Subject Resources: RLOs related to Cinical Skills

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RLOs related to Cinical Skills
Title	Description	Detail
Aseptic Non-Touch Technique	Introduces the concept of ANTT, used to prevent infection during clinical procedures; includes a video demonstration.
BMI measurement	This resource will explore the process of BMI measurement within healthcare, the different methods available to calculate BMI and some of the issues that influence its measurement.
Calculating medicines for children: applying standard formula	This RLO is aimed at providing examples of how to calculate medicines, specifically for children but it relates well to any aspect of calculating medicines.
Case note review using the Trigger Tool	To familiarise potential users of the Trigger Tool with identifying triggers and assigning levels of harm
Chronic wound assessment	This learning object outlines the principles of wound assessment and healing.
Clean your hands	The University of Nottingham has produced a DVD aimed at patients, healthcare workers and hospital visitors, which is being shown on plasma screens and bedside televisions in wards. The video outlines the importance of hand hygiene, and the practical steps that everyone can take to reduce the chances of damaging infections, such as MRSA and clostridium dificile, being passed to patients by healthcare workers and visitors. It's aimed at patients, healthcare workers and hospital visitors, and will also be useful for health care students in preparation for practice.
Components of a Respiratory Assessment	This rlo identifies the components of a respiratory assessment and briefly describe what happens at each stage in the assessment.
Critical Reflection	This resource is aimed primarily at students in healthcare practice to get them to reflect on their experiences and practice. The package explores the meaning and process of critical reflection, described by one author as "the process of looking back on what has been done and pondering on it and learning lessons from what did or did not work". The package has sections on areas such as Reflective Models (Gibbs, Johns, Driscoll), Self-assessment Tools, Practical Skills, and many other topics.
Doctor/Patient Relations	Understanding various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship. The RLO uses video clips to illustrate four styles of doctor-patient scenarios.
Dyslexia and Workplace Learning	How dyslexia affects student nurses on placement and their mentors. Includes guidelines and strategies for mentors and students.
Glove use	Explains the appropriate use of gloves in a clinical environment
Hand Hygiene	This learning object demonstrates, through streaming video clips, practical hand hygiene techniques for infection control in healthcare settings. There are also interactive self-assessment quizzes
Home hazards	Presents a reconstructed scene of a home visited by a health visitor; the student seeks areas of concern identified by the health visitor.
Home Visiting	This RLO outlines the significance of home visiting as an essential component in a programme of formal health care, and contains realistic exercises based on home interiors.
Improving patient safety: SBAR	This RLO introduces and demonstrates how to use an approved framework for clinical communication known as SBAR
Intracellular and Extracellular buffers	This RLO outlines the main intracellular and extracellular buffering systems within the body and shows how trhe carbonic acid buffering system can be assessed
Intramuscular injection by the Z track technique	Intramuscular injection by the Z track technique explains and demonstrates a safe technique for administering an intra-muscular injection.
Intramuscular Injection sites (for adults)	Intramuscular Injection sites (for adults) is designed to help you correctly identify which muscles may be used to safely administer intramuscular injections.
Intramuscular injections	This learning resource is an example of a Umbrella learning object(ULO), and contains a series of learning objects developed by the Clinical Skills - Injections mini-project team based here at the University of Nottingham.
Measuring peak flow	This learning resource explains how to use peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) to measure respiratory function.
Mentoring: Shaping practice	Mentoring is an umbrella term which encompasses the activity of developing the learning of others. This RLO aims to support mentors develop and review their knowledge, understanding and skill base. It can also be used by students to develop their understanding of the mentoring role.
Moral Theories	The term ‘ethics’ broadly describes the way in which we look at and understand life, in terms of good and bad or right and wrong. Moral theories are the frameworks we use to justify or clarify our position when we ask ourselves “what should I do in this situation?” or “what is right or wrong for me?”
Moving and handling in emergency situations	This RLO introduces students to the principles and practice associated with moving a patient/client in an emergency situation, by revising and applying the principles of moving and handling to such scenarios
Moving and handling: application of principles	This RLO explains the importance of applying good moving and handling principles. It describes the basic anatomy, physiology and functions of the spine and the effects of age/cumulative stress changes and their relevance to moving and handling.
Personal Protective Equipment	Examines when and how to use personal protective equipment in a healthcare setting.
SI Units and calculating unit changes	To identify what SI units are, when they are used, and how to calculate unit changes.
Skin preparation prior to intramuscular and subcutaneous injections	To gain an understanding of the issues associated with skin preparation for intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.
Subcutaneous injection sites	To gain an understanding of the issues associated with Subcutaneous injection sites.
Subcutaneous injection techniques	To gain an understanding of the issues associated with Subcutaneous injection techniques.
Understanding Dyslexia: an Introduction	An introduction to dyslexia, outlining both positive and negative aspects.
Understanding the Trigger Tool	To give an overview of how and why the Trigger Tool is used to measure the rate of harm within a healthcare organisation
Why do we need confidentiality?	Confidentiality is an important principle in health and social care because it functions to impose a boundary on the amount of personal information and data that can be disclosed without consent.