Health E-Learning and Media Team
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| Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care Settings (APUEC) | This resource provides learners with the confidence and skills in screening, brief intervention and referral for treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol prevention in an urgent and emergency care setting. | Released | 03 Jun 2024 | 
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| Integrating Health Improvement and Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) | This learning resource explains the role of Urgent and Emergency Care Services (UECs) in health improvement and prevention. | Released | 03 Jun 2024 |
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| Female Genital Mutilation | In this resource women share their experiences of survivorship following Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and discuss the cultural factors associated. The challenge for healthcare professionals is to understand the cultural context behind the practice of FGM whilst providing care within a legislative framework. | Released | 03 May 2024 |
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| Arm@da - How to provide safe, appropriate and acceptable digital consultations in maternity care. | This resource provides guidance to health care professionals and students on how to provide safe, appropriate and acceptable digital consultations in maternity care. | Released | 05 Feb 2024 |
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| The importance of knowing the signs and symptoms of sarcoma cancer | This resource will help you identify the signs and symptoms of sarcoma and appropriately refer your clients to a general practitioner (GP) or provide them with the necessary information to seek medical attention themselves. It is important to note that some patients may receive incorrect reassurance from GPs regarding their symptoms not being indicative of a potential sarcoma. You will also learn how to recognise and rectify such errors by GPs, ensuring proper care for the patients. | Released | 13 Oct 2023 |
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| Exploring Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy: A Resource for Healthcare Professionals | Providing healthcare professionals and students with an increased awareness of the complex nature of vaccine hesitancy, which can then be utilised in future conversations with vaccine hesitant parents. | Released | 13 Jul 2023 |
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| Academic Writing for Publication: Information, Exercises and Individual Writing Journeys | This resource aims to help you in developing your skills in: - academic writing - preparing manuscripts for publication - writing funding applications It shares experiences of writing and publishing and gives professional advice on developing your writing and how to prepare, review and persevere with it. | Released | 10 Jan 2023 |
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| My baby has PRS-What next? | An online resource created by parents for parents of infants with Pierre Robin Sequence and supported by cleft lip and palate professionals. The resource is targeted at the time of diagnosis and the first year of your baby's life. | Released | 24 May 2022 |
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| An introduction to health-related online support groups | This resource helps raise awareness of online support groups for people living with or affected by long-term health conditions. | Released | 05 May 2022 |
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| Over2U - An introduction to handover in patient care | Handover is an essential element of patient care in a range of healthcare settings. It’s aim is to ensure the effective transfer and sharing of information across multidisciplinary teams. As a student nurse you’ll be involved in handover from the outset of your practice. This resource has been created by fellow students who’ve also already been through this experience and so understand some of the questions you may have. Their aim is to introduce you to the concept of handover, give you a chance to see it in action, hear from other students about their experiences in this area and look at some simple guidelines for carrying out best practice. | Released | 08 Mar 2022 |
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| From Silence to Voice | From Silence to Voice: Understanding the experiences and healthcare and support needs of women in South Africa who have experienced sexual violence | Released | 18 Nov 2021 |
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| Blood Glucose Testing - What do the numbers mean? | Blood Glucose Testing - What do the numbers mean? This resource is for people with Diabetes and others who want to understand blood glucose levels. | Released | 02 Nov 2021 |
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| Diabetes and Healthy Options | This resource will give you some tips on how to manage your blood glucose levels and explain how to eat healthily to keep your blood glucose levels stable. | Released | 02 Nov 2021 |
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| Diabetes and Low Blood Glucose | Diabetes and Low Blood Glucose - This resource will help you to understand what to do when your blood glucose level goes too low. | Released | 02 Nov 2021 |
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| The Diabetes Collection | This resource links to three Diabetes learning resources: Blood Glucose and what the numbers mean?, Healthy Options and Low Blood Glucose. | Released | 02 Nov 2021 |
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| Validating Questionnaires | In this resource, we will explore in detail the concepts and procedures that can be used to examine your questionnaire and ensure that it is fit for the research you want to undertake. | Released | 17 Jun 2021 |
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| Understanding Pragmatic Research | This resource contains information on how to do pragmatist research. It gives guidance on how to use possible pragmatist methodologies. | Released | 17 Jun 2021 |
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| Introducing Action Research | This RLO will help the student to broadly explain what action research is and what does it entail in a healthcare practice context | Released | 17 Jun 2021 |
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| The purpose and uses of qualitative research | To understand the purpose and potential uses of qualitative research | Released | 17 Jun 2021 |
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| Understanding Qualitative Field Work | Why you would want to do field work and what it is | Released | 17 Jun 2021 |
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| Identifying infants at greater risk of overweight | This learning resource will help you to understand the rationale for early identification of infants at risk of overweight and identify risk factors for child overweight which can be identified in the first year of life. the resources demonstrates how to use the IROC checklist to assess and understand an infant's risk of overweight. | Released | 12 Apr 2021 |
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| Supporting parents whose infants are at greater risk of childhood overweight | This resource will enable students and health professionals to help parents of infants at higher risk of child overweight implement strategies to promote healthy infant growth. | Released | 12 Apr 2021 |
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| Cultural competence in culturally mixed teams | Promoting the development of cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity in the context of working in a culturally mixed team. | Released | 14 Jul 2020 |
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| Disabling Barriers/Inhibitors and Empowering Cultural Communication | This resource will provide you with the opportunity to examine the challenges you may have when developing your cultural competence. It will help you develop cultural awareness and sensitivity for your future nursing practice. | Released | 09 Jul 2020 |
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| Personal Protective Equipment | Examines when and how to use personal protective equipment in a healthcare setting and has been updated due to the Coronavirus - Covid-19 pandemic. | Released | 15 May 2020 |
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| Bacteria and viruses compared | Introduces and compares the structural components associated with bacteria and viruses by allowing users to build their own. | Released | 08 Apr 2020 |
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| Sexual Safety for Women in In-Patient Mental Health Care Contexts | The aim of this resource is to explore the concept of Sexual Safety from the perspective of women who have accessed mental services in order to unpack and to develop a greater understanding of this multi-faceted phenomenon. In this resource we will also hear from a number of professionals who work with women who have accessed mental health care. | Released | 02 Mar 2020 |
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| Getting Infection Right First Time | In this e-learning package, you will be presented with a scenario around patient care. This resource is designed to help support health-care workers, and demonstrate that everyone has a key part to play in getting infection, diagnosis and management right for our patients. Without establishing the clinical and microbiological diagnosis, we can cause harm to our patients. | Released | 18 Nov 2019 |
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| Admission to Hospital | This resources looks at developing cultural awareness in health care nursing practice. Its main focus is to encourage reflection and awareness of cultural differences during a patient’s admission to a hospital ward. It also promotes an understanding of the importance of individualised nursing care and embraces the differences that meet the needs of patients based on their own values and beliefs. | Released | 02 Aug 2019 |
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| Admission to Hospital - Portuguese language version | Acolhimento do cliente num hospital - Is the Portuguese language version of the Admission to Hospital resource and has been developed as part of the TansCoCon project. The resource looks at developing cultural awareness in health care nursing practice. Its main focus is to encourage reflection and awareness of cultural differences during a patient’s admission to a hospital ward. It also promotes an understanding of the importance of individualised nursing care and embraces the differences that meet the needs of patients based on their own values and beliefs. | Released | 02 Aug 2019 |
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| Osmosis and Diffusion | Explaining the difference between the processes of diffusion and osmosis, and introducing the concepts of concentration gradients and tonicity. | Released | 25 Jul 2019 |
