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Education
SAPG has worked with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to develop training materials on antimicrobial stewardship for both undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare professionals and provides ongoing support for delivery of education on antimicrobial stewardship across all healthcare settings.
Multiprofessional induction training materials are available here together with links to other resources on management of infections, HAI and antimicrobial resistance.
An education sub group is established, chaired by Helen Maitland, HAI Team, NES and membership is drawn from key contacts and subject experts in Health Boards and Higher Education Institutes. This group considers current and emerging priorities for Antimicrobial Stewardship and the appropriate educational outcomes.
Antimicrobials in Clinical Practice
Pack designed for local trainers to support practitioners who are involved in the prescribing, monitoring and administration of antibiotics in their early stages of clinical practice. It will also be of value to those returning to practice or those wishing to refresh their knowledge of contemporary approaches to antimicrobial therapy in Scotland.
It comprises a schedule of learning outcomes, an editable MS PowerPoint training presentation and a CPD record of evidence of learning. Alternatively a pack of cue-cards of this training resource is also available to support small situational group training promoting discussion and deeper understanding.
Antibiotic Prescribing for Today's Practitioner
Aims to heighten awareness of contemporary approaches to antimicrobial management and issues relating to clinical effectiveness, patient safety and the reduction of bacterial resistance.
There is a selection of e-learning vignettes for the learner to work through, based on a wide range of different infections, presenting in a variety of settings. Each has an estimated completon time of 20-40 minutes.
The target group includes medical prescribers in hospital and commmunity settings; non-medical prescribers including nurse practitioners, specialist nurses, community pharmacists; clincial practitioners involved in administering and monitoring of antibiotic treatment or management of infection; and members of Antimicrobial management teams and infection control practitioners.
Training for Pharmacists
Pharmaceutical Care of Patients with infections
Avoiding Antibiotic Resistance: the role of the pharmacy team
Antibiotics and their role in managing infections
The pdf of each pack is freely available on the NES website for all healthcare staff to use for self directed study
Clostridium difficile - HAI learning Tutorial
This is a self directed tutorial which describes the biology and epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). It is aimed at a wide range of staff including specialist nurses, antimicrobial management teams and consultant level physicians and surgeons. it will improve the learner's knowledge on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of CDI, the spectrum of disease and its presentation
Clostridium difficile - HAI online Clinical Scenario
Self directed programme which describes the appropriate clinical management of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) including infection control measures to the spread of infection. The programme portrays a clinical situation and the learner will be asked questions based on the management of an individual case. It is aimed at a wide range of staff including doctors at consultant SpR and foundation level, infection control teams, specialist nurses and clinical staff with an interest in the management of patients with CDI.
Bacterial Resistance - HAI online learning tutorial
The Bacterial Resistance tutorial is for clinical practitioners wishing to update their knowledge of the principles of bacterial resistance or staff new to this topic wanting to learn the principles of bacterial resistance and its clinical relevance.
The Bacterial Resistance tutorial is aimed at a wide range of prescribers including antimicrobial management teams, doctors at consultant, SpR and foundation level, Infection control teams, infection control nurses, specialist nurses, community nurse practitioners, charge nurses and ward based staff, non-medical prescribers, pharmacists and dentists.
M R G N B – Multiply-antibiotic resistant Gram-negative Bacilli
Short, self directed resource looking at multi-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (MRGNB) and resistance to bet-lactam antibiotics (penicillins, cephalosporins, monobactams, carbapenems). These bacteria present a serious challenge in the clinical management of infection. The resource will be relevant to all healthcare workers at postgraduate level and may be of particular interest to GPs.
For further information on all Healthcare Associated Infection courses and the link to the NES pharmacy page please see links below: