Overview
Subject matter experts continue to review our courses on a periodic cycle and, whilst implementing their feedback, the team ensure the latest quality and consistency guidance is applied. Find out more about phasing out inbuilt voiceover.
We've decided to bring a new design to the downloadable Course Resources PDF that we provide with our courses. The new design is balanced with visual elements, allowing for a better alignment between text and graphics.
The new design follows a more subtle colour palette and ensures accessibility with the appropriate font format and page layout. Additionally, we are providing a short description along each hyperlink. The new design focuses on accessibility and blends both text and graphic elements better.
The new design helps you:
Recognise the hyperlink's purpose.
Explore the hyperlinks based on your interests with reduced click fatigue.
Associate the description of each hyperlink with your knowledge gaps.
Avoid cognitive overload and only retain information that is relevant to you.
What’s new?
Safeguarding & Protection of Adults
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. Whether you are a professional or have a friend or family member dependent on somebody for their care and support needs, being able to spot the signs of abuse and knowing how to respond will help protect them and can even save lives.
In this story driven course you’ll step into a fictional multi-disciplinary care agency. As you shadow colleagues, you’ll tackle safeguarding concerns and decide the best actions to support individuals in need.
See our safeguarding and protection of adults pdf.
This course helps you:
Recognise harm, abuse, and neglect and their impact.
Understand key statutory and non-statutory guidance and legislation.
Clarify responsibilities and professional boundaries relevant to your role.
Ensure effective advocacy, including knowing how and when to refer.
Apply good practice to help prevent abuse, harm and neglect.
Act appropriately when you suspect or witness potential abuse.
Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency setting.
Document your concerns in line with the legislation and organisational policies.
📌 Note: We’ve had this mapped by a qualified assessor against the CSTF, see pages 16, 17 and 18.
Released in February
MAR Charts
Sharan Giller, MRPharmS (The Medications Management Group), has reviewed the course content and assessment to ensure compliance. The voiceover has been removed from the course for accessibility reasons and all other inaccessible components replaced with accessible alternatives. Any outdated references to Lloyds Pharmacy have been removed.
MAR chart images in the course have been replaced with a downloadable example in the Resources section, external links to have also been moved to the resources page. There is updated guidance on the administration of medicines. The Resources page has been updated with short descriptions for each hyperlink. The assessment questions have been updated to reflect the course content.
The course updates will help in the following ways:
Confirms the course remains up to date.
Have a better learning experience on different devices with accessible components.
Learn on-the-go with the downloadable resources including sample MAR chart.
Released in March
Equality & Diversity
In collaboration with our Subject Matter Experts, we have updated the course content on the topic of Pressure ulcers risk assessing. We have decided to bring a slight update to the course title for better alignment with the content. Focusing on a practical approach, the new title is Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessing.
We've updated knowledge and terminology on the composition of skin, such as the skin layers and what damage to these layers can cause. We have removed and replaced content within the Pressure Ulcer categories section to align with the latest information on Mucosal Pressure Ulcers and Vulnerable Skin/Deep Tissue Injuries.
Additional updates have been made on the formally known unstageable pressure ulcers according to the National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) recommendations. We've added guidance on using the relevant risk assessment tools such as PURPOSE-T provided by NICE. Other informational updates have been made on the outcomes of incontinence and reduced mobility, and the Waterlow risk assessment.
For accessibility purposes, we've decided to extract essential content from the multiple-choice questions and include it into the course Transcript. We made further accessibility improvements by removing the VO and replacing inaccessible components. Additional hyperlinks were added to the downloadable Resources to support further learning.
This course update helps you:
Identify the pressure grading system for accurate risk assessment.
Recall knowledge on the composition of skin.
Categorise pressure ulcers and skin issues according to the latest information.
Recognise the importance of recording the assessment in relevant risk assessment tools.
Evaluate risk levels by using the Waterlow scoring system.
Access all content from interactive components with the course Transcript.
Navigate the course easily with accessible components.
Learn-on-the go with downloadable Resources.
How to get this update
The new Safeguarding & Protection of Adults eLearning will be replaced in situ, archiving the previous content within the same course. After our upload, any learners who are allocated the course, or have their progress reset, will see the newly evolved content.
All other updates have been automatically applied before the end of the month.