The Scenarios
The Scenarios
Patient
Safety Short Courses (March 2012) [PDF]
- The NES Training and Development Support Unit
(TDSU) is committed to supporting the Scottish patient Safety
Programme (SPSP) by highlighting what a safe patient journey looks
like, and by raising awareness of the tools needed to achieve and
embed quality improvement and patient safety in systems and
processes at all levels. As part of its commitment to this, the
TDSU in partnership has developed a programme of Patient Safety
Short Courses.
Stroke Competency
Toolkit Framework (SCoT) (March 2012) [PDF]
- The Stroke Competency Toolkit (SCoT)
provides a framework for the training of all NHS staff in Scotland,
and meets the requirement for all staff in specialist stroke units
to have achieved, as a minimum, the NES Stroke Core Competencies
within the first three months of being appointed. Patients, whether
in stroke units or not, will receive the highest level of care by
staff who are well informed and can demonstrate continuing
professional development in stroke care, rehabilitation and the
prevention of further
strokes.
Stroke
Training and Awareness
Resources (STARs) (March 2012)
[PDF]
- Chest, Heart and Stroke
Scotland (CHSS) have been actively involved in traditional face to
face stroke education and training initiatives, in partnership with
NHSScotland and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) on a regional and
national level for many years. STARs (Stroke
Training and Awareness Resources) was
developed to support a blended learning approach and offers equity
of stroke training to all staff who may be caring for stroke
patients throughout Scotland. STARS aligns with the NES Knowledge
Management Strategy and Action Plan (NES 2010-2012) by offering
case study-based scenarios that support clinical decision making
and reflection.
Enabling "Age as an Asset" in
the South East Scotland NHS Workforce (March 2012) [PDF]
The NHS workforce is ageing, and developing an understanding
of the impact of this on the overall workforce and on patient
safety is important. Over the next five to ten years the expected
retirement of approximately a third of the NHS workforce in
Scotland could have implications for patient safety. There are also
the uncertainties over changes to pension ages.
In 2008 the South East NHS Education Forum, with
additional funding from the Scottish Government, prioritised
research into the impact of the ageing workforce, following
discussions with workforce planners in the region (NHS Lothian, NHS
Borders and NHS Fife).
Clinical
Assessment Skills for Pharmacists (November 2010) [PDF]
- NES provides two days of training in Clinical Skills for
Pharmacists (Consultation Skills training and core Clinical
Assessment Skills). In addition, they provide training in Advanced
Clinical Assessment Skills for those pharmacists who wish to
further develop their skills in relation to cardiovascular,
respiratory, musculoskeletal and endocrine systems. This leaflet
examines the impact of these courses on safer patient
care.
Prevention and
Management of Pressure Ulcers: An Online Educational Workbook
(March 2011) [PDF]
- In November 2009 NES launched a training resource, "The
Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers," to support
healthcare staff in a caring role. The Pressure Ulcer Educational
Workbook forms part of the Integrated Programme for the National
Co-ordinated Approach to Tissue Viability which contains a wide
range of resources and other tools relevant to tissue
viability.
Prosthetics and
Orthotics Practice Development Network and making use of the NES
Knowledge Services (March 2011) [PDF]
- The Practice Development Network for Prosthetics and
Orthotics accesses the Shared Space facilities provided by the NHS
Knowledge Network (www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk). The
Shared Space is a collaborative workspace that helps communities of
healthcare staff, and partners in care, including patients, carers
and public, to share knowledge and work together.
Improving
Significant Event Analysis using feedback from trained peer
groups (March 2011) [PDF]
- The SEA process involves healthcare teams meeting to
discuss and structurally analyse incidents where patients are
unintentionally harmed - or could have been - as a result of the
care they experienced. Teams are also encouraged to highlight
events involving excellent clinical practice so others can learn
from them. In the past decade, NES has published a series of
research articles that have made a major contribution to the
evidence-base underpinning the development, application and
evaluation of SEA as a team-based learning and improvement
technique in the NHS.
Paediatric Retrieval
Training using the Mobile Clinical Skills Unit (March 2011)
[PDF]
- The Scottish Paediatric Intensive Care Retrieval Service is
a mobile care service providing care to critically ill or injured
children wherever they are in Scotland. Two Scottish Paediatric
Intensive Care Units (PICU), based at the Royal Hospitals for Sick
Children in Edinburgh and Glasgow, support the Paediatric Retrieval
Service. Specialist doctors and nurses from the two PICUs are taken
to hospitals anywhere in Scotland so that seriously ill or injured
children can receive the needed care.
