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  • Education
    • Academy Study Days >
      • Current Study Days
      • Past Study Days
    • Online Learning
    • Course Literature
    • PROMPT
  • O&G Trainees
    • Deanery Teaching
    • Teaching library
    • Mat Med Evenings
    • ePortfolio
    • Wellbeing
    • Webinars
    • Ultrasound training
    • Courses
  • Unicef BFI
  • Guidelines
    • Wessex Antenatal Care Pathways
    • Wessex Intrapartum Care Pathways
    • Wessex Maternal Medicine Network
    • Wessex Fetal Medicine Network
  • Quality Improvement
    • Quality Improvement Projects
    • Quality Improvement Events
    • Coronavirus

Education

Online Courses

For use by maternity staff employed within the Wessex region and not for wider circulation
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Psychological Safety and Safer Maternity Care with Prof Suzette Woodward
Click each section to access the recording of this study recorded on 10th May 2021
Introduction
Polarity mapping
Human performance Safety 1 and Safety 2 approaches
Restorative culture
Case study and closing discussion

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Critical Care day 1- back to basics
Here you will find the resources to accompany the critical care day 1- virtual training day.

Presentations
​Why Caring for Sick Women Matters
ABCDE
​Back to basics- Observations
Fluid Balance
Commonly Used Drugs used in Maternity High Care
Differential Diagnosis
Care of Women with DKA and hypoglycaemia

Workshops

Online evaluations need to be submitted following the day. Click here
Pre course quiz and competency booklet


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Critical Care day 2- the next steps
Here you will find the resources to accompany the critical care day 2- virtual training day.

Competency document. Click here
Online evaluations need to be submitted following the day. Click here

Presentations
ABG
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Caring for women with higher levels of PPH
Cardiac cycle
Invasive monitoring
NG tubes
Sepsis
Why caring for sick women matters

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Postnatal Contraception 
For midwives working within SHIP. This training will enable midwives to prescribe the progesterone only pill and depo injection for postnatal women.
​This training is designed to be completed in 30 minutes

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course information
Postnatal Contraception

Please undertake the online learning module
Read the national PGD for progesterone only pill and PGD for depo
Complete the contraception quiz

​Below are some useful resources and quick guides

how_to_prescribe_the_progesterone_only_pill_-_lc.docx
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how_to_prescribe_depo_-_lc_-bp.docx
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quick_guide_to_condoms.docx
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contraception-after-having-baby-your-guide.pdf
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Contraception quiz
Please ensure you have completed the elfh module prior to attempting the quiz.
You can access the quiz by clicking the link or by completing the embedded quiz below.
You have 2 attempts to score 100%. Should you need a third attempt please try again next month.

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LGBTQ+ in Maternity 
Recorded teaching from Nov 2021. With presenters from the Queer Parenting Group, Legacy of Leo, and patient experience feedback
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Maternal Medicine and Diabetes for Midwives 
Recorded teaching from May 2022
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Burnout
Join us for a webinar series where Hazel Anderson-Turner, a Business Psychologist and Resilience Coach will be joined in conversation by other coaches who specialise in different areas related to the prevention of burnout.
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PReCePT
This interactive e-learning resource has been designed for perinatal healthcare professionals to support education around the administration of magnesium sulphate for neuroprotection to mothers in preterm labour. Building on current NICE guidance, and the successful roll out of the national PReCePT programme, this module will guide clinicians through the clinical benefits of administering magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) to mothers who go into labour before 30 weeks gestation. It will provide information on the neuroprotective qualities of this cost-effective and readily available drug, the detail of how it is administered and the positive impact it can have on the lives of neonates and their families.. Click here.


