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ALERT™ AWARE™ & BEACH™ Network Day

Get the latest updates on ALERT™ course materials, including new teaching strategies and scenario-based workshops. Enhance your clinical practice and improve patient care. Join us at Holiday Inn, Birmingham on Tuesday, 20th October 2015.

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ALERT™ AWARE™ & BEACH™ Network Day

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  1. ALERT™ AWARE™ & BEACH™ Network Day Tuesday 20th October 2015 Holiday Inn, Birmingham

  2. ALERT v4 updates to teaching materials Nicky Sayer ALERT™ Course Director

  3. Post Course Evaluation PHT results: Aug-14 to Sep-15 Response rate: 23% 12% CandidateManager The training had an impact on clinical practice: Candidate Manager 25 50 75 100 Never Sometimes Usually Always

  4. Ideas under development • Pre & Post Course MCQ option • Less lectures and develop the sessions to be more workshop and scenario based • Increased options for introducing local policies, documents, case studies etc. • Sepsis is included • NEWS used throughout

  5. Ideas under development • Airway as a skill station • Two scenarios per candidate • More scenarios to pick from so able to choose a scenario relevant to the candidates role/speciality • Human factors included

  6. Draft programme for 16 candidates

  7. Draft programme for 16 candidates

  8. Airway and Breathing Skill Station Learning Outcomes: • Able to open an airway with head tilt chin lift and jaw thrust • Able to size and insert an Oropharyngeal & Nasopharyngeal airway • Able to use of non-rebreathing oxygen mask and a Bag-Valve-Mask device

  9. Airway and Breathing Skill Station Resources • 4 x airway trainer, OPA & NPA, O2 cylinder, O2 mask, BVM • 4 x educators and stations/rooms

  10. Breathing Workshop • Understand when and how to deliver oxygen safely • Understand the methods of monitoring the effectiveness of oxygenation • Understand causes and management of the blue & breathless patient

  11. Circulation • Includes AKI and Oliguira • Case study and flash files being updated

  12. Sepsis • Separate workshop for 30mins • Emphasis on the Sepsis 6 and escalation of care • Enables local sepsis pathways and antimicrobial prescribing policies to be introduced and used

  13. Communication & Human Factors Learning Objectives • Understand the importance of clinical human factors • Identify how this affects our performance under pressure • Understand why effective communication is an important part of patient care • Understand how to use a communication tool

  14. Scenarios • Two scenarios per candidate • More scenarios to pick from so able to choose a scenario relevant to the candidates role/speciality • Will have clear outcomes that have to be achieved linked to a competency document

  15. Any Questions?

  16. Summary • ALERT v4 development is progressing well • 4-5 Pilot sites for the new teaching materials are required • Any comments and suggestions email nicola.sayer@porthosp.nhs.uk

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