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TRAINING AND EDUCATION

TRAINING AND EDUCATION. VERONICA SMITH. PROGRESS TO DATE. Aberdeen Study Day; Paediatric Education; Glasgow University Graduate Course; On line Training. PAEDIATRIC EDUCATION.

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TRAINING AND EDUCATION

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  1. TRAINING AND EDUCATION VERONICA SMITH

  2. PROGRESS TO DATE • Aberdeen Study Day; • Paediatric Education; • Glasgow University Graduate Course; • On line Training.

  3. PAEDIATRIC EDUCATION • Teaching in A&E departments, community children’s nursing teams and staff from children’s wards throughout Scotland. • Overview of the new referral guidelines for paediatric burns. • Content covers pre transfer treatment including assessment, fluid resuscitation, pain management and wound care.

  4. PAEDIATRIC EDUCATION (continued) • How to treat minor burns that do not need transfer. • Raise awareness of toxic shock syndrome in paediatric burns. • Coming year teach in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire hospitals.

  5. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE • Division of Nursing & Health Care Graduate Certificate: Burns & Plastic Surgery Care for Adults and Paediatrics. • Scoping exercise prior to instigating these courses; • It is a multiprofessional course; • Targeted at nurses, A.H.P.s and junior medical staff; • Aimed at adults and paediatric staff.

  6. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (continued) • The Graduate Certificate is equivalent to 60 degree level credits. • Each course can be taken as a stand alone course equivalent to 20 degree level credits • Each course is delivered over three days of face-to-face contact.

  7. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (continued) • Course 1: Principals of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burn injury Care (20 credits). • Course 2: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery: Adults & Paediatrics (20 credits). • Course 3: Management of Adult & Paediatric Burn Injury (20 credits).

  8. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (continued) • Will be offered at the University of Glasgow from Oct 2010. • Contact Details: Joan McDowell, Senior Lecturer, Division of Nursing & Health Care, J.R.McDowell@clinmed.gla.ac.uk 0141 330 4051.

  9. ON LINE TRAINING • Audit carried out on new medical graduates by S. Thomson. • Concluded large differences between medical schools. • Suggested online training beneficial

  10. ONLINE TRAINING (continued) • NES developed an online education toolkit; • Develop this for burns; • Available with Athens password; • Training packages for junior medical staff, AHP’s and nursing staff.

  11. COMING YEAR • Scar study day – St Johns Hospital. • Pressure Garment study day– Stirling. • Psychosocial – liaising with Changing Faces in the South. • Basic Burns Study day – Glasgow.

  12. FUTURE DIRECTIONS? • Should we be looking at prevention campaigns?

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