New Resource: COVID-19 Multi-Professional Educational Skills Bundles from CSMEN

New Resource: COVID-19 Multi-Professional Educational Skills Bundles from CSMEN

CSMEN has developed a number of multi-professional skills bundles for use in any setting with patients with suspected COVID-19 and have been designed to support any healthcare practitioners working in the NHS or Social Care in Scotland

Skills Bundles

Unit A: COVID-19 Helping you in your role - Self-Protection

Topics include: health protection behaviours; hand hygiene; donning and doffing PPE; social distancing in the workplace; implementing self-isolation measures; and psycho-social support and well-being.

Unit B: COVID-19 Helping you in your role - Assessment and Management

Topics include: demonstrating infection control measures and communication skills; gathering clinical information; undertaking clinical examination; skills linked to investigations and findings; documenting findings using relevant tools and patient management skills using best evidence.

Unit C: COVID-19 Helping you in your role - Protecting your Workplace

Topics include: how to safely decontaminate and manage clinical waste; safe manual handling; referral pathway and routes of presentation of COVID-19; and providing guidance for patients and families.

To support the skills bundles, CSMEN has also developed two units on how to enhance practitioner skills using simulation.

Skills for Practitioners

Unit D: COVID-19 Helping you in your role - Procedural Skills using Simulation

This unit is about learning the relevant procedural skills required for the assessment, diagnosis and management of a patient with suspected COVID-19 in the community, primary or secondary care settings using simulation.

Unit E: COVID-19 Helping you in your role - Rehearsing Skills using Simulation

This unit describes the important stages involved in simulation and provides scenarios for practising in different settings with COVID-19.