IDEAL Times

1IDEAL - August 2006

SouthamptonSouthamptonUniversity Hospitals NHS TrustUniversity Hospitals NHS Trust

August 2006Issue 3

of Education and LearningIntegrated DirectorateIDEAL

CoursesEDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR DEVELOPMENT COURSESThis programme of education has been developed for Consultants and Educational Supervisors and will be held in the Education Centre. For details of objectives, dates and enrolment please visit SUHTranet and look under Education/IDEAL/Doctors/Consultants or Education/TLM.

Half-day Training SessionsThe Trust has introduced rolling, mandatory half-day training sessions to support education, training and staff development. These half-days are an opportunity for our busy staff to take on mandatory development that they would otherwise have to do in other times.

Your department/divisional training leads will have more information on your activities on the half-days. For Managers wanting more information from IDEAL, please contact Anita.Esser@suht.swest.nhs.uk, Education Lead for The Wider Healthcare Teams or Ext 4914.

The first half-day was held on 11th July and training sessions on Data Protection, Risk and Health & Safety, Infection Control and Hand Hygiene were well attended. The half-days for the rest of 2006 are: 2 August (am), 6 September (pm), 5 October (am), 2 November (pm) and 8 December (am).

Life SupportA growing number of courses related to “life support“ activity are hosted around the country under the auspice of the Resuscitation Council and the Royal College of Surgeons.

Within IDEAL a whole range of courses may be accessed which include:• ATLS: Advanced Trauma Life Support

• ALS : Advanced Life Support

• APLS: Advanced Paediatric Life Support

• NLS: Neonatal Life Support

• GIC: Generic Instructor Course

• EPLS: European Paediatric Life Support

Diabetes updates for Nursing StaffThere are regular updates on diabetes throughout the year for trained nursing staff. The next dates are:

19th September 2006 and 21st November 2006

For more details, please contact Rita Trodden contact Rita.Trodden@suht.swest.nhs.uk or Ext 3761.

“ I won’t get stress because I’m strong”WRONG! Stress is an intensely personal condition which happens when you have more pressure than you can manage – and you may well not realise it. It happens to all sorts of people in all walks of life, irrespective of class, colour, education or income. Its effects on personal and work life can be far-reaching, long-lasting and very damaging.

If you are interested to hear more about ‘Managing Work & Life Stress’ please contact Caroline Nesbitt Ext 4072 or Caroline.Nesbitt@suht.swest.nhs.uk

Latest figures suggest 1 in 5 people are suffering from high levels of work-related stress – do you know any of them?

For further details of these courses please phone the Education Centre reception on Ext 4098.

Grand Round For learning over lunch don’t forget to come to the Grand Round! Different topics are presented every week for all grades of medical staff. Held every Wednesday 13:00-14:00 in one of the Lecture Theatres on Level B, South Academic Block, SGH. For more details or to be added to the Grand Round email distribution list please contact Yvette.Brunsdon@suht.swest.nhs.uk.

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Recent EventsOrthopaedic Masterclass Learning Media supported an Orthopaedic ‘Masterclass’ on the 31st May. This involved a live video and audio link with two-way communication from an operating theatre where Professor Barrett was carrying out a revision knee operation. This was relayed to approx 40 delegates in Lecture Theatre 2, SGH. In addition a live link was arranged to America after the surgery; this was in the form of an open discussion regarding the operation. This event was sponsored by ZIMMER and feedback was very good. If you are interested in this kind of teaching method please contact David.Whitcher@suht.swest.nhs.uk or Ext 6561.

1st Interdisciplinary School in Wound Healing This “summer school” type event was held in the Education Centre at SUHT on May 25th & 26th. The Faculty comprised a number of colleagues with an international reputation in wound healing and the registrants were trained podiatrists, tissue viability nurses, and a couple of scientists from both the University as well as industry. The meeting was facilitated by unrestricted educational grants that received from Smith & Nephew and KCI.

The delegates were welcomed by Mike Potter, School of Podiatry, University of Southampton. Most presentations were interactive, the themes being leg swelling, infection, systematic choice of dressings, what and how to measure, the role of Health Economics, and the Diabetic Foot. The workshops (on debridement, on bandaging techniques and on ‘how to use a vascular laboratory’) were fully subscribed, interactive and very enjoyable for those who presented as well as those who attended.

Based on verbal and formal feedback, the event well met the needs of the delegates who have asked the event to be presented again in 2007. Which has been agreed! For more details please contact Raj.Mani@suht.swest.nhs.uk

Ophthalmic Nurses Study DayThe Southampton Nurses Ophthalmic Group held a successful study day on May 12th with more than 100 nurses from across the South. The topics discussed included the RCN ophthalmic competencies, the role of the visual impairment officer, contact lenses, laser eye surgery and vitrectomy. The day coincided with international nurses day.

A workshop in debridement in progress. Luc Teot, Head of Burns Unit, Lapeyronnie Hospital, Montpellier, France can be seen in the

background instructing eager eager “debriders”

A group from Podiatry engaged in serious discussion (about wound healing no doubt!!)

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations(otherwise known as OSCEs!)Clinical Skills has just completed a phenomenal 3 months of frenetic activity preparing medical students for examination. In June 170 students took part in their OSCE examinations and in July over 200 medical students were assessed in clinical skills as part of the intermediate exams. These took place in the Clinical Skills rooms as well as three clinical outpatient areas.

While the OSCE exam days are busy events led predominantly by the School of Medicine, the weeks before see a fantastic amount of hard work put in by the Clinical Skills team who lead revision sessions and vast amounts of behind the scenes of work preparing the departments to run these sessions.

Supporting Learning in Practice for Healthcare Scientists/AHPsThe first multiprofessional study day to provide some training and support for those supervising learners was run on 29th June. There were 11 participants from variety of professions including dieticians, audiology, pharmacy, speech and language therapy, radiology and medical technology. The aim of the day was an introduction to the mentoring, supervising and educating role. Topics covered included learning styles, role of the educator, tools to assist training and development and evaluation.

The speakers included Julie Martin, Education Lead HCS and AHPs, Felicity Hargreaves, Workforce Development Directorate and Michelle Cerrato, Education and Training Pharmacist. A workbook was provided for all those attending including references and books available in the SUHT library on this topic.

Feedback from the participants was good, particularly from those new to this role. The workshops and role-play were found to be very useful and the participants enjoyed the multiprofessional aspect to the day. ‘Feedback’ and ‘managing poor performance’ were suggested as follow up topics. It is hoped to repeat this day in the autumn. For further details contact JulieP.Martin@suht.swest.nhs.uk.