) is a workforce solution for the NHS, ESR supports the delivery of national workforce policy and strategy.

It provides NHS organisations with a range of tools that facilitate effective workforce management and planning; thereby enabling improved quality, improved efficiency and improved patient safety. The comprehensive suite of workforce management functionality within ESR is exclusive to managers and employees within the NHS in England and Wales.

National Learning Management System (NLMS) is a functionality within ESR which allows staff to access and complete mandatory training offerings as well as additional CPPD. This removes the need for staff to locate courses from several sources.

How do I access ESR and NLMS?

All SWAST employees now have access to ESR self-service which allows you to view pay slips, personal information and learning dashboards.

If you haven’t used My ESR for e-learning yet there is loads, & we mean loads of free Clinical & NON-Clinical e-learning on here. The interface is a bit clunky , but there is a ton of good stuff here, and best of all, if you do it on here it is all recorded ad stored on your NHS record.

Download NLMS quickstart guide PDF 

Download NLMS FAQs and troubleshooting guide PDF

Go to the SWAST intRAnet info page for ESR

ESR new learning available – aimed at Midwives & Paramedics

Class: 000 Midwifery Identification, Stabilisation and Transfer of the Sick Newborn

Just log onto ‘My ESR’

Search the ESR catalogue for ‘mist’ and it comes up as: Class: 000 Midwifery Identification, Stabilisation and Transfer of the Sick Newborn

If you haven’t used My ESR for e-learning yet there is loads, & we mean loads of free Clinical & NON-Clinical e-learning on here. The interface is a bit clunky , but there is a ton of good stuff here, and best of all, if you do it on here it is all recorded ad stored on your NHS record.

Download NLMS quickstart guide PDF 

Download NLMS FAQs and troubleshooting guide PDF

Go to the SWAST intRAnet info page for ESR

UNISON is the UK’s largest union, serving more than 1.3 million members. They represent full-time and part-time staff who provide public services, although they may be employed in both the public and private sectors. They are also there to provide a large variety of courses and some of these courses will be absolutely free to those who become members. Below are examples of the excellent courses on offer through UNISON:

Diabetes Awareness Certification

Mental Health First Aid Certification

Safe Handling of Medicines Foundation Certification

Cerebral Palsy Awareness Certification

The e-learning site from UNISON is where you can access a whole range of online activities, which is especially handy for UNISON activists.

Click here to find out more about the e-learning on offer through UNISON

Red Whale – Lifelong learning for Primary Care

Red Whale are a private company providing Primary care focused education in a large variety of formats to Primary Care providers nationally.

This is normally a paid subscription based service which allows access to their resources. During COVID 19 pandemic- they have opened up some of their resources to be available for free.

There is a temporary 3 month access to the GP Update handbook available, and free access to the COVID 19 update ‘pearls’.

GP Updates – https://www.gp-update.co.uk/updates

You will need to register still, but there is a Click here registration instructions 

We Love our GPs – free weekly resources for Primary care

This site is another resource prodcued by the education provider Red Whale.

Again, it is aimed at Primary Care, but there are some useful free resources that may pique your interest.

Advanced Practitioners Online (APO)

Advanced Practitioners Online (APO) is an e-learning and professional networking resource for Advanced Practitioners working in General Practice settings.

Advanced Practitioners are health graduates with considerable post registration experience and educated to Masters level. They diagnose disease through comprehensive history taking, physical exams, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests. They are independent prescribers and can make referrals to specialists.  They can serve as a patient’s primary health care provider, and see patients of all ages depending on their specialty.

This website is aimed at Primary care, but has lots of great resources

Please note it is a Scottish website – so there may be local variations

Unividas – from Medscape

Unividas is a  sponsored international website with a ton of free resources

• Education section
• Clinical reference resources
• International news

Access the BNF Online

The improved online BNF & BNF for children is now on the new MedicinesComplete site

You can also access:

• Stockleys interaction checker
• Martindale’s ADR checker
• Clinical calculator
• NEW – Critical illness

The changes have been driven by your needs, and central to the new experience is the addition of drug groupings by therapeutic area to the Table of Contents, helping you to navigate relevant drug monographs.

NHS users will be required to re-register for continued access to the BNF online.

Spotting the Sick Child

Children need a different approach from adults and many health professionals are anxious about assessing children.

Spotting the Sick Child is an interactive tool commissioned by the Department of Health and Health Education England to support health professionals in the assessment of the acutely sick child.

