Education and training

Dates:

• 4 March 2022 (8.30am-5.30pm) – fully booked
• 24 June 2022 (8.30am-5.30pm) – fully booked (cancelled due to train strike)
• 21 October (8.30am-5.30pm) – open for booking

For details on how to apply please contact annette.toner@gstt.nhs.uk

For paediatric nurses who want to lead the team responsible for transporting children for intensive care.

The course takes two years to complete and study days are held at Evelina London.

To be eligible you must:

• be a registered paediatric nurse
• have a minimum of three years’ experience in a children’s intensive care unit
• have a minimum of two years’ experience in emergency retrievals.

To register or to find out more, please email shelley.riphagen@gstt.nhs.uk.

On 1 July 2021, Sarah Hardwick and Sasha Herring, both STRS retrieval nurse practitioners (RNP), launched a new and exciting education platform for nurses within the South Thames region, “STRS Nursing Outreach Programme.” 

“As a service we recognise that study leave allowances throughout the region are limited. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid expansion of virtual medicine – including medical education. The RNP team have decided to embrace this change – we hope that an online format will make STRS nursing outreach education more flexible and readily accessible to staff across the region.

The programme is in its infancy and new material is constantly being added. 

Your education link nurses will be sent details on how to access the programme.

Please log in and let us know other topics that you would like the RNP team to focus on.”

What is it?

Online learning resource for nuring in South Thames DGHs. The aim is to help you develop the skills needed to identify and stabilise the critically unwell child in your hospital.

How does it work?

Login from work or home useing your hospital's individual login, work throuhg the material and submit an evaluation form. Your certicate will be emailed to you for your CPD records.

Content includes
Presentations, printable resources, interactive learning packages and video demonstrations of skills. Topics covered include stabilisation prior to transport, managing the collapsed neonate, tracheostomy skills, interpreting CXRs, introduction to blood gases and much more.

For more information, contact your local nursing and education team, or email sasha.herring@gstt.nhs.uk.

For nurses and doctors who want a training session tailored to their development needs.

We can come to your hospital with our specialised simulation equipment to provide guidance on a particular paediatric condition.

Conditions covered in recent study days have included:

• septic shock

• supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)

• neurosurgical emergency.

If you would like us to arrange a study day for you and your team or to find out more, please email shelley.riphagen@gstt.nhs.uk.