Taking Action
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Spring 2008
With our compliments….
This edition announces the launch of a unique Toolkit which offers nurses a simple, effective way to produce business cases to successfully secure funds for their continuing professional development; ‘How To Make Your Case For Education and Training’. The Toolkit is freely available via this quarter’s e-Newsletter.
We also have a new resource on our website to detect a contributing factor to poor asthma control – check out the article below for further details.
Special thanks to Ruth Barlow for telling us about her success of tripling the size of her current pulmonary rehabilitation programme for Mid Essex.
If you want to share your news on how you are taking action to transform lives then drop us an email, we’d love to hear from you:
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Vicki Golding
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Education for Health
Taking action, educating people and transforming lives worldwide
Summary
Taking Action
- How To Make Your Case For Education and Training – Download unique Toolkit
- Case Study; Student secures funding to triple size of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme.
Guest Writer: Ruth Barlow, Respiratory Physiotherapist, Broomfield Hospital - Poor asthma control may be due to allergic rhinitis – Log onto new Template
- Patient Charter empowers patients and encourages partnership – Download FREE poster
Educating People
- Free access to courses for Health Professionals working in the East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humber SHA areas
- New Trainers offer more opportunities for locally delivered training
- 2008 Revised Course Programme – All courses can now be ‘locally delivered’
Transforming Lives Worldwide
- Taking the MSc Pathway – Letters between students reveal shared hopes, aspirations (and humour)
- New Feature - Behind the Headlines; First in new series of useful websites
- FREE subscription to British Journal of Primary Care Nursing - See what's coming up in June 08
Taking Action
How to make your case for education and training – Download unique Toolkit
New Toolkit offers nurses a simple, effective way to produce business cases to successfully secure funds for their continuing professional development. It contains evidence based, disease specific business proposals for nurses to use to establish their current levels of knowledge, understanding and experience. Business proposals have been launched for accredited education in Heart Failure, COPD, Asthma, Spirometry and Atrial Fibrillation…
For more information and to download the FREE Toolkit:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/businesscase.asp
Case Study; Student secures funding to triple size of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme.
Guest Writer: Ruth Barlow, Respiratory Physiotherapist, Broomfield Hospital
Having presented a business plan to the commissioning board, Ruth won funding to triple the size of the current pulmonary rehabilitation programme and they are now advertising for a full time band 2 and a part time band 6. Ruth tells us more…
Learn more about Ruth’s story:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/pulmonary1.pdf
Patient Charter empowers patients and encourages partnership – Download FREE poster
Primary Care nurses should display their certificates of accredited education in the consulting room and make sure that this education is detailed in practice leaflets and websites. This is just one of the key messages to come from our new Patient Charter for managing long term conditions…
To find out further details and download the FREE poster:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/charter.asp#charter1
Poor asthma control may be due to allergic rhinitis – Log onto new Template
More that half of your patients with asthma are likely to have allergic rhinitis; a contributing factor to poor asthma control (ARIA At-A-Glance Pocket Reference, 2007). A template has been developed to help you identify these patients. You are welcome to download this template on to your computer free-of-charge. All we ask in return is that you complete a very short questionnaire at the end of May to help us evaluate it…
For more information and to download the template:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#asthma1
Educating People
Free access to courses for Health Professionals working in the East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humber SHA areas
Expanded education commissioning arrangements with East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humber Strategic Health Authorities means that nursing and allied health professionals can now freely access a whole range of short courses, modules and programmes at diploma, degree and Masters levels. You can even arrange for fee-free team training in your own area for groups of 10 or more…
Obtain further details on free access to range of courses:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#access1
New Trainers offer more opportunities for locally delivered training
Education for Health trainers offer vital links to evidence-based practice. They influence the way health professionals approach learning by guiding them through the different aspects of disease management. Their facilitation skills encourage colleagues and students to really engage with their subject and relate theory to practice. All of them are practicing clinicians and many become key opinion leaders. We are delighted to welcome eight new Trainers to our team…
For more information on how to book training in your local area or how to become a trainer:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#trainers1
2008 Revised Course Programme – All courses can now be ‘locally delivered’
The new Course Programme contains the dates and locations of all courses which are enrolling now. It also acts as a check list of courses which can be delivered in your local area. This means that you can arrange for continuing professional development to be based around the wider needs of your practice, team or care pathway. With more than 50 courses and programmes in respiratory, cardiovascular and allergic disease, including new courses in diabetes, stroke and CVD risk assessment, you can access one of the largest flexible distance learning programmes in the world, right on your doorstep...
View our Course Programme for further details:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/course_prog_apr08.pdf
Transforming Lives Worldwide
Taking the MSc Pathway – Letters between students reveal shared hopes, aspirations (and humour)
Working as a member of the clinical team, Bev Cox has the chance to chat to students about the range of opportunities available to them for their continuing professional development. She received an enquiry from a student who was keen to find out more about the MSc course and importantly, about how to fit study around her life instead of vice versa…
Learn more about the MSc pathway:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/mscdiary1.pdf
New Feature - Behind the Headlines; First in new series of useful websites
Occasionally we have the good fortune to stumble across a website that proves to be an invaluable resource to our work. So please, let us know the useful sites you have found on the world wide web and why others could benefit from them…
Learn more online:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/behind_the_headlines1.pdf
FREE subscription to British Journal of Primary Care Nursing - See what's coming up in June 08
A unique journal developed specifically to meet the needs of primary care nurses in managing respiratory diseases – including COPD, asthma and allergy. Subscription is free - coming up in the June 08 Respiratory edition is:
- New Asthma Guidelines - Monica Fletcher
- Urticaria and angioedema - Dr Samantha Walker
- How to do an asthma review - Dr Mark Levy
- Allergy - Basic mechanisms - Dr Samantha Walker
For further information and to register for this journal free of charge: http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/bjpcn.asp
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