AllergyWise anaphylaxis online training for GPs and Practice Nurses
Designed for: General Practitioners | Practice Nurses
Description
As a GP or practice nurse seeing patients face to face every day, you need to know how to support them and their families, whether giving a severe allergy diagnosis or supporting their longer term care.
Improve your knowledge through 4 – 6 hours of self-directed study
- Guides to early recognition of symptoms
- Information on crisis management and emergency treatment
- Information on allergen avoidance
- Specific details on how the Primary Care team should manage patients with severe allergies, including:
- How and when to refer a patient to specialist allergy services
- What interim care and support should be given to patients while they wait for their appointment
- What long-term management and support patients need after diagnosis
- British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) endorsed
- Royal College of GPs accredited
Course time: 4 – 6 hours
Format: Online
Course qualifications: RCGP Certificate on completion
Course enrolment includes:
Two step-by-step guides to running your own training sessions:
- One for use with patients, families and friends, who may come to the surgery for information about allergies and anaphylaxis
- One which can be used to train colleagues, containing tips and key messages. The helpful suggestions on how to present this training to others provides a thorough guide to help those with limited experience of teaching
£60 plus VAT (Members)
£90 plus VAT (Non-members)
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AllergyWise Online Training for Healthcare Professionals
Suitable for: Nursery Nurses | School Nurses | First Aid Trainers
Description
As a nursery nurse, you need to know how to care for babies and very young children with severe allergies. With 5 – 8% of children now living with a food allergy and allergies of all kinds on the rise, it has never been more important to be prepared.
Improve your knowledge through 4 – 6 hours of self-directed study
The content of this course is accredited by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and endorsed by the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI). Learn to:
- Recognise the symptoms of a severe allergic reaction when children are too young to articulate distress
- Avoid allergen exposure and cross-contamination
- Use all currently licensed adrenaline injectors, including EpiPen®, Emerade® and Jext®
- Respond effectively to an emergency
- Step-by-step guide to help you run your own anaphylaxis training for others working in early years settings
Product details
Course time: 4 – 6 hours
Format: Online
Course qualifications: RCN Certificate on completion
- Trainer adrenaline injector devices to practise administering
- Exclusive film clips showing correct methods for using different devices
- Resources to help you run your own training sessions with confidence including lesson plans, presentations and speaker notes and a step-by-step guide
RSA/PLA Insurance Scheme Certified
This course has been approved by the Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA) as proof of satisfactory training in anaphylaxis – a requirement for PLA members who insure with the RSA/PLA scheme. This means that anyone successfully completing our AllergyWise for Healthcare Professionals course can train other people in their organisation to help in the care of severely allergic children.
Childcare staff will be considered appropriately trained provided that:
- The HCP course graduate’s AllergyWise for HCP RCN certificate is submitted to the PLA insurance team
- A list of all staff trained directly by the AllergyWise HPC course graduate is submitted to the PLA insurance team
- All members of the team working with allergic children are directly trained by the AllergyWise HCP course graduate
Refresher Training
We continually update the AllergyWise Healthcare Professionals course with new material as this becomes available. Contact us to find out how you can update your AllergyWise qualification.
£60 plus VAT (Members)
£90 plus VAT (Non-members)
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AllergyWise for Pharmacists
Designed for: Pharmacists / Dispensers / Technicians
This free online e-learning course is designed to provide comprehensive information and guidance for pharmacists on the management of severe allergic conditions and the knowledge to effectively support patients with severe allergies.
Topics include:
- Guide to early recognition of symptoms
- Allergic reaction mechanisms
- Emergency treatment
- Dispensing advice and impact on other health issues
- NICE Quality Standards on Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis
This course includes two modules, pharmacists can work through this course at their own pace, each module will take around 30 minutes to complete. Upon successful competition of this AllergyWise course (75% pass rate) you can buy a Certificate for £5 plus VAT for proof. There is a link at the end of the course.
Key facts
- Costs: Free, optional certificate for £5 plus VAT
- Type of course: Online e-learning
- Time to complete: Approximately 1 hour
The AllergyWise for Pharmacists course was originally developed in conjunction with Boots UK, and made possible by a grant from ALK.