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| Allied Health Professional (AHP) Health and Work Report | Reusable Learning Object exploring the completion of the Allied Health Professional (AHP) Health and Work Report | Released | 08 Jul 2019 |
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| Operating Theatre Orientation | A short resource to help you orientate yourself within the operating theatre and connected rooms. | Released | 17 May 2019 |
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| Finding my new normal: Life after my child's cancer treatment has finished | This RLO will provide parents and carers of children and young people who have finished their cancer treatment with information and support. | Released | 17 May 2019 |
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| Gender based violence, a resource to support students in health and social care. | This resource introduces the issues faced by people who experience gender based violence. It will help increase an understanding for health and social care students’ of gender based violence, by focusing on violence against women within the four partner countries. This project is funded by U21 and is a partnership between the Universities of Auckland, Birmingham, British Columbia, Glasgow, Melbourne and Nottingham. It has beeen funded by U21. | Released | 20 Feb 2019 |
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| Developing Resilience | A reflective Reusable Learning Object (RLO) that looks at everyday nursing practices, sharing experiences and building a mask of resilience. | Released | 15 Feb 2019 |
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| Preparing for Interviews in Healthcare | This resource has been developed to help Nursing and Midwery students improve their interview skills. | Released | 15 Jan 2019 |
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| Midwife's abdominal examination in the antenatal period | This RLO demonstrates how to perform the midwife's examination of the abdomen in the antenatal period. It includes video clips of an abdominal examination, and references to professional (NMC) and NICE guidelines where appropriate. | Released | 18 Dec 2018 |
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| Cohort Studies | This resource looks at cohort studies in relation to medical research and investigates medical disease and establishes links between risk factors and health outcomes. | Released | 18 Dec 2018 |
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| Liver Anatomy | Introduction to the external and internal anatomy of the liver. | Released | 24 Oct 2018 |
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| Liver Physiology | Introduction to the physiology of the liver, examining its role in filtering blood, metabolism, nutrient extraction and homeostasis. | Released | 24 Oct 2018 |
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| Quantitative Study Designs | This resource explains study design and looks at the situations in which you might apply the different types of design methodology. | Released | 24 Oct 2018 |
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| Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Practice | This resource explores what a shared decision making model might need to look like in mental health settings if there was acknowledgement of hierarchies and the effects of power in the decision making process in mental health care. Whilst it is important for professional groups to maintain their professional identities in healthcare settings, they might also need to consider the importance of talking about these identities within multidisciplinary groups and acknowledge uncertainties of role and identity when the power to decide is shared amongst professional groups, service users and carers (I am not sure we address this in the resource – we could say the resource is based on a piece of research which looked at this). It is suggested that the concept of shared decision making should be broken down into its component parts to specify the “core conditions” for a shared decision to take place. We suggest that in order for this, to occur, all participants must be Informed, Involved and Influential (the three I’s) in the decision making process. However, the three “I”s of shared decision making are fluid, they refer to a sliding scale of influence that moves between these different positions depending on context, capacity and desire to influence. This RLO considers some of the challenges to shared decision making and how these may be overcome | Released | 02 Oct 2018 |
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| Ideal Ward Round | The Ideal Ward Round is a participatory action research (PAR) project in the field of quality improvement. The key project aims were: - to establish the views of patients, carers and professionals on the role, experience of and ways of improving ward rounds in the context of acute adult in-patient mental health services within one NHS Trust in England, and - to develop suitable recommendations that would lead to improvement in ward round functionality and experience for all parties, particularly patients This reusable learning object will enable you to think about how the recommendations of this project could influence your practice along with making changes to the structures and processes underpinning decision making in your practice area. | Released | 02 Oct 2018 |
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| Exploring the medicine experiences and needs of patients who are underserved | This e-learning resource has been co-produced with patients who belong to one or more under-served group. By listening to these individuals, it is intended that we can better understand their day-to-day circumstance and so better develop a sense of empathy with them. This will help encourage us to be consciously aware of individuals who are potentially most in need of support. | Released | 22 Jun 2018 |
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| Effectively interacting and engaging patients who are underserved | This resource will: Explore how unconscious biases can impact on the care we provide to those who are medically under-served Provide tips on how to enable individuals to empower themselves to take up the offer of a Medicines Use Review Enable you to develop your own personal development plan to promote Medicines Use Reviews to people who potentially need them the most | Released | 22 Jun 2018 |
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| Supporting medically under-served patients with their medicines | This collection of 3 RLOs was developed to support medically under-served patients with their medicines. | Released | 15 Jun 2018 |
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| Discovering and understanding under-served communities | This resource will help you to improve your awareness and understanding of individuals who are under-served and the health challenges they face. It will also help you reflect on how you can tailor your pharmacy's services to help these people. | Released | 15 Jun 2018 |
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| Randomised Control Trials (RCT) | This resource looks at Randomised Control Trials (RCT). Generally in a randomised controlled trial, study participants are randomly assigned or randomised to one of two groups: the experimental group receiving the intervention that is being tested and the comparison group (control) which receives a conventional treatment or placebo. These groups are then followed prospectively to assess the effectiveness of the intervention compared with the standard treatment or control. | Released | 14 Jun 2018 |
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| Case series and cross-sectional studies | Case series typically involve a much smaller number of patients than the more powerful case-control study or Randomised controlled trial (RCT). In this design patients with a known exposure to a treatment are tracked prospectively to identify new forms of disease or adverse effects. Case series can also be retrospective - here medical records are examined to identify a link between exposure and disease. | Released | 14 Jun 2018 |
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| Surrogate Outcomes | This RLO considers the type of evidence which should be used when making decisions about patient care. | Released | 12 Jun 2018 |
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| Sensitivity and Specificity | This RLO explains how diagnostic test accuracy is described by the terms sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting disease. Specificity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting health. | Released | 12 Jun 2018 |
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| Glomerular Filtration Pressure | The RLO deals with the opposing forces within the glomerulus and the Bowmans capsule which together create the glomerular filtration pressure. The RLO builds on the Starlings Forces RLO by the same author and is intended to form the basis for a future RLO on glomerular filtration rate. This RLO was developed jointly with De Montfort University. | Released | 12 Jun 2018 |
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| The Kidneys and Drug Excretion | The role of the kidneys in the excretion of drugs. | Released | 12 Jun 2018 |
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| The Liver and drug metabolism | The role of the liver in the metabolism of drugs. | Released | 12 Jun 2018 |
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| Kidney Physiology | Introduction to the physiology of the kidney, examining the processes by which the kidneys filter blood, control body pH and eliminate the waste products of metabolism from the body. | Released | 22 Mar 2018 |
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| Meta-analysis | This RLO provides an introduction to the basic concepts of meta-analysis, which is an important and valuable tool for summarising data from multiple studies. | Released | 27 Sep 2017 |
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| Case-control studies | This resource looks at cases (diseased subjects) and controls (non-diseased subjects) and investigates their exposure status. | Released | 12 Sep 2017 |
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| Confidence intervals | This RLO defines the term 'confidence intervals' and demonstrates how they can be used to determine the significance and range of possible sizes of a treatment effect. | Released | 04 Sep 2017 |
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| Numbers needed to treat and numbers needed to harm | This RLO considers how to measure and interpret the magnitude of effect in clinical trial results using number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH). | Released | 17 Aug 2017 |
