Clinical Updates

The Toolkit for Nurses in Independent Schools

This practical course is led by an experienced and well-regarded Respiratory Specialist Nurse. Colleagues attending will be able to update their asthma management skills, enabling them to offer support that fully complies with all the latest advice and guidance.
Key learning objectives include:

• How to make an accurate asthma diagnosis in children and teenagers
• Understanding the latest BTS stepwise asthma management guidelines
• Managing worsening symptoms and asthma attacks
• Inhaler devices and techniques – latest updates and guidance
• Successful asthma self-management plans for teenagers

Offering Safe, Confident, Competent Support to Pupils

This engaging training course is packed with practical information to enable Nurses to swiftly update their understanding of how to manage commonly presenting minor injuries. Colleagues attending will be guided through the latest guidelines and current best practice advice, and the day is specifically aimed at Nurses working in a school environment.
​Key learning objectives include:​

• Identifying, assessing and managing a range of common injuries
• Ensuring effective clinical history taking
• Dealing with head, facial, and musculoskeletal injuries
• Watching out for red flag symptoms during assessment
• Building confidence when deciding whether, and when, to send a pupil to A&E
• Managing cuts, bruises and burns

This training course is packed with practical information to allow Nurses to accurately assess students with a variety of presenting ENT and eye issues. Colleagues attending will be guided through current best practice advice, including the very latest thinking on referral thresholds, allowing them to deliver confident and competent support to students in their care.
Key learning objectives include:

• How to carry out ENT examinations
• Treatment for common ENT issues
• Assessing and managing acute ENT conditions
• How to carry out a basic eye examination
• Dealing with eye emergencies and acute conditions
• Red flags and required action for ENT and eye issues
• Understanding current thresholds for onward referral

Successful Management, Effective Support and Up-to-date Treatment

This practical course allows participants to swiftly improve skills and confidence enabling them to offer highly effective and up-to-date sports injury provision within their school.
​Key learning objectives include:

• Accurately assessing and grading musculoskeletal and soft tissue injuries
• Recognising warning signs of more sinister conditions
• Assessing thresholds for referral and further investigation
• Successfully managing soft tissue injuries
• Improving understanding of issues around anatomical position and planes and axis of movement and their relevance to injury and function
• Ensuring you have the correct pitch-side equipment
• Taping introduction principles and practical

Essential Assessment and Treatment Skills for Independent School Nurses

This training course allows Nurses to accurately assess students with a variety of presenting complaints, and explains how to spot red flags. Colleagues attending will be guided through the latest guidelines and current best practice advice on managing a wide range of illnesses. The day is specifically aimed at Nurses working with students in a school environment..
​Key learning objectives include:

• How to identify and assess a range of common minor illnesses in children and teenagers
• Effective clinical history-taking
• Assessing the urgency of each case
• Management of respiratory and abdominal presentations
• Dealing with ENT and eye problems
• Managing headache, migraine and skin presentations
• Spotting when something is potentially more sinister

Offering effective, accessible, up-to-date provision, based on current best practice

This interactive course has been designed to rapidly update participants’ skills, and equip school nursing teams with the latest advice, key skills and examples of best practice relating to students’ sexual health.
​Key learning objectives include:

• Dealing with issues of consent, confidentiality and safeguarding
• Contraception overview – including latest guidance about emergency contraception
• SAIs and national screening programmes
• National frameworks and legislation that impacts on students’ sexual health
• HIV – latest updates
• Setting up accessible school-based sexual health clinics
• Promoting the sexual health of your pupils – meeting the requirements of your role
• Abortion, FGM, pupil sexuality and child sexual exploitation – understanding recent advice and guidance

This interactive course allows colleagues to update their Diabetes management skills, enabling them to play an effective part in the multi-disciplinary team that is required for the successful day-to-day support of students with Diabetes.
The course is led by a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Paediatric Diabetes and a Senior Specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian.
​Key learning objectives include:

• Understanding Type 1 and 2 Diabetes
• Practical ways to encourage students to actively manage insulin delivery, including insulin pump therapy
• Identifying and effectively managing the short term complications of Diabetes – hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia
• The importance of screening to reduce the risk of long term complications
• Understanding the psycho-social implications for students living with Diabetes
• Effective blood glucose monitoring
• Understanding ‘carbohydrate counting’
• Helping young people manage their Diabetes around alcohol, exams, sport and travel
• Managing Type 2 Diabetes in young people
• Latest research and useful resources

This course provides school nursing teams with essential travel health training.
​Key learning objectives include:

• Knowing which vaccinations are required and/or recommended
• Identifying and managing risks and hazards
• Vaccine administration – a step by step guide
• Vaccination for vector-borne diseases, including an in-depth look at malaria
• Rabies – essential knowledge and recent developments
• Essential travel health updates for school Nurses

Essential Knowledge, Core Skills and Latest Changes

This one-day course provides essential childhood and adult immunisation update training, aimed at clinicians who provide the full range of immunisations covered in the routine UK schedules for children and adults. The training is an interactive update, allowing participants to check their understanding of each session before moving on. It will provide clinicians with the latest guidance on national immunisation programmes and demonstrate the resources available to manage common incidents and educate patients.

N.B: Please note that specific training in Basic Life Support and anaphylaxis recognition and management should also be undertaken annually or as per employer’s stipulations. Anaphylaxis is not covered in this update training.  Key learning objectives include:

• Revision of the immune system and how vaccines work
• Exploring current issues in immunisation
• Any changes to vaccine recommendations or national policy
• Updates on vaccine ordering, storage and administration
• Review of current practice, recent vaccine incidents and identification of areas for improvement
• Q&A session for problems encountered in practice

This training guides Nurses through the latest guidelines and current advice relating to the key clinical aspects of their role. The training also explains how to significantly reduce time spent on record-keeping, paperwork, policy-writing and healthcare plans. The course is suitable for colleagues working in Day and Boarding settings in both Junior and Senior schools.  We would recommend this course for Nurses new to their role in addition to established staff who are yet to attend. 

Key learning objectives include:

• Applying the Code of Practice to your everyday work
• Record-keeping and paperwork – saving time by knowing what’s essential and what’s not
• Complying with approved healthcare procedures in Junior and Senior schools
• Healthcare plans – useful tricks to save time
• Vaccination schedules – UK, foreign
• Understanding the UK vaccination schedule from birth to 18, and dealing with vaccination issues
• School inspections – how to prepare using our checklist
• Writing policies, including time-saving templates to use in your school
• Keeping up to date with information from parents
• Using clinical supervision and forums to support your revalidation