Prerequisites: Nil
Time: 1 hour
This training is also a good refresher session for Nurses and Allied Professionals who have attended the Smokefree Best Practice session more than a year or so ago.
By attending this course registered Health Professionals can:
- Provide smoking cessation advice and support reliably and repeatedly across the health sector.
- Support patients who are experiencing nicotine withdrawal and/or want to stop smoking.
- Become accredited to chart NRT for inpatients, as per Te Whatu Ora Waitematā's Standing Orders for NRT.
- Develop a clear understanding of why it is important for us to ask 15 yrs and above of their smoking status, offer advice and support if currently smoking.
- Be informed of the option of stop smoking medications (subsidised/non-subsidised) available to offer patients and their whanau.
- Be informed of the FREE option of support available to offer patients and their whanau and the Smokefree referral process.
Intended audience: All Waitemata Social Work and Key Worker staff
Prerequisites: Complete the e-learning module Course: Adult Safeguarding
Duration: 3 hours
Method: face-to-face
About this course:
The overall aim of this course is to bring awareness to Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand social work/key workers staff about their role in relation to safeguarding adults at risk.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Locate the Vulnerable Adults Policy
- Identify situations of abuse and neglect
- Apply the basics of best practice safeguarding response
- Understand the role of VARG and SAFA Coordinator
Intended audience: Medical Interns, RMOs, Pharmacy Interns
This course has been developed to help you to prepare an accurate and timely discharge summary. The discharge summary contains crucial information for the patient and their primary care providers. It is important that it is correct, clearly written and completed on time.
Intended audience: Those caring for people at risk of delirium, dementia or depression
This course has been developed to help you identify risk factors for delirium, dementia and depression, particularly in older adults, and how to manage these issues if they arise.
Intended audience: All health professionals
Course contact: Maria Lafaele
Pregnancy increases a woman’s perception of risk, triggering a strong emotional response, and making her more likely to respond to prompts to stop smoking. It is described as a window of opportunity to promote stopping smoking.
This course will take you through a series of scenarios to practice effective conversations with women who smoke in pregnancy and post-partum.
In this course, you will learn to
- discuss stopping smoking with the women you work with
- identify barriers to stopping smoking
- pick up conversational cues and turn them into opportunities to discuss stopping smoking
- provide information to increase the use of Stop Smoking Services
- practice conversations in complex situations and get some instant pointers on conversation skills, messages and how to handle myths and facts about smoking during pregnancy and post partum
Participants: This course is suitable for all Waitemata DHB Staff
Duration: 30 minutes online
About this course
This course is for all Waitemata DHB staff. It looks at what is required to make health easy to understand and the role of the health system to achieve this. This course covers Improving Health Literacy.
This module has been produced by NDSA and is for all staff working in the mental health service older adult setting. This is based on the 7 real skills of Lets Get Real.
A Nurse Educator or Coach is required to support this process.