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| What are Journals? | This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types: Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of nursing, but the concepts are cross-discipline. | Released | 05 Jun 2017 |
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| Acids, Alkalis and Bases: an Introduction | Defining and explaining acids, bases, and alkalis, from an ionic standpoint, and introducing the pH scale. | Released | 31 May 2017 |
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| Acids, Alkalis and Bases: Further Application | Examining the operation and application of acids, bases and alkalis, including neutralisation, acid/base reactions, and salts. | Released | 31 May 2017 |
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| Fire safety | This resource has been developed to help provide mandatory faculty based fire safety training at the University of Nottingham. It has been openly released as it is a useful general fire safety guide. | Released | 31 Mar 2017 |
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| Why critique research? | Why published research needs to be appraised by readers. | Released | 21 Mar 2017 |
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| Dying in hospital | This learning resource ' Dying in Hospital' addresses the topic of the hospital as a place of death for frail older people and is based on some research findings from an Alzheimer's Society funded research study. A linked resource 'Every death is Different' is also available. | Released | 15 Mar 2017 |
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| Plasma Proteins and Drug Distribution | Examing the role of plasma proteins in the blood in the distribution and elimination of drugs in the body. | Released | 28 Feb 2017 |
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| Every death is different | This learning resource 'Every death is Different' addresses the topic of the hospital as a place of death for frail older people and is based on some research findings from an Alzheimers Society funded research study. A linked resource ' Dying in Hospital' is also available. | Released | 28 Feb 2017 |
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| Qualitative and quantitative research | Outlining the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods of doing research. | Released | 13 Feb 2017 |
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| What is referencing? | This RLO outlines the importance of referencing and how to refer to the work of others appropriately. Interactive tasks illustrate the range of materials that can be referenced and examples of plagiarism. This resource has been re-purposed and replaces an older Flash based version. | Released | 26 Jan 2017 |
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| Levels of Measurement: what you can and can't do arithmetically | An explanation of the statistical operations that can be performed on the different levels of measurement. This resource has been re-purposed and an HTML5 version has replaced the original version. | Released | 13 Jan 2017 |
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| Managing challenging behaviour in healthcare settings | This resource on managing challenging behaviour in healthcare settings is one in a series of 3, and focuses on the subject of working with Challenging Situations. It is primarily aimed at 3rd year healthcare students. | Released | 15 Dec 2016 |
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| Responding to behaviour that challenges in healthcare settings | This resource on responding to behaviour that challenges in healthcare settings is one in a series of 3, and focuses on the subject of working with Challenging Situations. It is primarily aimed at 2nd year healthcare students. | Released | 09 Dec 2016 |
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| Drug-receptor interaction | Introduction to the interaction of cell receptors with drugs. This resource was first released in June 2004. It has been re-purposed by the Helm team in 2016. | Released | 06 Dec 2016 |
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| Assessing risk and managing safety with children and young people admitted with self-harm | This RLO is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series of resources. This resource will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with information about how to assess and manage risk with children and young people admitted to children's wards with self-harm. | Released | 25 Nov 2016 |
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| Effective communication with children and young people following self-harm admission | This RLO is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series of resources. This RLO will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with communication skills and strategies to improve care for children and young people who are admitted to hospital following an incident of self-harm. | Released | 25 Nov 2016 |
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| Understanding self-harm and care pathways for children and young people admitted to hospital | This resource is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series. This RLO will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with knowledge of self-harm in children and young people who have been admitted to hospital. The RLO will also cover the care pathways of children and young people who self-harm. | Released | 25 Nov 2016 |
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| OCTOE - Our care through our eyes - Complete series | This resources is the complete serries of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), project. It contains all three titles: Assessing risk and managing safety with children and young people admitted with self-harm Effective communication with children and young people following self-harm admission Understanding self-harm and care pathways for children and young people admitted to hospital. | Released | 25 Nov 2016 |
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| Hello My Name is Tom | This resource gives an insight into the world of a young person with an Autistic Spectrum disorder (ASD). It concentrates on interaction with Tom, a young person with ASD, within the school environment. The RLO was created by a learning disability nursing student based on his interaction with a number of individuals with ASD. This RLO won the 2009 Fiona Law prize for student-led innovation awarded by the National Network of Learning Disability Nursing. This resource was re-purposed in 2016. | Released | 17 Nov 2016 |
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| Identifying triggers for behaviour that challenges in healthcare settings | This resource on Identifying triggers for behaviour that challenges in healthcare settings is one in a series of 3, and focuses on the subject of working with Challenging Situations. It is primarily aimed at 1st year healthcare students. | Released | 18 Oct 2016 |
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| Probability associated with inferential statistics | An introduction to probability, and the probability of sample errors affecting research results. | Released | 10 Oct 2016 |
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| Our Child | This e-learning package is designed to empower parents who have a child with Down's syndrome and who are facing congenital heart surgery. It also takes parents and professionals on a journey through one family's story from diagnosis, surgery to living life to the full. | Released | 10 Oct 2016 |
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| Unlocking the code | A resource developed through partnership with the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham and Birmingham City University. By completing this resource the learner will be able to: Demonstrate a working knowledge of the four principles within the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code. Discuss the importance of professional behaviour and acting appropriately to prevent distress and harm. Identify the significance of public trust in the nursing profession. | Released | 15 Sep 2016 |
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| Introduction to childhood development - Grow-wise™ | This resource was developed as part of the Grow-wise project by the Helm, the Child Branch team here at the School and Nottingham County Council. | Released | 17 Aug 2016 |
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| Unlocking stories - Experiences of older women who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse | A co-production learning resource which has used an arts based narrative approach to explore the experiences of older women who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse. The resource is open access and aims to reach a wide professional audience including those working in health and social care environments. | Released | 11 Jul 2016 |
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| Stress Management for Healthcare Students on Clinical Placement | A guide to managing the stress associated with clinical placement – designed by students, for students. | Released | 15 Jan 2016 |
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| Digital Remains: The technological traces we leave behind | Do you ever wonder what happens to our personal digital content when we die? This resource explores the many issues arising from digital identity and content, and how it might be accessed by the bereaved. This RLO is an output of a research project led in Nottingham by Morna O'Connor about death, dying and bereavement and the role of technology in health. | Released | 06 Jan 2016 |
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| Dementia and Cognitive Loss - Caring for people with dementia in the general hospital | Dementia is very common. A quarter of general hospital in-patients have cognitive impairment, Dementia or dementia complicated by delirium. Almost all healthcare professionals who look after adults will encounter patients with these problems, we all need the knowledge and skills to care for them. | Released | 04 Sep 2015 |
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| Person-centred dementia care - Caring for people with dementia in the general hospital | This RLO looks at what person-centered dementia care is and using filming of healthcare professionals caring for people with dementia, shows how person-centered care can be applied on a hospital ward. | Released | 04 Sep 2015 |
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| Communication - Caring for people with dementia in the general hospital | This RLO looks at people with dementia who experience difficulties in both understanding others and saying what they want to say. This usually progresses as the disease progresses. This RLO looks at problems people with dementia experience when communicating and strategies healthcare professionals can use to improve their communication. | Released | 04 Sep 2015 |
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| Participant and non-participant observation - making the right choice | This RLO looks at Participant and non-participant observation and helps the learner to make the right choice. | Released | 02 Apr 2014 |
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| Understanding Midwifery within the UK | This RLO provides an overview of midwifery education and career pathways in the UK, including an introduction to the diversity of midwifery roles. | Released | 01 Oct 2013 |
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| Safeguarding Vulnerable People | A collection of resources that support you in your professional development with regard to 'Safeguarding vulnerable People'. | Released | 19 Sep 2013 |
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| PPIVMs of the cervical spine | A short introduction to the concept of manual therapy for the cervical spine for Physiotherapy undergraduate students. | Released | 13 Aug 2013 |
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| Hiv for Nurses | This resource looks at the Basics of HIV, transmission Routes, Antiretrovirals and Nursing Practice including real life experiences of people living with HIV whilst in inpatient settings. | Released | 17 Jun 2013 |
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| Reflective Writing Tools | This resource has been developed to help students understand self help reflection. | Released | 24 May 2013 |
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| Understanding Nursing within the UK | This RLO provides an overview of nursing education and career pathways in the UK, including an introduction to the main nursing roles. | Released | 24 Aug 2012 |
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| Navigating NHS services | This RLO provides an introduction to NHS services for international students. | Released | 24 Aug 2012 |
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| Safer Urinary Catheter Care | This resource is designed to help healthcare professionals understand the dangers associated with urinary catheters and the correct ways in which to care for them to help prevent infection. The resource uses video clips and interactive elements as well as text. | Released | 24 Aug 2012 |
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| Involving service users and carers in your teaching | Service users, carers and patients are increasingly involved in the education of health and social care professionals - just as their involvement is increasingly built in to the running of health and social care services. This learning package concentrates on preparation and practical issues for involving people with teaching and speaking to students. | Released | 30 Jul 2012 |
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| ACCE | The ACCE framework is a helpful model in order to emphasise the key components of a genetic test evaluation. The guiding principle of the ACCE framework is that the evaluation of genetic tests should be an integrated approach including all domains. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Clinical Utility of Genetic Information | Clinical Utility refers to the likelihood that genetic information will lead to an improved health outcome. Evaluating clinical utility involves defining issues that need to be considered with the introduction of genetic information into routine practice. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| DNA | This resource looks at techniques for detecting, copying, and sequencing DNA, including hybridisation and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| 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? | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Patents | This resource examines the topic of patents, of particular relevance to medicine and pharmacology. A patent is a legal title that provides an inventor exclusive property rights to their invention for the length of the patent period. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Penetrance | This resource examines the concept of penetrance, which is the probability that a person carrying a disease-associated genotype will develop the disease within a given time period. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Pharmacogenetics | Pharmacogenetics refers to the study of genetic influences on an individual's response to drugs. In pharmacogenetics, the analysis of a specific gene, or group of genes, may be used to predict responses to a specific drug or class of drugs. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Using Twin and Adoption Studies | This resource examines the use of twins and adopted children in research into the genetic predisposition to disease. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Identifying Specific Genetic Variants Related to Disease Susceptibility | This resource looks at genetic factors affecting susceptibility to disease. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Informed consent | Consent is a basic component of many types of every day encounter - but it is particularly relevant to the interaction between an individual and a healthcare professional (or someone acting on their behalf). This is because without consent many actions that are an integral part of healthcare, such as medical examination or treatment, are unlawful. | Released | 12 Mar 2012 |
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| Alcohol as a public health issue | This learning resource will increase your knowledge and understanding of how alcohol impacts on public health in a physical, psychological and social way. | Released | 20 Jan 2012 |
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| Measurement and identification of levels of alcohol consumption | This learning resource will increase knowledge and understanding of how alcohol is measured and how levels of alcohol consumption can be quantified using an identification tool. | Released | 20 Jan 2012 |
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| Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice | This learning resource introduces the concept of IBA (Identification and Brief Advice) and demonstrates the importance of communication skills and an informal approach when using AUDIT and delivering brief advice. | Released | 20 Jan 2012 |
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| Subcutaneous injection sites | To gain an understanding of the issues associated with Subcutaneous injection sites. | Released | 12 Dec 2011 |
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| 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. | Released | 07 Oct 2011 |
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| Chronic wound assessment | This learning object outlines the principles of wound assessment and healing. | Released | 17 Aug 2011 |
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| Organisation of Organs | Describes how a hollow organ such as the intestine, and a compact organ such as a salivary gland, are formed from the four basic tissue types. | Under development | 04 Jul 2011 |
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| Different types of Epithelia | Relates the microscopic appearance and structure of epithelia to their function. | Under development | 04 Jul 2011 |
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| Collagen formation | Describes how collagen fibres are assembled in the formation of connective tissue. | Under development | 04 Jul 2011 |
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| Fy nhŷ i, fy hawliau i | Welsh translation of: My House, My Rights. Mae r pecyn hwn yn mynd ar daith ryngweithiol o amgylch ty unigolyn gydag anableddau dysgu. Ym mhob ystafell caiff y dysgwr ei herio gan rai o'r ffyrdd y caiff hawliau unigolion ag anableddau dysgu eu diystyru gan ddarparwyr gofal iechyd yn eu cartrefi eu hunain. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar Y Porth, sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg. http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/ | Released | 02 Feb 2011 |
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| Gall rhywbeth bach wneud gwahaniaeth mawr | Welsh translation of: Little things make a big difference. Mae r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn seiliedig ar drafodaeth rhwng gweithiwr gofal iechyd a chleient gydag anableddau dysgu. Mae'n dangos pa mor bwysig yw hyd yn oed yr agweddau lleiaf ar gyfathrebu i greu trafodaeth gadarnhaol. Mae r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar Y Porth, sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/ | Released | 02 Feb 2011 |
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| Dyma Steve | Welsh Translation of This is Steve Mae r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn dangos y math o wybodaeth y gallai rhywun ag anabledd dysgu fod eisiau i ofalwyr feddu arni cyn dod i ofalu amdanynt. Mae wedi ei ysgrifennu o safbwynt y defnyddiwr gwasanaeth gyda chymorth nyrs dan hyfforddiant. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar Y Porth, sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/ | Released | 02 Feb 2011 |
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| Ymateb i fynegiant o rywioldeb1 | This is a Welsh translation of Responses to Expressions of Sexuality. Mae r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn seiliedig ar senario am y ffyrdd y mae John, dyn gydag anableddau dysgu, yn mynegi ei rywioldeb. Mae n edrych ar ymateb, barn a theimladau John ac yn eu cymharu gydag ymateb, barn a theimladau ei weithiwr gofal iechyd. Mae n herio r dysgwr i ystyried ei farn ei hun am y materion hyn. Mae r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar Y Porth, sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg. http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/ | Released | 02 Feb 2011 |
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| Food Hygiene | This learning package is aimed at health care professionals whose role involves them in the preparation or delivery of food in a health care setting. The package will explore: The professional role in relation to food delivery, types of food contamination and their prevention, preventing the growth of microorganisms in or around food, safe storage and preparation of food in the health care setting and destroying microorganisms in and around food. | Released | 31 Jan 2011 |
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| Kinase-linked receptors | This learning resource explains the mechanism and action of kinase-linked receptors. It has been designed to work easily with the Core tool, an application currently under development. The Core tool will enable tutors to collect, organise and aggregate various resources and package them as one learning object. | Released | 22 Dec 2010 |
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| Subcutaneous injection techniques | To gain an understanding of the issues associated with Subcutaneous injection techniques. | Released | 08 Dec 2010 |
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| Action of drugs that target ion channels | This learning resource introduces ion channels as target for drug action. | Released | 03 Dec 2010 |
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| Action of drugs that target carriers | This learning resource introduces carriers as a target for drug action and describes how carriers function and how drugs utilise these carriers. | Released | 25 Nov 2010 |
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| 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 | Released | 25 Nov 2010 |
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| 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. | Released | 25 Nov 2010 |
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| Introducing Metabolism | This learning resource looks at anabolic and catabolic metabolism. It describes the metabolic fate of energy substrates within the body and the relationships between subunits, storage and breakdown. | Released | 04 Nov 2010 |
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| 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 | Released | 22 Sep 2010 |
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| Case note review using the Trigger Tool | To familiarise potential users of the Trigger Tool with identifying triggers and assigning levels of harm | Released | 22 Sep 2010 |
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| 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. | Released | 27 Jul 2010 |
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| Baby first! | A resource designed to help healthcare professionals to support families over the first important year of life when their baby has an intellectual disability. | Released | 20 Jul 2010 |
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| How ligand-gated ion channel receptors communicate messages | This learning object explains how ligand-gated channel receptors signal messages. | Released | 28 Jun 2010 |
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| Qualitative Data Analysis | The aim of this Reusable Learning Object (RLO) is to give you an idea of how qualitative data analysis is done. It's aimed at students studying evidence based practice or research methods, with a basic understanding of what qualitative research is. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| What is Evidence Based Practice? | This RLO introduces the concept of evidence based practice and explains, in outline, how evidence based practice is done. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| Asking the right question | This RLO outlines why asking the right question can help in the search for evidence, and explains how to construct good questions using the PICO technique. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| Types of qualitative research | This RLO outlines the variety of types of qualitative research that there are. It's aimed primarily at students studying evidence based practice and research methods. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| What is a randomised controlled trial? | This RLO outlines how Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) work. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| Cohort and case-controlled studies | This RLO explains what are case-control and cohort studies, and outlines the difference between them. | Released | 11 Jun 2010 |
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| Little Things Make a Big Difference | This RLO is based around an interaction between a healthcare professional and a client with learning disabilities. It shows how important even small aspects of communication are in formulating a positive interaction. | Released | 12 Apr 2010 |
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| Responses to Sexuality | This RLO is based on a scenario which involves the expressions of sexuality by John, a man with learning disabilities. It looks at John's responses, views and feelings and compares them with those of his health care worker. It challenges the learner to review their own views to these issues. | Released | 18 Mar 2010 |
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| Action of drugs that target enzymes | To describe how enzymes function and how drug inhibitors block this action. | Released | 11 Mar 2010 |
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| 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. | Released | 09 Feb 2010 |
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| Measuring peak flow | This learning resource explains how to use peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) to measure respiratory function. | Released | 04 Feb 2010 |
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| Improving patient safety: SBAR | This RLO introduces and demonstrates how to use an approved framework for clinical communication known as SBAR | Released | 28 Jan 2010 |
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| Skin preparation prior to intramuscular and subcutaneous injections | To gain an understanding of the issues associated with skin preparation for intramuscular and subcutaneous injections. | Released | 18 Jan 2010 |
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| Keeping physically active | This RLO describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project. | Released | 12 Nov 2009 |
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| 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. | Released | 09 Nov 2009 |
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| G-protein linked receptors | This learning object explains how G - proteins function in communication messages from membrane-bound receptors. | Released | 15 Oct 2009 |
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| Targets for Drug Actions | This RLO explains the four major targets at which drugs act, namely receptors, ion channels, carriers and enzymes | Released | 08 Oct 2009 |
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| An introduction to receptor pharmacology | To describe the different types of receptor which drugs target. | Released | 08 Oct 2009 |
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| Physical activity and health | This RLO outlines the importance physical and mental health benefits to the individual of physical exercise. The second RLO in this series describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project. | Released | 23 Sep 2009 |
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| 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 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus 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. | Released | 06 Aug 2009 |
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| My House, My Rights | This package takes an interactive journey through the house of an individual with learning disabilities. In each room the learner is challenged by some of the ways that the rights of individuals with LD are often disregarded by HCPs within their own homes. | Released | 25 Jun 2009 |
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| Introduction to Nociception | This learning object helps the learner to describe the main components of the nociceptive pathways. | Released | 12 Jun 2009 |
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| Perception of pain | The Perception of pain learning resource is one of a series of objects which have been developed for the Pain pathways project. | Released | 12 Jun 2009 |
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| Transduction of pain | The Transduction of pain learning resource is part of a series of objects being developed for the nociceptive pathways project. | Released | 12 Jun 2009 |
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| Transmission of pain | The Transmission of pain learning resource is part of a series of objects being developed for the nociceptive pathways project. | Released | 12 Jun 2009 |
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| Pain Pathways ULO | This learning object describes the main components of the nociceptive pathways. | Released | 12 Jun 2009 |
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| 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. | Released | 19 May 2009 |
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| 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. | Released | 19 May 2009 |
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| Crossword - Introduction to Receptor Pharmacology | This RLO uses a crossword to assess your knowledge about the different receptor types and how drugs interact with them. | Released | 05 May 2009 |
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| Planning for improvement | This learning resource focuses on identification of potential improvements, by focusing on the patient journey. It outlines the need to understand the system and processes involved and challenges the learners to think about the potential impact of any change and all of the people it is likely to affect. | Released | 03 Apr 2009 |
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| Improving your practice | This learning resource will help you to look at your own practice, to identify areas for improvement. It focuses on the importance of getting the measurement strategy right in order to show any effects of your improvement ideas. It also highlights how improving practice relates to your professional development and the knowledge and skills framework. | Released | 03 Apr 2009 |
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| Tissue Fluid Formation | This RLO describes the distribution of fluids within the body and describes the forces involved in the circulation of fluids between the capillary and tissue compartments. | Released | 03 Apr 2009 |
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| This is Steve | This resoiurce shows the sort of information that someone with a learning disability might want carers to know before they come to care for them. It is written from the perspective of a service user with the help of a student nurse. | Released | 03 Apr 2009 |
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| Improving Care | This learning resource introduces the concept of improvement within health and social care. It shows how improvement may be initiated and evaluated. It also explains how improvement is everyone's concern, with small changes having the potential for large impact. | Released | 02 Apr 2009 |
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| Importance of Drug Receptor Location | This the first Umbrella Learning Object (ULO) to be developed and contains the following Pharmacology RLO titles: Receptor location, Membrane Bound Receptors, Intracellular Receptors and Clinical importance and application. | Released | 13 Mar 2009 |
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| Clinical importance and receptor location within the cell | This learning object illustrates the clinical importance of receptor location in relation to the speed of drug action in practice. | Released | 11 Mar 2009 |
