Course maintenance
Our subject matter experts have reviewed the following courses, and have determined they remain compliant and require no amends:
Health and safety.
First aid.
Mental Capacity (Northern Ireland) Act.
Basic life support.
Food safety level 1.
Positive behaviour support
Following our Subject Matter Expert's review of the course, we updated the ABC charts in Lesson 5: The different physical/mental health conditions that can lead to behaviours that may challenge.
The rest of the course and the assessment remain compliant and relevant.
The course update will help you map and record information related to a behavioural incident so that you can understand why it is happening and how you can support the individual.
Still to come this month
Fire awareness
Our Subject Matter Expert reviewed the course and suggested some minor updates.
Consequentially, we updated the lessons: Using an extinguisher, Your duties, and Ways in which fires can start.
We clarified the daily duties to assess the work environment. To enhance skill retention, we simplified the instructions and updated the animation on operating a fire blanket.
The course update will help you:
Perform fire safety duties and assess the work environment to ensure fire safety.
Remember how to use a blanket to extinguish a fire.
Epilepsy awareness: the basics
We are delighted to announce the upcoming release of our new course, Epilepsy awareness: the basics, in collaboration with Epilepsy Action.
The course is designed for every worker or individual who would like to understand the basics of epilepsy: whom it affects, how seizures might impact someone’s daily life and how to support them.
It features video-based lived-in experiences shared directly by individuals with epilepsy.
The new course will help you:
Recognise what happens during an epileptic seizure.
Increase awareness of how epilepsy can affect a person’s daily life.
Identify ways to support an individual with epilepsy and help keep them safe.
Recognise a medical emergency and respond to it appropriately.
Epilepsy awareness: core skills
We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of our new course, Epilepsy awareness: core skills at the end of this month.
This course has been written in partnership with Epilepsy Action, who have provided up-to-date facts, guidance and real-life examples.
The training aims to support care staff who may occasionally work with an individual with epilepsy. If your service can accept an individual with epilepsy, your staff should already have access to this module.
The content is designed to be accessible, multimedia-driven, Subject Matter Expert and learner-centred.
The new course will help you:
Recognise roles and responsibilities when caring for someone with epilepsy.
Explain who epilepsy affects.
Outline how to support someone during and after different types of seizures.
List some guidelines and considerations for administering epilepsy medication.
Use seizure records and epilepsy care plans to better support a person with epilepsy.
Coming soon
Managing epilepsy
Following our two new Epilepsy awareness titles, we are excited to be working again with Epilepsy Action, on a third, more in depth course, which will be available from the end of October.
The course will be suitable for care and support staff across all levels.
If you work with individuals with epilepsy, you have a responsibility to help them stay safe. This includes completing risk assessments, following their epilepsy care plan, helping them with medication administration and recording seizures correctly. And primarily, you will need to understand how their epilepsy affects several aspects of their lives.
The new course will help you:
Increase awareness of the basic principles of epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Report and record information about a person’s epilepsy accurately.
List some key considerations for administering epilepsy medicine.
Identify the main health and safety risks for a person with epilepsy, including epilepsy-related death.
Explain how risk management can be used to provide safe, person-centred care.
How to get this update
We have automatically applied these updates.
The following courses will be live by the end of this month (September 2024), and you will be able to see and register for it directly in your LMS:
Epilepsy awareness: the basics.
Epilepsy awareness: core skills.