BFHI accreditation is an MoH requirement for all facilities providing maternity services in New Zealand. This educational package supports all new and existing staff to meet their education requirements for BFHI. This orientation package ensures orientation to the facility, orientation to our breastfeeding policy and helps to ensure consistent knowledge and advice is shared to support mothers to feed their babies.
Targeted Learners:
- All new staff employed within the maternity system.
- Existing staff to ensure clinical standards are being met.
Learning Objectives:
- Become familiar with infant feeding practices and tools available to support this within our maternity service.
- Have an understanding of our breastfeeding policy ensuring consistent messages are provided to all service users.
- Ensure that their clinical practice is safe, current, consistent.
- Course contact: Sarita Gargiulo-Welch
CPI Prevention First is designed to influence and motivate participants to reflect and act in a crisis. As a result, participants will be more confident in their approach to de-escalating crisis situations.
Course Contact:
Sue Ramsay - Director, Healthcare Security
The Enabling Good Lives principles were designed for people to have choice and control over their lives. The disability community developed the Enabling Good Lives vision and principles to underpin a new approach to disability support.
This course will demonstrate the Enabling Good Lives principles in action in a healthcare setting and help you see the importance of embedding the principles across all services in Te Whatu Ora.
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is to support health professionals to develop the necessary knowledge and clinical skills to administer anti-cancer drugs and safely handle hazardous drugs and related waste for adult patients. ADAC provides standardised education for the safe administration of anti-cancer drugs and safely handle hazardous drugs and or related waste The course consists of online learning and assessment and may be supported by a clinical skills workshop to consolidate theory to practice. The course is completed with a competency sign off by a certified senior designated person in your area.
This module provides an overview of the characteristics of hazardous drugs and principles of risk management in the workplace, including the safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste, and the management of risk and exposure in the workplace.
On completion you will be able to describe:
- an overview of the characteristics of hazardous drugs and principles of risk management in the workplace,
- the safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste,
- and the management of risk and exposure in the workplace.
- Course contact: Joanna Laws
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is appropriate for all learners who require comprehensive knowledge and skills in the administration routes of anti-cancer drugs to adult patients.
ADAC provides standardised education for the safe administration of anti-cancer drugs and safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste. The course consists of online learning and assessment and can be supported by a clinical skills workshop to consolidate theory to practice.
Competency assessments are used in your area to assess clinical skills by a designated senior person.
On completion you will be able to describe:
- Understanding how anti-cancer drugs work
- Treatment-related toxicities and management
- Reviewing anti-cancer protocols and prescriptions
- Patient education
- Patient assessment
- Administering anti-cancer drugs
- Course contact: Joanna Laws
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is to present the risk factors, preventative measures and implications of extravasation and how to manage potential or actual extravasation injuries.
The course consists of online learning and assessment. All components of the course must be completed before a certificate is awarded.
On completion you will have:
- Understanding of implications of extravasation
- Knowledge of risk factors
- Understanding of preventative measures
- Understanding of immediate management of potential or actual extravasation injuries
- Knowledge of antidotes used for the treatment of extravasation injuries
- Understanding of post-acute management and documentation
- Course contact: Joanna Laws
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is to support health professionals to develop the necessary knowledge and clinical skills to administer anti-cancer drugs and safely handle hazardous drugs and related waste. ADAC provides standardised education for the safe administration of anti-cancer drugs and safely handle hazardous drugs and or related waste The course consists of online learning and assessment and may be supported by a clinical skills workshop to consolidate theory to practice. The course is completed with a competency sign off by a certified senior designated person in your area.
This module provides an overview of the characteristics of hazardous drugs and principles of risk management in the workplace, including the safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste, and the management of risk and exposure in the workplace.
On completion you will be able to describe:
- an overview of the characteristics of hazardous drugs and principles of risk management in the workplace,
- the safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste,
- and the management of risk and exposure in the workplace.
- Course contact: Joanna Laws
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is appropriate for all learners who require comprehensive knowledge and skills in the administration routes of anti-cancer drugs to paediatric patients.
ADAC provides standardised education for the safe administration of anti-cancer drugs and safe handling of hazardous drugs and related waste. The course consists of online learning and assessment and can be supported by a clinical skills workshop to consolidate theory to practice.
Competency assessments are used in your area to assess clinical skills by a designated senior person.
On completion you will be able to describe:
- Understanding how anti-cancer drugs work
- Treatment-related toxicities and management
- Reviewing anti-cancer protocols and prescriptions
- Patient education
- Patient assessment
- Administering anti-cancer drugs
- Course contact: Rachel Wilson
The learning includes the recorded webinar and a brief 10-15 minute learning module. The learning module repositions the new Financial Delegations Policy in 6 simple case studies.
- Course contact: Learning and Development