In order to access Spotting the Sick Child you will need to register an account.

There is no fee for registration

College of Paramedics ‘Temporary Registered Student Paramedic’ support site

This page has been created with NQP’s (TRP’s) in mind, but this site will be useful to all ambulance clinicians.

Please click the link here or pic to be taken to the site – it has been created as a resource by the CoP & is updated & added to as new content is available. (It is free & open access to non-members).

• Resilience and Wellbeing
• HCPC and Legal Protection
• Clinical Decision Making
• Medicines Management
• ECG Refresher
• Maternity
• Mental Health Act COVID19 Changes
• Airwave Radio Refresher
• Ambulance Equipment
• Useful Apps
• Online CPD Activities

New! Online Development day learning on ESR

Originally this content was planned for face to face delivery but due to the coronavirus pandemic it has been adapted to be delivered online.

At this time we do not know how long the impacts of the virus and social distancing will effect your face to face to education. However, the Education and Professional Development team are working hard to ensure your education and development needs are met during the pandemic

All operational all ambulance staff should now be able to access the following lessons (more will be available later)

1. Resuscitation and support of transition of babies at birth
2. Anaphylaxis

Please click the link here or pic to be taken to the ESR log in page. Logging into ESR for the 1st time ? Please scroll down to see how to guides for logging onto to ESR

Having trouble finding the DD lessons? Click here

Activate your academic writing skills

Do you want to know all about writing in academic contexts? Get it right with your academic writing on the BBC Go The Distance course.

Try out their Academic Writing activities – we’ll be your guide to the English language skills you need for further education. Topics include: academic vocabulary; essay structure; writing in online discussion forums; the language of academic argument and more.

You can access the page HERE

Want to do even more?

Are You Talking Aloud? Or Is Talking Allowed? Watch What You Write, to Make Sure it’s Right

Words that look the same and/or sound the same can easily be confused. For example, if you invite people over and tell them to bring their palates/palettes, they won’t know whether they should expect to be drinking wine or painting!

Here is a short blog that may be helpful to improve you english language skills, whether it be for academic writing, if english is your second language, (or both- hats off to you if so!), or just if like me you spent a lot of time staring out the window at school!

Click here for the Homophones art website by Bruce Warden

Click here to go to the blog post 

The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) e-Learning programme

This is a new e-Learning programme which is free to all NHS Staff interested in learning the severeness of an acute illness in the NHS.

The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) e-Learning programme ensures staff across the NHS operate using the same language to provide patients with the right care at the right time. Over 280,000 healthcare professionals have completed the online competency training thanks to NEWS.

Initially launched in 2012, the programme was updated back in April 2020 to include new supplementary and Covid-19 guidance from the Royal College of Physicians.

You can learn more about the e-Learning programme and sign up to it by clicking here!

Free level 2 e-learning courses (external provider ESF funded)

Mallard Outsourcing is predominantly a recruitment consultancy, but as the development of existing teams going hand-in-hand with team expansion, they also offer FUNDED CPD opportunities like this. The primary training provider that they use (Learning Curve Group) is offering learners the chance to enrol, study and be assessed online for a variety of Level 2 courses. These are funded by the ESF and free to the learner.

Examples of the level 2 courses available include:

• Mental Health First Aid & Advocacy in the Workplace
• Equality & Diversity
• Digital Skills for Work

Please note that this is an external company offering free (government funded) L2 courses online. This is not run by SWASFT, but we are signposting you to these opportunities.

Click here to read more about the Level 2 courses which are free to the learner!

Alzheimer’s Society guide for emergency services

Alzheimer’s Society have a new guide for emergency services. Click the image above to download it.

This one features some of our own on the front page from Somerset , so its worth a look just for that! In all seriousness it’s a great resources with some good links.

Or you can go to their website here 

All SWASFT staff are eligible to join their local Health Library. *The Plymouth & Southmead ones are online and open to all SWASFT staff.