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Personalised Care

These free courses are suitable for all health and care professionals, regardless of profession or seniority.
Browse the learning list to find something that you’d like to learn about. Choose from short 30 min modules designed to introduce you to a range of personalised care curriculum topics and some deeper dive courses containing several modules. 85% of healthcare professionals recommend these courses.
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Cultural Competence
The Cultural Competence elearning tool is made up of three 20-30 minute learning sessions. The purpose of the tool is to support clinicians in the NHS to gain knowledge and understanding of the issues around culture and health; and how this might influence health care outcomes.
Being Culturally Competent is not only about respecting and appreciating the cultural contexts of patients’ lives. Neither is it a one-size-fits-all approach – it’s about understanding the way we deliver health care and responding to the needs of our diverse population. Click here

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Atain
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This elearning programme will help healthcare professionals involved in the care of newborns, both in the hospital and community settings, to improve outcomes for babies, mothers and families through the safer delivery of care. It is one of the outputs from the Atain programme (an acronym for ‘avoiding term admissions into neonatal units’) to reduce avoidable causes of harm that can lead to infants born at term (i.e. ≥ 37+0 weeks gestation) being admitted to a neonatal unit.
​The elearning programme addresses the key learning needs identified through Atain, with a focus on four key clinical areas:
  • respiratory conditions
  • hypoglycaemia
  • jaundice
  • asphyxia (perinatal hypoxia–ischaemia).
As the Atain programme also identified the impact of mother baby separation, a specific session has been included to raise awareness of the importance of keeping mother and baby together
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Neonatal Jaundice

National reporting has highlighted an increase in the number of babies being readmitted with hyperbilirubinemia. Neonatal jaundice, caused by the build-up of bilirubin in the blood, is a common condition which is usually harmless, requires no treatment or responds to phototherapy. On rare occasions it can cause brain damage as a result of excess bilirubin leading to kernicterus.

Click here to access a webinar on jaundice and the use of biliruibinometers 1 & 2

You can also access the Atain onlline training module for further learning on neonatal jaundice.

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Smoking
Pregnancy and smoking cessation. Click here
Very brief advice module. Click here
E-Cigarettes- a guide for Health Professionals. Click here

Very brief advice on second hand smoke module. Click here

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Bereavement
This programme has been written to share the elements of good bereavement care. Click here
It has been developed by a collaboration of charities, professional organisations and people with first-hand experience to improve bereavement care and reduce variability in care after:
  • Miscarriage, which is pregnancy loss or the death of an unborn baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy
  • Ectopic pregnancy, when the pregnancy develops outside of the uterus
  • Molar pregnancy, when an abnormal fertilised egg implants in the uterus – the placental tissue develops even though the egg doesn’t
  • Termination of pregnancy after a prenatal diagnosis
  • Stillbirth, when a baby dies before or during birth at or after 24 weeks of pregnancy
  • Neonatal death, when a baby dies within 28 days of birth
  • Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), when a baby or toddler under 1 year dies suddenly and unexpectedly

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Perinatal Mental Health
Eating disorders in pregnancy. Click here 
Bipolar and pregnancy. Click here

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Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation in Labour
An interactive resource designed to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of midwives to undertake intelligent intermittent auscultation. Click here


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Saving Babies Lives 
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A Saving Babies’ Lives e-learning programme has been developed to support the delivery of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version Two (SBLCBv2) in maternity units across the NHS. 
The second version of the care bundle brings together five elements of care that are widely recognised as evidence-based and/or best practice, these are:
  • Reducing smoking in pregnancy
  • Risk assessment, prevention and surveillance of pregnancies at risk of fetal growth restriction (FGR)
  • Raising awareness of reduced fetal movement (RFM)
  • Effective fetal monitoring during labour
  • Reducing preterm birth
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Breastmilk Provision for Preterm and Sick Neonates 
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This elearning resource has been designed to improve education and training for all relevant staff in the support of breastmilk provision for preterm and sick infants. The programme will also enable health and care professionals to improve breastmilk provision rates at discharge from neonatal units. According to the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP 2020) report, at day 14, 82% of infants under 32 weeks gestation were receiving breastmilk. However, only 58.3% of eligible babies were receiving mother’s milk, exclusively or with another form of feeding, at the time of their discharge from neonatal careThe content is suitable for all professionals who support and work/contribute to improving breastmilk provision:
  • neonatal nurses, nursery nurses, nursing associates, neonatal health care support workers and paediatric staff
  • midwives and maternity healthcare support workers
  • medical trainees
  • medical staff
Click here


Contact

Holly Green
Princess Anne Hospital, 
Coxford Road,
Southampton SO16 5YA
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