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22 Feb

Essential Clinical Skills eClass

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Our essential clinical skills training is designed to help people get into Care Assistant/ Support worker jobs within NHS and private hospitals, Nursing/Care homes, and GP surgeries. This training is recommended for people who wish to become hospital health care assistants but have yet to gain experience or have had a long career break.

Essential Skills Training Online Duration

This is an online training course with no time restriction. For clinical sessions and self-practice, we recommend purchasing basic clinical equipment such as a blood pressure machine, thermometer, finger oxygen saturation monitor and urinalysis strips.

Training content:

Clinical Skills:

  • Taking and recording Blood Pressure and Pulse
  • Taking and recording temperature
  • Urine/Stool collection and sampling
  • Respiratory rate
  • Glucose testing /finger stick
  • Taking weight and height and BMI calculation
  • Swab

Assessment

After completing all lessons, you will need to complete a 50-question online assessment test. You will receive your certificate as soon as you pass your assessment.

Taking and recording Blood Pressure and Pulse

Lessons

Definition & Units of Blood Pressure What is normal blood pressure in a healthy adult? How to measure blood pressure? Taking Blood Pressure Manually – Auscultatory Method Performance using automatic BP measuring method Pulse What is the normal Heart Rate (Pulse), Tachycardia and Bradycardia? Hypertension Blood pressure and pregnancy Pulse and pregnancy Video

Taking and recording temperature

Lessons

‘Normal’ Temperature Human body temperature ranges Thermoregulation Thermoregulation in hot conditions Thermoregulation in cold conditions Hypothermia Mild hypothermia Hyperthermia Pyrexia How to measure temperature Video

Urinalysis

Lessons

Urinalysis Urinalysis using test strips Procedure to correctly collect urine sample from your patient Urine collection from the catheter bag Urine Collection from the catheter bag: step-by-step procedure Urine collection from the catheter bag: step-by-step procedure – continued Do NOTs during urinalysis Filling-in patient chart What you will require for a urinalysis? How to perform a urinalysis test How to use strip kit correctly How to fill-in urinalysis chart: data What obtained results means? Video

Stool collection

Lessons

Human faeces Stool laboratory analysis Collecting sample Bristol stool chart

Respiration

This module of the essential clinical skills will cover respiration.

Lessons

Respiration Control centres How to count respiratory rate Bradypnoea Tachypnoea Apnoea Oxygen saturations

Swab

This module will cover the basics you require to know when taking a swab.

Lessons

Swab Diagnostic tests General guidelines

Assessment

In order to receive your certificate, it is essential for you to pass this assessment. Please note that the certificate will be available in the “My certificates” section of this website.

Lessons

Essential Clinical Skills Assessment