SWASFT staff now have access via the library website to an additional:

• 500+ core clinical journals
• 1100+ textbooks
• Practice guidelines, systematic reviews and multimedia resources
• Pin boards and awareness updates for the latest news

New e- books added all the time-

Pilberry, R. and Lethbridge, K. (2019) Ambulance care essentials. 2nd ed. Bridgwater: Class Professional.
Pilbery, R. and Lethbridge, K. (2019) Ambulance care practice. 2nd ed.  Bridgwater: Class Professional.
Eaton, G. (2019) Law and ethics for paramedics: an essential guide. Bridgwater: Class Professional.
Hearns, S. (2019) Peak performance under pressure: lessons from a helicopter rescue doctor. Bridgwater: Class Professional.
Gubbins, K. and Hardwick, S. (2019) Practice education in paramedic science: theories and application. Bridgwater: Class Professional.
Peate, I. and Stephens, M. (2020) Wound care at a glance. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

You will need an NHS Athens password to access these resources, just register at https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ or visit http://openathens.nice.org.uk/ForgotPassword/Reset if you have forgotten your username or password.

or you can Download a leaflet to get started

You can contact the Discovery Library at:

Discovery Library-Level 5 Terrace Lewis Building- Derriford Hospital- Plymouth-PL6 8DH

Telephone: 01752 (4)39111

Email: library.mailbox@nhs.net

Multi agency training for Glos. Staff via Proud to learn Gloucestershire

To access E-learning Modules and Training Courses hosted on LearnPro Community please contact the Multi-Agency Workforce Development Team on proudtolearn@gloucestershire.gov.uk or 01452 324306 for a registration guide. 

What training is available?

• Autism
• Dementia
• Dysphagia – Difficulties with eating and drinking (LD)
• Eating Well: Supporting Adults with Learning Disabilities
• Epilepsy and Midazolam Awareness
• Health Inequalities and Good Health Outcomes
• Mental capacity Act
• One Day Dementia Training
• Registered Managers Development Programme
• Responding to People in Mental Health Crisis
• Safeguarding Adults L3
• Self harm Awareness training for Front line staff

How do I register?

All users MUST register with an INDIVIDUAL email address. If you do not have an individual email address you can set one up very simply with a number of hosts (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail).

1. Request a User guide from Proudtolearn@gloucestershire.gov.uk

See our upcoming training courses by viewing our Multi-Agency Training calendar for 2019 here.

Royal College of Emergency Medicine resources

This is a fantastic learning resource with tons of evidence based resources from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine-

Please also check out the newly produced (2019) Decompression illness module

Overview

RCEMLearning is the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) elearning platform. We aim to be a leading Emergency Medicine elearning site which delivers high quality resources to its members and the broader international elearning community.

RCEMLearning is simultaneously committed to preserving benefits for RCEM members and promoting elearning predicated on open access principles. The majority of content is open access (content in the Exams and CPD section is for RCEM members only), and the site includes a section devoted to the production and dissemination of FOAMed materials. RCEMLearning is registered under a Creative Commons license to encourage (re)use of resources for educational purposes.

Site structure

The site is comprised of the following elearning resources:

• An etextbook designed to support shopfloor decision making/teaching and individual learning.
• Hundreds of interactive sessions ranging from short clinical cases (which are open access) to complex learning sessions which include diverse assessment methods. Successful completion of these sessions generate certificates for learners’ portfolios.
• A section devoted to critical appraisal.
• FOAMed content, comprised of podcasts and blogs, predicated on current trends in evidence-based medicine.

ECG online resources -Complied & approved by the Clinical Directorate (last checked May 2019)

This is page is an internal link to another page where we have compiled a collection of Online ECG Distance Learning resources from various providers. These deliver videos, tutorials, posts, discussions and quizzes available to all staff. Topics include electrophysiology, STEMI, lead systems, avis deviation, normal and abnormal ECG patterns and arrhythmias.

Click Here to see the full list 

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

NICE provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.

Here you will find guidance, advice, quality standards and information services for health, public health and social care. Also contains resources to help maximise use of evidence and guidance.

There is a great section on NICE pathways –Everything NICE says on a topic in an interactive flowchart

You can also find the NICE Clinical Guidelines here 

Risking Happiness film – A light hearted but touching film joining a patient on their journey to hospital & back

Jointly commissioning by Gloucestershire CCG and Gloucestershire County Council, ‘Risking Happiness’ was created by the Reckless Kettle Theatre Company and The Roses Theatre in 2015.
The characters and story of the play are fictitious, but the process of writing it drew from real people, situations and experiences.
The purpose of the play has been to stimulate conversations and promote healthy discussions about our attitude to risk in our daily lives – initially as professionals, but ultimately as individuals.

Access the film HERE or by clicking the image above.

The aim of the PROMPT Maternity Foundation is to reduce preventable harm for mothers and their babies.

