NAPICU BESPOKE TRAINING COURSE

The session will help clinicians to participate and learn the considerations of the risk of Covid19 in medicines management including stock shortages solutions and alternatives. Appropriately qualified and senior medical staff should lead ongoing formulation of a pharmacological treatment plan. This should occur with input from patients and the MDT.

(1.5 Hours)

The provision of a degree of security is one of the primary functions of the PICU. This needs to be counterbalanced with the need for a therapeutic clinical environment. The training session will offer clinicians the opportunity to review their model of security and how it can be integrated with dynamic risk assessment and management processes during covid19 focussing on Physical security, Procedural security and Relational security

(2 Hours)

Management and leadership within a PICU are essential and symbiotic components in the establishment of the care ethos which the PICU holds. They are also fundamentally how this ethos is maintained within the clinical environment and therefore of great importance in the delivery of consistent and high-quality care. Aspects of management and leadership which need to be specifically considered in relation to PICU are discussed in this chapter.

(2 Hours)

The training encourages participants to reflect on internal obstacles to values-based behaviour, particularly thoughts, feelings, sensations and urges that can ‘hijack’ behaviour. A skill cultivated across the session is the ability to notice, in daily life, when one is behaving in a way that is consistent with one’s values and when not (for example, when one’s actions are being controlled by thoughts, emotions or reactions to others that are not value-consistent).

(1.5 Hours)

This session will review the impact of Covid19 on how clinicians use de-escalation techniques, PICU extra care areas, restraint and seclusion.

(2 Hours)

This Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers aims to break the stigma surrounding mental-ill health in the care services. The training also explores how to be helpful to someone experiencing a mental illness, while looking after your own health and wellbeing. It is an opportunity to develop practical skills in the areas of communication, problem solving and boundary setting, and how to talk to mental health professionals in PICUs and LSUs.

(1.5 Hours)

Poor mental health is now the number one reason for employee’s absence from work, with at least one in six workers experiencing common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression in any given week. NAPICU aims to enhance workplace wellbeing by raising awareness, sharing practical strategies and increasing confidence to support other healthcare colleagues.

(2 Hours)

The session will focus on the management of physical health in PICUs. The links between mental illness and poor physical health (e.g. cardiovascular disease and cancer) are well established and services should ensure that patients are routinely offered a full assessment of both physical and mental health needs.

(1.5 Hours)

Our approach to the staff health and wellbeing PICUs is designed to support general physical wellbeing, collective psychological resilience within mental health services and the ability of staff to continue to work in high functioning teams.

(2 Hours)

This course is aimed at anyone working directly with patients on the wards, and that have supervision responsibilities for other staff members.  The course will help participants develop skills in supervision of their staff members and provide a systemic model of supervision practice.  The course will enhance supervision skills so they can help their staff members work more effectively with clients.  It will build compassion and skills of resilience in working with challenging patients. 

(2 Hours)

This course is designed for anyone working on a ward. The course will help participants think about how to work more effectively with other professionals within the team.   The course provides a systemic framework to think about how different teams work together.  The course will look at skills in enhancing more collaborative team work and understanding the complexities of the staff dynamics.  Skills around collaboration and appreciative inquiry will be explained to facilitate enhanced communication. 

(2 Hours)

This course is designed to help frontline staff work more effectively with complex adolescents.  The course will look at some of the recent theory around trauma and attachment in adolescents.  In addition systemic questioning skills will be demonstrated to show how they can be used to work more effectively with adolescents.  Feedback and collaborative practice will be used to help enhance the work.

(2 Hours)

This course aims to help the staff team think about the family of the adolescent.  The course will look at developing skills in genograms and thinking more widely about the systems around the adolescents.  Skills in genograms and eco maps with be taught to the worker to develop frontline approaches in working with adolescents. 

(2 Hours)