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| Importance of intracellular receptor location to the speed of drug action | To explain how binding of a drug to an intracellular receptor influences cellular activity and how this relates to the timing of drug action. | Released | 10 Mar 2009 |
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| Importance of membrane bound receptors to the speed of drug action | To determine the clinical importance of receptor location in determining the time of onset of drug effect. | Released | 09 Mar 2009 |
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| Receptor location and the speed of drug action | To explain how cellular receptor location influences the speed of drug action. | Released | 06 Mar 2009 |
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| 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. | Released | 04 Feb 2009 |
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| Childhood obesity | Examines the issue of childhood obesity from the perspectives of the biomedical, behavioural and socio-economic models of health | Released | 04 Feb 2009 |
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| Prokaryotes and eukaryotes | This RLO describes the characteristics of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. | Released | 26 Jan 2009 |
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| Clinical impact of changes in drug clearance | Examines some of the factors which affect total body clearance of a drug and how this, in turn, influences a drug's clinical impact. | Released | 20 Jan 2009 |
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| Introduction to portfolios and their uses | To identify what a portfolio is, why they are used and to identify some pieces of material that may be used to support claims for learning and development. | Released | 19 Dec 2008 |
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| 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 | Released | 19 Nov 2008 |
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| Heart Failure | This RLO deals with the pathophysiology of heart failure, drug treatments, and nursing management. | Released | 24 Oct 2008 |
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| Introduction to drug clearance | Provides a definition of clearance and a basic explanation of the processes | Released | 18 Sep 2008 |
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| Advanced literature searching | How to construct literature search enquiries using the thesaurus, focus or explode your search, use the search term taxonomy to refine your search and combine these methods into an advance search protocol. | Released | 05 Jun 2008 |
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| Structures of the brain | This learning resource allows the learner to label a diagram of the brain and is aimed at identification of the major areas of the brain (cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla, pons, midbrain, thalamus, hyporthalamus and pituitary gland). Once correctly labelled, the learner can access information about these structures. Additional interactions allow the learner to explore the diagram to discover the structures for themselves, whilst an MCQ allows them to test their knowledge. | Released | 07 May 2008 |
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| Events of the Menstrual Cycle | This RLO describes the timing and main events for each of the phases of the menstrual cycle. It concentrates on the main events occurring in the ovary and uterine wall during these phases | Released | 11 Mar 2008 |
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| Referencing websites using Harvard | This resource outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a website for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a website. | Released | 21 Jan 2008 |
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| Referencing Journals using Harvard | This resources outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a journal article for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a printed journal. | Released | 21 Jan 2008 |
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| Referencing Books using Harvard | This resource outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a book for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a book. | Released | 21 Jan 2008 |
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| Hydrogen Bonding | Outlining the nature of the hydrogen bond, how it differs from other molecular bonds, and its importance in biological molecules, particularly proteins. | Released | 16 Nov 2007 |
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| Volume of distribution | Explains the pharmacological concept of Volume of Distribution, and how it is calculated. | Released | 15 Nov 2007 |
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| Educational Journals | This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types. Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of social work, but the concepts are cross-discipline. | Released | 04 Oct 2007 |
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| Should Sarah smack her child? | This RLO explores the ethical dimension and different views surrounding the use of mild smacking as a means of punishment. Should Sarah smack her child? This RLO introduces you to a range of stakeholders with differing viewpoints and allows you to record your own responses to their opinions. | Released | 03 Oct 2007 |
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| Aseptic Non-Touch Technique | Introduces the concept of ANTT, used to prevent infection during clinical procedures; includes a video demonstration. | Released | 03 Sep 2007 |
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| 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. | Released | 30 Aug 2007 |
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| How to conduct a literature search | Practical examples of searching databases of journal articles (eg CINAHL, BNI), including screen movies of actual searches. | Released | 27 Jul 2007 |
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| Presenting and interpreting meta-analyses | How to present and interpret the results of a meta-analysis using forest plots. | Released | 28 Jun 2007 |
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| Solutions and Electrolytes | Examining the mechanisms of chemical solution and how solvents work, and the roles of ions and electrolytes in chemical activity within the body. | Released | 08 May 2007 |
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| Glove use | Explains the appropriate use of gloves in a clinical environment | Released | 24 Apr 2007 |
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| 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. | Released | 20 Apr 2007 |
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| Referencing your work with Harvard | Introduction to the Harvard style of literature referencing, incorporating an interactive referencing tool for students. | Released | 16 Mar 2007 |
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| Elements that make up the human body | Introducing the periodic table of elements, and identifying the major elements involved in the human body and their roles | Released | 15 Mar 2007 |
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| Atomic Bonding | Examining ionic, covalent and mixed bonding in atoms. | Released | 15 Mar 2007 |
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| Determining the clinical importance of trial results | This RLO demonstrates how to interpret and use clinical trial data (ARR, RRR, NNT, NNH, and confidence intervals) in practice. | Released | 14 Mar 2007 |
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| Positive and negative predictive value of diagnostic tests | This RLO explains how diagnostic test results are a combination of true and false positive, or true and false negative. | Released | 02 Feb 2007 |
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| Dyslexia and Workplace Learning | How dyslexia affects student nurses on placement and their mentors. Includes guidelines and strategies for mentors and students. | Released | 29 Jan 2007 |
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| Cross-tabular data | This RLO examines how survey or experimental data can be converted to cross tabular data, and the steps involved in this process. It also examines how to present it in a way that is useful for recognising patterns and representing graphically. | Released | 25 Jan 2007 |
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| SI Units and calculating unit changes | To identify what SI units are, when they are used, and how to calculate unit changes. | Released | 26 Oct 2006 |
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| Basic referencing with modified Harvard | Introduction to the modified Harvard style of literature referencing, incorporating an interactive referencing tool for students. | Discontinued | 26 Oct 2006 |
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| Inflammatory response | Describes the inflammatory response - a series of local cellular and vascular responses which are triggered when the body is injured or invaded by micro-organisms or antigen. | Released | 24 Oct 2006 |
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| Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic influences of aminoglycoside dosing | Examines how the absorbtion and distribution of aminoglycosides within the body affects the dosing regimens used. | Released | 02 Oct 2006 |
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| Mitosis: an interactive demonstration | This is an interactive demonstration of the stages of cell mitosis. You can view the whole process in one continuous animation, or view the invidual stages one by one. This learning object is part of the Cell Division RLO, where it appears as a popup on the Mitosis page. There's also a demonstration of Meiosis available. | Released | 09 Sep 2006 |
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| Gateways to health | A collection of 13 videos (Real Video format) with people talking about their chronic health problems: | Released | 08 May 2006 |
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| Relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction | This RLO considers how to measure and interpret the magnitude of effect in clinical trial results using relative risk reduction (RRR) and absolute risk reduction (ARR). | Released | 29 Mar 2006 |
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| 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. | Released | 07 Mar 2006 |
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| Designing a Questionnaire | This RLO introduces good practice in questionnaire design, step by step. | Released | 01 Feb 2006 |
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| 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 | Released | 16 Nov 2005 |
