This course is for all nurses and allied health to complete after attending a 1-hour Smokefree Best Practice session with Living Smokefree Service which is held monthly in Ko Awatea. 

Enrolment to the 1-hour Smokefree Best Practice session is via Kiosk for Counties and on Ko Awatea LEARN for Waitematā.

Enrolment key to access the elearning in KA Learn will be given during the Smokefree Best Practice session. Completion of the e learning will authorise nurses and allied  health to chart NRT for patients on MedChart or National Medication Chart.

Key Contact: 

Counties: Vivian De La Rama Vivian.DeLaRama@middlemore.co.nz

Waitematā: Mick Chan mikhtam.chan@waitematadhb.govt.nz

Audience Primary:
All qualified Ward 64 nurses

Secondary:
All qualified student Radiation Therapists, all qualified Radiation Oncology Physicists and the Physics Registrars.

Counties Manukau  aims to invest in employee training to ensure our professionals provide a safe, healthy and quality healthcare services to our patients, users of services and our communities. All employees must be trained appropriately to ensure they have the correct knowledge and experience to avoid harm to the employee or other people in the workplace. Counties Manukau also has a responsibility to ensure the safe provision of health and disability services to the public, while ensuring a highly skilled workforce aligned with the organisation's vision and values.

This portal contains all of the topics available in Ko Awatea LEARN that ALL staff need to complete. 

Contact your manager for Service Specific training.

This is a directory page, which will link through to relevant courses and materials related to the page topic.

"Nursing has a social mandate to enhance the delivery of health and disability services to Māori and achieve positive health outcomes and health gains"
Nursing Council of New Zealand (2011)

How do nurses fulfil the mandate above, what is the relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, what does it mean to apply its principles in practice and what does competence look like? More importantly, why in their own country, do Māori experience the worst health outcomes in every way health is measured? 

With a focus on practical application, the purpose of this course is to interpret the Nursing Council's expectations related to Maori health and Te Tiriti of Waitangi, with the overall aim that nurses identify and maximise the opportunities that present in their everyday practice to improve Maori healthcare experience and health outcomes.

Learning objectives:

• Establish understanding of Māori as the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Examine the origin of Maori health inequities and the ongoing factors that maintain them
• Explore and interpret Nursing Council expectations
• Reflect on current practice and identify own potential to enhance the achievement of positive healthcare and equitable health outcomes for Maori

The assessments of this course are formative: 

• Online quiz before Study Day 1
• Written reflection of new insights and understanding and implications for own practice

The expectations of this course are that you will:

• attend 2 facilitated study days (12 hours)
• complete online readings and activities (4 hours)
• share examples from own nursing practice in class

About: This is a workshop on cultural safety in women’s health
Mā wai tēnei / Who is this for: Employed Midwives, Self Employed Midwives and Nurses working in Women’s Health
Frequency: Once
Takawā / Time: 8 hours
Course contact: Priya Pillay

About:Various medical conditions in pregnancy, labour , post natal and the effect of these conditions on mothers and babies
Mā wai tēnei / Who is this for: Employed Midwives, Self Employed Midwives and Nurses working in Women’s Health
Frequency: Once 
Takawā / Time: 8 hours
Course contact: Priya Pillay

About: This aim of this workshop is to give a good overview of mental health conditions in pregnancy and during childbirth and post-partum. How to manage these conditions including appropriate referral to Maternal mental health, GP’s and other support organisation's in the community.
Mā wai tēnei / Who is this for:Employed Midwives, Self Employed Midwives and RN’s in Women’s Health
Frequency: Once
Takawā / Time: 8 hours
Course contact: Priya Pillay

Target audience: Maternity Scheduler
Time allocation: approx. 15 min.
Completion criteria: complete ALL mandatory activities (refer to Course Completion Status block on the right)
Contact: Email us MCIS@adhb.govt.nz

Pathway 1B is for Clinical Support Staff who need basic life support skills

Objectives:  

• How to call for help when paced with patient concern  
• Recognise clinical deterioration 
• Escalate in response to deterioration 
• Commence basic life support 

Pathway 2B is for midwives and nurses who work in non MEWS clinical areas such as community and outpatient clinics.

Objectives:

• to know which vital signs to measure
• recognise clinical deterioration
• monitor trends in patient condition
• escalate in response to deterioration
• implement basic initial treatments as indicated

Pathway 3 is for house officers, senior midwives and nurses who may be working in clinical leadership roles.

Objectives:

• to recognise, assess and escalate in response to deterioration
• implement basic initial treatments
• assist with advanced resuscitation management

Pathway 5 is for PaR team members, ICU, ED, Anaesthesia SMOs or Registrars, and clinicians that carry a MET locator

Objectives:

• to understand how the Early Warning Score and Maternity Early Warning Score system works
• understand how shared goals of care conversations should be used and conducted
• be able to lead advanced resuscitation events using knowledge of current advanced life support algorithms

This course provides an introduction to using the maternity vital signs chart and early warning score (MEWS).

**This course is for Counties Manukau employees only**

MedChart is the electronic prescribing and administration software that has been rolled out across CM Health. Access to this program is only given after training has been completed to ensure that it is used safely and correctly. This e-learning course will provide you with a basic overview of the most commonly used functions Anaesthetists use when prescribing and administering medications.

Key Contact: Marie Lewis

This course provides the essential information to manage diabetes patients in accordance to current evidence based

recommendations and guidelines. It will help improve the participant's understanding regarding managing glycaemic control and reducing risk of complications in those with diabetes. 

Target Audience: New grads or student dietitians with limited knowledge on diabetes management

Assessment: Participants are required to demonstrate the ability to understand the issues associated with the medical nutrition management of those with diabetes.

Whakaminenga / Who is this for: Waitematā Proficient & Expert Nurses
Prerequisites: none
Takawā | Time: 8 hours

Course contact: Shalini Prasad

Frequency: This course can be completed every 2 years 
About: Enhance leadership skills, knowledge and attributes of senior ward nurses.

These competency assessments are only for Waitemata DHB staff to complete as part of our medication administration competency assessment process.

Please do NOT enrol in these tests if this process does not apply to you.