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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

Our courses

We run a programme of courses throughout the year as well as delivering bespoke training packages.

 

Undergraduate courses

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care, cancer care, elderly medicine, cardio respiratory, MSK, surgical general medicine.

Undergraduate training blocks:

  • To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ward or ED setting
  • To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
  • To enable staff to raise concerns, handover and challenge situations using tools in a safe environment
  • To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work

Nurse’s role:

  • Reassure patient
  • Assist the doctors with treatment

Faculty’s role:

  • Observe best practice
  • Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management, leadership and humans factors - group work on PACE

Medical student’s role:

  • History taking, A-E assessment
  • Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
  • Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

Simulation training is specific to each clinical block covering history taking, assessment and diagnosis of each condition incorporating both medicine and human factors and non-technical skills.

 

Training blocks:

  • surgical
  • general
  • musculoskeletal
  • cardio respiratory
  • cancer care
  • acute care
  • elderly care

Each block complete skills role specific to their block.

  • catheterisation
  • cannulation
  • IV study
  • intravenous fluids setting up and prescribing
  • insulin sliding scale
  • venepuncture
  • oxygen therapy
  • airway management
  • blood transfusion
  • A-E assessment
  • performing an ECG and recognition
  • arterial blood gas sampling and analysis

 

Scenarios covered include:

  • chest pain
  • anaphylaxis
  • status epilepticus
  • DKA
  • hypoglycemia
  • GI bleed
  • pneumonia
  • post-surgical complications (breakdown of anastomosis, GI bleed, cholecystitis)
  • UTI sepsis
  • head injury
  • overdose
  • asthma
  • PPH
  • transfusion reaction
  • transfusion overload
  • breaking bad news
  • assessment and diagnosis of falls patient
  • communication and history taking with patients and relatives/carers
  • PE
  • neonatal and paediactric

All undergraduates are encouraged to participate in postgraduate simulation multidisciplinary team training days within their block placement.

 

Postgraduate courses

Foundation Year Trainees (FY1 and FY2)

Course lead: Dr N Hames

To book, go through intrepid course manager

 

Core medical trainee (CMT) advanced simulation course 

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment in which to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care and emergency scenarios:

  • To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ED setting
  • To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
  • To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work.
  • CT 2 to lead the team in management of 2 simulated acutely unwell patients whilst being distracted with bleeps from junior doctors requiring support on the ward and GP referrals.

Doctor’s role:

  • Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
  • Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

Faculty’s role:

  • Observe best practice
  • Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management and humans factors


Nurse’s role:

Assist the doctors in history taking

Observations (HCA)

Medications

Treatment

Life support

Reassure the patient and relatives

 

Course lead Dr F Poyner

To book, contact Denise Swift

 

Core medical trainee (CMT) CT1 and CT2 clinical skills course

  • USS chest drain - LP
  • USS CVC - Abdominal paracentesis
  • Cardioversion and pacing - NG

 

To book, email Gemma Denny

 

Higher Specialist Trainee (HST) course

Course lead Dr F Poyner link to

To book, email Gemma Denny

 

MDT paediatric regional teaching course

 

This training programme aims to provide a safe learning environment in which to experience a series of simulated clinical challenges designed around acute care of paediactric scenarios:

  • To consider individual, team, and organisational factors that might enhance or impede optimal, safe patient care in the ED and paediatric ward setting
  • To raise your awareness of roles and responsibilities, skills and contributions of other members of the multi-professional team
  • To consider how relevant national or local policies and procedures contribute to risk management and patient safety where you work.
  • Team leader and team member roles within the paediactric team.

 

Doctor’s role

  • Assess, diagnose and treat a variety of acute clinical conditions
  • Communicate with/refer to senior staff as appropriate

 

Faculty’s role

  • Observe best practice
  • Facilitate debrief with video play back focusing on clinical management and humans factors, using headlines and PACE tools 

Nurse’s role

  • Assist the doctors in history taking
  • Observations (HCA)
  • Medications
  • Treatment
  • Life support
  • Reassure the patient and relatives

 

Lead Dr C Chadwick

To book, email Gemma Denny

 

Quality Improvement project

Information to follow

Simulation faculty programme

This training programme aims to provide faculty with updates on new concepts in simulation training. It provides material for faculty to use for their own development, material to use in simulation training sessions and an opportunity for dialogue and exchange within the faculty.  

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The training topics are:

  • debriefing
  • simulation as a technique
  • theories of action
  • double lop learning
  • identifying good debriefing
  • structure of a good debrief
  • advocacy inquiry
  • Human factors
  • understanding cognitive and bias headlining
  • assertiveness
  • leader empowerment
  • high pressure team working.

All simulation faculty complete every 3 years.

Participant’s role:

  • To design a scenario
  • Observe the scenario
  • Debrief the scenario

 

Annual Peer reviews

All simulation faculty are recorded in each session and then peer reviewed annually by our simulation manager

 

Train the trainer and debriefing skills

Course leads Dr N Hames and Vicky Garrod

To book, email Gemma Denny

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