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| Structure of the Atom | An introduction to basic atomic structure | Released | 11 Nov 2005 |
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| Steps in conducting a systematic review | This RLO outlines the five fundamental steps to conducting a systematic review of health care research so as identify, select and critically appraise relevant research. | Released | 27 Oct 2005 |
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| Using databases to find journal articles | An introduction to online databases of journals relevant to nurses (eg CINAHL, BNI). | Released | 20 Sep 2005 |
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| Understanding Dyslexia: an Introduction | An introduction to dyslexia, outlining both positive and negative aspects. | Released | 20 Sep 2005 |
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| Meiosis: an interactive demonstration | This is an interactive demonstration of the stages of cell mitosis. You can view the whole process in one continuous animation, or view the individual stages one by one. This learning object is part of the Cell Division RLO, where it appears as a popup on the Meiosis page. | Released | 09 Sep 2005 |
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| Search strategy for locating Randomised Controlled Trials | Introduction to search strategies for locating randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in online databases. | Released | 05 Sep 2005 |
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| Cell Division | To identify the importance of cell division and briefly describe mitosis and meiosis. | Released | 01 Sep 2005 |
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| Descriptive statistics for interval and ratio scale data | Describing the use of measures of central tendency - mean, mode, median - and dispersion - range, Standard Deviation. | Released | 01 May 2005 |
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| Concentration gradients | This RLO describes the concept of concentration gradients in biological systems through analogy with gradients found in everyday life, and outlines passive and active transport across cell membranes. | Released | 01 May 2005 |
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| 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. | Discontinued | 01 Apr 2005 |
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| Respiratory ventilation: anatomy and mechanics | Presents the purpose of ventilation, the anatomical parts involved, and the muscular activity that enables ventilation to take place at rest. | Released | 14 Mar 2005 |
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| Starling's Forces | An examination of the roles of hydrostatic and oncotic pressure in movement of fluid and gases across the capillary wall. | Released | 05 Jan 2005 |
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| Homeostasis | Introduction to the principles of homeostasis. | Released | 29 Nov 2004 |
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| International classification of function | International Classification of Function (ICF) is akin to the International Classification of Disease (ICD) used to classify diseases and mortality, but concentrates on health and combines psychosocial as well as biological theory. The two are interrelated and complimentary. | Released | 10 Nov 2004 |
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| Kidney Anatomy | Introduction to the external and internal anatomy of the kidney. | Released | 01 Oct 2004 |
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| Lock and Key Hypothesis | Introducing the lock and key analogy of drug-receptor interaction, whereby only drugs of a certain molecular shape will 'fit' with a cell membrane receptor. | Released | 02 Jun 2004 |
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| Bioavailability | Introduction to the concept of the bioavailability of drugs. | Released | 01 Apr 2004 |
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| Pressure | Introducing basic concepts of physical pressure, with particular reference to the role of pressure in healthcare situations. | Released | 02 Mar 2004 |
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| Half-life of drugs | To understand the half-life of drugs and its relationship with volume of distribution and clearance. | Released | 01 Mar 2004 |
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| Exploring the synapse | Describe the events during the transmission of an impulse across a synapse | Released | 01 Feb 2004 |
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| Understanding First Pass Metabolism | Description of first pass metabolism of orally-administered drugs in the liver and gastrointestinal tract | Released | 09 Jan 2004 |
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| 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. | Released | 09 Sep 2003 |
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| Levels of Measurement | To understand the different levels of measurement and the arithmetic operations that can be performed on them | Released | 01 Sep 2003 |
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| Power and sample size | An introduction to type I and type II errors with an interactive simulation to show the dynamic effects of variables on the power of the study | Released | 25 Jun 2003 |
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| Social class | Understanding the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of the healthcare problems attached | Released | 13 Sep 2002 |
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| The Black Report and Inequalities in Health | This RLO examines the findings and implications of the Black Repor. This was a 1980 document published by the the Department of Health and Social Security in the United Kingdom, which was the report of the expert committee into health inequality chaired by Sir Douglas Black. It was demonstrated that although overall health had improved since the introduction of the welfare state, there were widespread health inequalities. | Released | 29 Jul 2002 |
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| Parsons' Sick Role | The concept, sources, criticisms and strengths of the sick role as developed by Talcott Parsons. | Released | 29 Jul 2002 |
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| Relationship between incidence and prevalence | An explanation of the relationship between incidence and prevalence with an interactive example | Released | 19 Jul 2002 |
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| Birth Prevalence | This RLO explores the concept of birth prevalence, a special type of prevalence defined as the percentage of a given population who have a particular disease in a given population at a given point in time or over a particular time period. | Released | 10 Jun 2002 |
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| Prevalence | An explanation of prevalence as the measurement of a situation at one time | Released | 05 Jun 2002 |
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| Incidence | An explanation of incidence as the measurement of disease frequency | Released | 24 Apr 2002 |
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| Using a published questionnaire | Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of using published questionnaires, instead of developing a new questionnaire. | Discontinued | -- |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome | Explores the role of stress in triggering disease, detailing and critiquing the three phases of General Adaptation Syndrome as first proposed by Hans Selye. | Under development | -- |
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| Truth tables: an Introduction | An introduction to truth tables in formal logic - what they are, and how to construct them - and the concepts of conjunction, disjunction, and negation. The RLO also introduces the formal symbolism used in logic. | Under development | -- |
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| Safer injecting for illicit intravenous drug use | Describing the principles of safer intravenous drug use in the context of harm minimisation interventions | Concept | -- |
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| Size and scale | It is almost impossible to understand size without some form of reference such as a scale. This RLO will concentrate on linear scales. | Under development | -- |
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| Balancing fluid intake and output | This RLO is aimed at providing information in balancing fluids in children and infants. | Specification | -- |
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| Calculating medicines for children: converting values | Illustrating the conversion of metric values - between kg, grams, milligrams, micrograms and nanograms - to calculate dosage of medicine for children. | Concept | -- |
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| Chambers of the Heart | Describe the structure of the heart, valves and papillary muscles. | Concept | -- |
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| Circulation of blood through the Heart | Describe the major blood vessels of the heart and the circulation of blood through them. | Concept | -- |
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| Common molecular forms within the body | Examining the types and forms of active molecules in the body. | Concept | -- |
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| Correct and safe administering of medications | Concept | -- |
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| Critical appraisal of Randomised Control Trials | Specification | -- |
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| Displaying and outputting results of journal article searches | Practical example of displaying the results of a search of a journal article database | Specification | -- |
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| Finding and managing literature | Specification | -- |
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| Finding the full-text of a journal article | How to display full texts of articles recovered from a search of online journal article databases for nursing (eg CINAHL, BNI) | Specification | -- |
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| Intravenous injections | Describes the theory and practical skill of the administration of intravenous injections | Concept | -- |
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| Introduction to reliability in research | This introdution clarifies what reliability is, classifies it, and outlines potential threats to it. | Specification | -- |
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| Introduction to validity | This introdution clarifies what validity is, classifies it, and outlines potential threats to it. | Specification | -- |
