Publish date: 11 December 2023
Please see below information on new eLearning packages which staff can self-enrol onto via their ESR learner page.
000 Trauma Informed Care
NHS England’s elearning for healthcare and Mental Health team have worked together to develop a new elearning programme about trauma informed care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a growing need for health and care professionals to understand the dynamics and impact of trauma on the lives of individuals, families and communities.
Whilst embedding trauma informed care requires a systematic multi-faceted approach, the aim of this programme is to support the learner in deepening their understanding on the importance of becoming more trauma sensitive in the way care is delivered, both as an individual and within a team or service.
The programme, which is aimed at frontline health and care professionals, emergency services colleagues, violence reduction units and education staff, consists of five modules:
- Human Development and Responses to Threat
- What Do We Mean by Trauma?
- Basic Awareness, Concepts and Challenges
- Public Health and Prevention, Personal Capacity
- Making Trauma Informed Approaches Part of Healthcare
On completion of the programme learners will have a greater understanding of trauma and its impact on the lives of everyone who encounters services, including those who work within it. It will help learners to recognise and sensitively respond to people who have experienced trauma.
000 Makaton Training for Nurses
A new elearning resource for nurses to develop their understanding of Makaton and learn basic Makaton signs, has been added to the ESR catalogue.
The training provides information about the different ways in which people communicate, and how nurses need to consider these different options when caring for people. It also provides key techniques and tips to use as nurses to improve our communication skills, and provides resources that will help us as nurses to learn skills to effectively provide care for people with different communication needs and styles
By the end of the session, learners will know:
- how to better support patients who have communication difficulties
- how Makaton uses speech, signs and symbols as a means of communication and how to apply it in the workplace
- some basic vocabulary to start their Makaton journey
- how to access further information, training and support through the Makaton website.
It has been developed by NHS England and The Makaton Charity and is available free of charge for all nursing staff.
For more information, please visit the Makaton Training for Nurses webpage.
000 The safe use, storage and set up of medical gases and cylinders
This course is aimed anyone who works with medical gases and uses, transports, connects, disconnects, and handles medical gas cylinders in a healthcare environment.