Webinars
Register for our free webinars which showcase the latest ideas and insights from industry experts. Long-term care professionals can also benefit from our bespoke learning live sessions tailored to the care home environment.
Upcoming webinars
Pressure ulcers – definition, assessment, prevention and treatment
Pressure ulcers are a painful, debilitating condition that can, largely, be prevented. Seen as a measure of harm by NHS England/Improvement and reportable to the CQC in care home settings, understanding how best to protect those within your care from developing a pressure ulcer is an important aspect of care delivery.
Prevention of pressure ulcers is however not always easy and, in some cases, not possible. Understanding how they develop, how to recognise those at risk, how to prevent them and what to do when they do occur is vital knowledge for anyone involved in the care of those vulnerable to pressure ulcers.
Staff with different skill sets can work their way through the whole programme, or they can choose individual modules.
Learning Outcomes
- To understand how pressure causes skin damage
- To understand the cascade of events that lead to pressure damage.
- To recognise the primary factors that can increase risk of pressure ulcer development
- To understand other factors that might impact further on the risk
- To understand the place and relevance of risk assessment tools and why they score as they do
- To understand the aSSKINg bundle and how this supports the most important aspects of pressure ulcer prevention
- To gain deeper insight into each aspect of aSSKINg, what the key aspects of care within each element of the bundle are and the importance of documentation
- To recognise the early warning signs of pressure damage & what actions must be taken immediately
- To gain insight into the main aspects of care in the treatment of pressure ulcers (including categorisation)
- To understand your role in the treatment of pressure ulcers
- To gain insight into the different dressings that might be used and why
- To understand wound management with regard to pressure ulcers, including wound assessment and management decision-making
- To understand some of the dressings that may be used in the management of pressure ulcers
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Tissue Viability - What OTs need to know and how they can help
This 4-part webinar series explores the complexities of preventing and managing pressure ulcers in community settings, covering topics such as skin care, patient decision-making and the critical roles of nutrition, hydration and posture.
Learning Outcomes
- To understand why good skin care is essential
- To understand what leads to vulnerable skin and early warning signs
- Pressure and posture – the link between them
- Issues with cushions on top of chairs
- The big debate - To stay in bed or not to stay in bed?
- To understand the cascade of events that lead to pressure damage
- Root cause analysis process
- To understand the categories of pressure ulcers
- To recognise the key primary factors that can increase the risk of pressure ulcer development
- To understand the place and relevance of risk assessment tools and why they score as they do
- To understand why people may make decisions about their care that healthcare professionals find challenging
- What you can do when a person decides not to adhere to suggested care interventions
- To have an understanding of prevention of pressure ulcers using the aSSKINg bundle
- To gain more in depth understanding of how nutrition plays an important part in the viability of tissue
- To understand how nutrition helps with healing wounds and how to do this in practice
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Introducing the Accora bed range- how can they reduce falls and promote independence?
Accora have a range of beds to promote independence and reduce risks in the community to meet the needs of fallers, the elderly, cognitively impaired and smaller people - when it comes to choosing the right bed, improving the safety of patients and staff, and enhancing clinical outcomes are of paramount importance.
Learning Outcomes
- To improve knowledge of the functions and features of the Accora bed range - to include FloorBed, CommunityBed and JuniorBeds
- To discuss the clinical benefits of the FloorBed and CommunityBed
- To find out how the autoregression technology reduces shear forces
- To link case study evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of these products
- Live demonstration of the FloorBed, CommunityBed and Junior FloorBed
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Fatigue Management for Occupational Therapists
In this 2-part webinar, participants will gain insight into the role of Occupational Therapy (OT) in managing fatigue.
Learning Outcomes
- Gain an insight into the role of Occupational Therapy (OT) in fatigue management
- Be able to identify assessments that can support OT intervention in clinical populations that experience fatigue
- Identify the “4Ps” of energy conservation
- Understand the role of rest and sleep in fatigue management
- Become aware of “red flags” requiring further investigation, and why certain clinical populations require particular approaches
- Understand pacing approaches to avoid post-exertional malaise
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Introducing the Accora chair range - Which chair should I choose?
This session will provide an overview of the Accora chair range and how they have been designed to promote independence. There are several factors to consider to ensure clinical outcomes are met when it comes to choosing the right chair for a service user, the overview of our products covered in this webinar will aim to assist in choosing the appropriate chair for your service users needs in relation to size, pressure and postural issues.
Learning Outcomes
- To improve knowledge of the functions and features of the Accora chair range - to include Configura Lite 2, Porter, Comfort, Advance and Bariatric chairs.
- To outline important factors which affect chair selection, such as transfer method, size, pressure and posture.
- To discuss the clinical benefits of the Chair range in relation to specific client groups.
- Live demonstration of the Accora Chair range.
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Bed standards and side rail provision – post the deadline
Following the recent popular webinar which addressed the MHRA alert on bed rails and we have decided to focus on how areas are implementing the actions set out in the National Safety Patient Alert.
Based on the feedback from the previous session we will concentrate on risk assessment around bed rails, bed levers and turning devices mentioned in the guidance.
Learning Outcomes
- To recap of the MHRA guidance and the National Patient Safety Alert.
- To gain an idea of how different areas are implementing the actions outlined in the guidance.
- To discuss what needs to be included in a risk assessment for bed rails and bed lever
- Introduction to the features, functions, and accessories of Accora’s JuniorBeds
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