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| Properties of Water | Examining the chemical properties of water, including hydrogen bonding, and water's biological properties in the body. | Concept | -- |
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| Protein synthesis | Concept | -- |
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| Using a Portfolio: a case study | Specification | -- |
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| What counts as quality Portfolio evidence? | Specification | -- |
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| Control of the Menstrual Cycle | This RLO outlines the hormonal control of the menstrual cycle. It focuses on the actions of follicle stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone, oestrogen and progesterone. | Specification | -- |
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| Interpreting Non Verbal Communication | This RLO looks at forms of non verbal communication and its importance to some individuals with learning disabilities. The package will enable the learner to engage with examples of non verbal communication through a series of interactive exercises | Concept | -- |
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| Improving Opportunities for Communication | This RLO focuses on some of the barriers to effective communication, focusing on individuals with learning disabilities. It looks at how these can be avoided or overcome by the health care professional | Concept | -- |
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| Body Mass Index | This RLO will explain the value of BMI as a health indicator, and show how it is calculated. | Concept | -- |
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| Ventrogluteal site | This rlo is part of the clinical skills injection mini-project. | Specification | -- |
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| Interpretation of blood gases | A new RLO on the interpretation of blood gases is being authored by Damion McCormick, Gill Langmack and Caroline Hendry as part of the Clinical Skills - Respiratory ULO series of learning objects. | Specification | -- |
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| Oxygenation | A new RLO on Oxygenation is being authored by Damion McCormick, Gill Langmack and Caroline Hendry as part of the Clinical Skills - Respiratory ULO series of learning objects. | Specification | -- |
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| Pulse oximetry | Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive method allowing the monitoring of the oxygenation of a patient's hemoglobin. | Concept | -- |
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| Taking patient history | A new RLO on Taking Patient history is being authored by Damion McCormick, Gill Langmack and Caroline Hendry as part of the Clinical Skills - Respiratory ULO series of learning objects. | RLO peer review | -- |
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| Coughing | A new RLO on Coughing is currently being authored by Damion McCormick, Gill Langmack and Caroline Hendry as part of the Clinical Skills - Respiratory ULO series of learning objects. | Specification | -- |
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| Breathing patterns | This RLO is part of a series of RLOs being developed by the Clinical skills respiratory group. | Specification | -- |
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| Respiratory rate | This RLO looks at how to measure the Respiratory rate in both babies and adults. | Specification | -- |
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| Incorporating exercise into your life | This learning object describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine to enjoy a healthier lifestyle. The first RLO in this series outlines the importance physical and mental health benefits to the individual of physical exercise. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project. | Specification | -- |
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| An introduction into drug targets and receptor types | This Umbrella Learning Object provides an introduction into drug targets and receptor types. | Under development | -- |
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| Cytotoxic Chemotherapy | This package is a supportive tool when completing the Mid Trent Cancer Network administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy education package. It can be useful to healthcare workers involved in the administration of chemotherapy. | Specification | -- |
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| Interpersonal skills for developing therapeutic relationships | This RLO considers how communication in nursing is different from other walks of life, recognises how damaging poor listening skills can be, and identifies the components of effective listening skills | Specification | -- |
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| Mentor sign-off process | This RLO is based around a video clip of a meeting between a sign-off mentor and a 'challenging' student. You're asked to reflect before the clip on what issues might arise, how you would handle them, and how you'd develop an action plan to resolve them. After viewing the clip you're asked for further reflection on formulating an action plan . | Specification | -- |
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| Male Reproductive anatomy | This Resource describes the functional anatomy of the male reproductive tract. The main element of the resource is a series of diagrams for the learner to label. Once a structure has been identified information regarding its function is displayed. | Specification peer review | -- |
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| Checking prescription charts in a secondary care setting | How to check prescription charts prior to drug administration, using critical thinking | Concept | -- |
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| Understanding Physiotherapy within the UK | This resource provides an overview of physiotherapy education and career pathways in the UK, including an introduction to the main physiotherapy roles. | Released | Pending review |
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| Hearing loss - A day in the life | This RLO looks at improving the understanding of the challenges encountered by patients with hearing loss and recognises how good communication with hearing loss patients has had a significant impact upon their experience of care. The resource helps to support and guide Nursing staff and health care workers in the provision of high quality patient care and communication and it is hoped that the learner will be inspired to find out more about hearing loss! | Under development | -- |
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| TALE: Understanding and communicating with people with different types of hearing loss | This resource presents a series of scenarios of people with different types of deafness in different healthcare settings. In each scenario you can watch the original scenario and then apply the TALE mode (Think, Act, Listen and Engage). the resource will to show how each scenario could be improved for the patient with hearing loss. | Under development | -- |
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| Manual therapy ‘mobilisation’ techniques of the shoulder girdle | Student created resource looking at manual therapy mobilisation techniques of the shoulder girdle | Under development | Pending review |
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| Getting Started with the Reusable Learning Object Specification System | RLO Specification System user guide intended to assist users of the system make the most of its features and capabilities. This record has been created to enable an RLO ID number to be linked to this resource. * Not intended to ever be a released RLO. | Specification | Pending review |
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| Exercise and Eating Disorders | This tool is designed to provide practical information to sports professionals around the concept of eating disorders and compulsive exercise, including ways to spot the signs, approach an initial conversation with someone, and ongoing signposting information. | Specification | -- |
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| My baby has PRS-What next? (old entry - please remove) | An on line resource created by parents for parents of infants with Pierre Robin Sequence and supported by cleft lip and palate professionals. The resource is targeted at the time of diagnosis and the first year of your baby's life. | Specification peer review | -- |
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| Introduction to screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol prevention in urgent and emergency care settings | This resource focuses on the use of screening, brief intervention and referral for treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol prevention in urgent and emergency care settings such as emergency departments, urgent care centres, minor injury units and walk-in centres. It is aimed at healthcare professionals working in these settings. | Specification | -- |
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| Writing for Publication | Concept | -- |
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| What is preterm birth? | To define preterm birth and to understand that the earlier a baby is born, the greater the risk of impact on development. | Under development | -- |
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| Educational outcomes following preterm birth | To understand how many children born preterm are at risk of low academic attainment and special educational needs and to identify which subjects preterm children are most likely to struggle with. | Under development | -- |
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| Cognitive and motor development following preterm birth | To understand that children born preterm may have difficulties with IQ, processing speed, working memory, and hand-eye coordination, and these difficulties may impact on their learning in the classroom. | Under development | -- |
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| Behavioural, social and emotional outcomes following preterm birth | To understand that children born preterm may be withdrawn, anxious, and inattentive and have difficulties developing relationships with their peers. These children may be overlooked in the classroom as they don’t tend to be disruptive or cause a problem for others. | Under development | -- |
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| How can education professionals support preterm children? | To understand what kind of strategies might be helpful for supporting children born preterm. Preterm birth is a risk factor for difficulties and an individual assessment is always necessary to provide appropriate support. | Under development | -- |
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| Wider Determinants of Health - SCALES | Specification | -- |
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