The PROMPT Maternity Foundation provides a multi-professional training programme which was initially introduced to North Bristol NHS Trust. It has been shown to improve outcomes for real women and their babies. The introduction of PROMPT training at Southmead Hospital has resulted in:

Internationally, interest has grown and PROMPT training has been adopted in a number of countries outside of the UK.  Many of these countries have conducted their own research trials and have demonstrated similar results to those achieved at Southmead Hospital, including:

• USA
• Australia
• Zimbabwe
• Philippines

PROMPT Maternity Foundation has produced a range of practical and informative videos hosted on You Tube for you to view.

A Pre-Hospital PROMPT video made in partnership with SWASfT is now in post production and will be released towards the end of 2020! (See if you can spot any familiar faces…)

Emergency Medicine Cheltenham and Gloucester (EM CAGE) Website

A range of resources are freely accessible to all staff on the Emergency Medicine Cheltenham and Gloucester (EM CAGE) Website.

Visit the Distance learning #FOAMed Page here

Life in the Fast lane – FOAMed FOAM 

Free Open Access Meducation – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Life in the Fast lane is dedicated to collating the resources that healthcare professionals and students can access to take part in the FOAM movement.
The term FOAM was coined in June 2012 in a pub in Dublin, over a pint of Guinness during ICEM 2012 [watch the Dublin video].
FOAM is a collection of resources, a community and an ethos. The FOAM community spontaneously emerged from the collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web with one objective — to make the world a better place. FOAM is independent of platform or media — it includes blogs, podcasts, tweets, online videos, text documents, photographs, Facebook groups, and a whole lot more.
FOAM should not be seen as a teaching philosophy or strategy, but rather as a globally accessible crowd-sourced educational adjunct providing inline (contextual) and offline (asynchronous) content to augment traditional educational principles. FOAM is the concept, #FOAMed is the hashtag

Digital Learning Solutions

The Digital Learning Solutions platform provides customisable IT training for all staff on Microsoft Office products, from basic through to advanced.
It has been developed to provide an officially recognised route of learning and certification for the whole workforce and provides certificates for each course complete.

All training is free and provided by the NHS for NHS staff

Click here or the image to go to the site & register – (it may take a couple of days for your registration to be approved in really busy times)

OSCEstop is a free, one-stop online resource for comprehensive notes on medical school finals OSCE exams

OSCEstop aims to help healthcare professionals improve their clinical examination and practical skills. Notes on all of the essential skills and detail on all of the stations likely to come up in OSCE examinations are provided to help you acquire and maintain the broad knowledge needed to succeed.

A contemporary learning programme designed for the ‘modern paramedic’ was launched on the 9th May 2017 and can be accessed for free. This is Phase 1 of 2, more modules are under development. The project has been undertaken in partnership with Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare team (e-LfH) who develop clinically credible online learning for health professionals.

Bite-sized Sessions

College of Paramedics members and those with an NHS email address can now access almost 50 ‘bite-sized’ sessions separated into five module topics:

1. Clinical Decision Making
2. Mental Health
3. End of Life Care
4. Pain Management
5. Law and Ethics

Each module has been developed under the leadership of module editors in specialist firelds. Each session can be done in less than 20 minutes, and is applied to paramedic practice with a focus on problem-based learning and case studies.

Accessible Modules

E-learning for Health

Every session has been developed so it can be used on any device; Smart Phone, Tablet, Laptop, or PC.  So you can access CPD whenever and wherever you choose. Currently, the content is accessible through the e-Learning for Healthcare platform at e-lfh.org.uk.

Quick & Easy Registration

You can register online here http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/paramedics in five minutes with an NHS or MOD email address, or through Open Athens.

 For more information please visit the London College of Paramedics website.

Zero Suicide Alliance

The Zero Suicide Alliance is a collaborative of National Health Service trusts, businesses and individuals who are all committed to suicide prevention in the UK and beyond. The alliance is ultimately concerned with improving support for people contemplating suicide by raising awareness of and promoting FREE suicide prevention training which is accessible to all. The aims of this training are to: enable people to identify when someone is presenting with suicidal thoughts/behavior, to be able to speak out in a supportive manner, and to empower them to signpost the individual to the correct services or support.

Access their WEBSITE HERE including FREE Suicide prevention e-learning and free resources

BMJ Clinical support tool

A new Clinical decision support tool from BMJ including evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion is now available to all SWASFT staff and students on placement from April 2019 for three years (purchased by Health Education England).

Access the WEBSITE HERE