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Te Tiriti o Waitangi - Ngā Paerewa

Violence Intervention Programme Pre-training Module

Theatre Nursing - An Introduction

This course is designed to support new and orientating staff to the nursing theatre environment. 

Topics include:

  • scrub and circulating nursing roles in theatre
  • aseptic technique, the surgical hand scrub and appropriate surgical attire alongside gowning and gloving 
  • surgical count
  • safe sharps handling.

Total PD hours : 1



TrendCare Initial User for NMH

This course is appropriate for new staff who will be using TrendCare and existing staff who wish to update their knowledge.

This course covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to TrendCare
  • TrendCare Processes
  • Inpatient Shift Data/ Acuity Screen /  Diets
  • Review of Indicators
This course is equivalent to 1 hour of Professional Development time.



Tracheostomy Care

This eLearning course offers refresher information about tracheostomy management.
TrendCare for Allied Health Users

This course is appropriate for new allied health staff and students who will be using Trendcare, and existing staff who wish to refresh their knowledge.

The Trendcare course covers the following topics

    1. Introduction to TrendCare
    2. Accessing TrendCare
    3. Entering into the Intervention Register
    4. Capturing Unmet Need
    5. Patient Handover Sheets
    6. Accessing Reports
    7. Using the Allocate Staff screen

The course also provides a Trendcare Training Resource which contains the course content and can be printed for use before or after completing the course.

This course is equivalent to 1 hour of Professional Development time.
Winscribe Text - How to Create New Recipients

This course explains Nelson Marlborough Health business rules for setting up recipients to ensure that correspondence is sent to the correct recipient in a timely fashion.

All transcriptionists must complete this training prior to creating new recipients in Winscribe Text. 


Winscribe Text - IDF Approval Process

This process applies to any Secretary / Transcriptionist in NMDHB that will be sending a letter, from a Clinician, on behalf of a patient to another DHB.

This course will show you how to get IDF Approval (or not) onto the letter in Winscribe Text. 

It will take approximately 10 mins to complete.

Wound Care

Wounds affect a great number of the patients that enter the services provided by Nelson Marlborough Health therefore it is important that all health care professionals maintain a basic level of knowledge of wound care to aid in their assessment and treatment of wounds. To facilitate this distribution of knowledge it has been made a mandatory  prerequisite to the wound care study day.

This course is worth 3 hours of Professional Development time.