Poster for H818 Conference 2021
My project idea was to look at how feasible it is to try and teach clinical / practical skills to nurses and healthcare assistants using a video link rather than face to face teaching and demonstration.
The link for my multi-media poster is:https://youtu.be/99al-yGVl-Q
Abstract for poster presentation 15th February, 8.45-9pm London time (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-H818/ )
All registered healthcare professionals are required to maintain their skills and competency in order to maintain their registration with their Professional body, such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Medical Council (GMC), etc.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), who are the regulatory body for services that deliver health and social care in England and Wales and Skills for Care (a registered charity who work as a delivery partner with the Department of Health) have commented that training may be delayed due to the prioritising of care delivery, however, providers (of care) should still “make every effort to ensure that their staff are competent, confident and skilled in providing safe care” (Skills for Care, 2021). They also recommend that face to face training is stopped during the current lockdown; this has been their recommendation since March 2020.
This leaves a dilemma for those who deliver and require clinical and practical training; how can you teach someone to perform a practical task, that may have severe consequences for a patient if not done correctly, via a virtual medium.
The aim of the project is to develop a method where we can safely and effectively deliver invasive, clinical skills training virtually, and remain cost effective in the health and social care industry.
The presentation will consider reasons for choosing this subject, and a brief overview of the current situation in the health and social care training industry; methods used so far, trainer and learner feedback, compared to feedback from more traditional presentation methods. Consideration will be given to use of open access online modules as an additional resource to the learners and the impact of this on the learner’s experience. As the project develops, the methods used for remote delivery will expand from using simulation mannikins to Artifical Intelligence simulation, an outline of how we see this working will conclude the presentation.
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References:
NMC (2021), Covid-19 and Revalidation [Online] https://www.nmc.org.uk/covid19-revalidation (last accessed 23/1/21)
Skills for Care (2021) Covid-19, Essential Guidelines [Online] Available at https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About/News/COVID-19-Essential-training.aspx (last accessed 23/1/21)
Conference presentation at 8.45-9pm, GMT, 15th February at (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-H818/ )
Comments
Conference questions
Hi Alex
Your questions from the conference are below. Feel free to respond as you wish.
Best wishes
Simon
How did you decide for course materials to be open access?
You said not all feedback from Facebook groups was positive. What feedback did you receive and how did you use it?
How do we give learners a safe environment to practice and get feedback. Have you found anything on how to give feedback on clinical skills? We have been thinking about getting learners to send us videos of themselves undertaking physical assessments, but this is challenging due to quality of video etc.
It mnust be diffiuclt to provide ambulance emrgency training - aqre you iaware of how this can be done?
how do you correct a mistake someone makes in a practical session
Are the recordings for assessment possible future resources for learning. Allowing the learner to review and make direct comparison with videos by others.
is there an issue with providing materials to private providers if they 'for profit' vs not for profit?
This is something we are thinking of doing as well. Getting the learners to critique a video of someone doing a physical examination
You might get round this by creating a suite of videos that use actors recreating assessments and common mistakes, for example?