Primary Care Guide for the Adult· 2020
Western Cape Edition
20 March 2020
In response to the global crisis the WCEA is now distributing Coronavirus courses from some of the world’s leading education providers . The content is being provided free of charge to all registered healthcare professionals.
To access the courses please register for an account. This will be em...ailed to you.
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Horizon Medical Education produce cpd courses for primary care health workers, mainly aimed at LMI's. They have users in Zambia and other countries in the region. The courses are downloadable audio modules supported by written resources and online testing.
In response to the pandemic they are pro...ducing free modules about coronavirus, these include what we currently know, how to treat, some public health messages and myth-busting.
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This content provides concise, pragmatic guidance to front-line healthcare workers. The guidance is written by PCI’s Clinical Associates, who are themselves primary healthcare workers. It draws on up-to-date guidance from key sources including the WHO, UNHCR and PCI’s own sister organisation R...ed Whale (a leading provider of medical education in the UK). The modules include: A guide to public health measures; The definition of a case of COVID-19 virus, Preparing the primary health care centre; Prevent the spread of COVID-19; Triage and management in primary care; Managing patients with NCDs; Mental health -patients and healthcare workers; and Case studies.
How to access the course:
Go to the ‘PCI Academy’ website homepage https://covid19.pci-academy.org/
Register for an account, Go to the ‘COVID-19’ course
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This is a guide for healthcare workers involved in patient care activities in a healthcare setting. It aims to show the type of personal protective equipment or PPE needed to correctly protect oneself. Based on the current available evidence, the WHO recommended PPE for the care of COVID patients ar...e CONTACT and DROPLET precautions, with the exception of aerosol producing procedures, which require CONTACT and AIRBORNE (hence, a respirator mask such as N95, FFP2, FFP3). Keeping in mind, PPE is part of a larger infection prevention and control bundle of measures and should be implemented as part of a multimodal strategy of management of COVID-19 patients. Only clinical staff who are trained and competent in the use of PPE should be allowed to enter the patient’s room.
This course is also available in the following languages:
العربية -македонски - 中文 - Shqip - français - ภาษาไทย - Português - Español - Nederlands - Tetun
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Most health care-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene – cleaning hands at the right times and in the right way. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care support hand hygiene promotion and improvement in health care facilities worldwide and are complemented by th...e WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the guide to implementation, and implementation toolkit, which contain many ready-to-use practical tools. This module has been prepared to help summarize the WHO guidelines on hand hygiene, associated tools and ideas for effective implementation.
Available in different languages!
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This training is part of the national Rapid Response Team Training package, adapted to take into account specific issues pertaining to the COVID-19 outbreak. Several technical aspects presented here were developed and posted on different WHO platforms and for larger / different audiences. In this pa...ckage, we have regrouped the essential elements that you, as a member of the national RRT, may wish to take into account as you perform COVD-19 related activities
The objectives of this online learning package is to provide National Rapid Response Teams members with the key knowledge and tools needed to early detect and effectively respond to a Covid-19 outbreak.
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At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Draft an outbreak management plan for managing COVID-19 cases and outbreaks onboard ships;
- Manage an outbreak of COVID-19 disease on board a ship;
- Perform follow-up epidemiological and environmental investigation.
Target audience:
- Nation...al IHR Focal Points
- Port health authorities (PHAs) and local, provincial, and national health surveillance and response systems
- Ship operators and port operators
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At the end of this course, you should be able to:
- draft an airport public health contingency plan for managing COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in aviation;
- manage an outbreak of COVID-19 disease in aviation.
Target audience:
- National IHR Focal Points (NFPs)
- Airport health authorities and... local, provincial, and national health surveillance and response systems
- Civil aviation authorities, airport operators, aircraft operators, airports, and airlines
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Apr 18th, 2020
In response to the pandemic and isolation measures put in place in most countries, course providers are offering learning content for free or at a heavily discounted price.
On this page, Class Central keeps track of these offers. We’ll be updating the list as new ones appear. If... you know about more offers, please let us know in the comments.
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Ce cours fournit des informations sur ce que les établissements devraient faire afin d'être prêts à réagir face à un cas de virus respiratoire émergent tel que le nouveau coronavirus, sur la manière d'identifier un cas lorsqu'il se présente, et sur la façon correcte de mettre en place des ...mesures de PCI pour s'assurer qu'il n'y ait pas transmission au personnel soignant ou à d'autres patients et personnes à l'intérieur de l'établissement de soins.
Cette formation s'adresse aux travailleurs de la santé et aux professionnels de la santé publique, car elle se concentre sur la prévention et la lutte contre les infections.
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A new virus, called the Coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and has spread to people around the world.
Jesuit Worldwide Learning invites you to learn facts and test your knowledge on the ongoing pandemic caused by Coronavirus (COVID 19) through a fun-interactive crash course!
Access is free! You... have only to sign up!
At the moment Unit 1 to 5 are available
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Flutool Plus is the WHO Tool, designed to help lower- and middle-income countries in the process of costing of Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programs. The aim of this course is to promote the dissemination and use of Flutool Plus. The course is meant for national program managers, who are responsi...ble for mobilizing resources to set up sustainable immunisation programs for seasonal influenza.
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Screening areas, treatment centres and community facilities are part of the strategic priorities for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) outbreak preparedness, readiness and response. The SARI Facilities training package has been developed to meet the operational needs emerging with the COVID-...19 pandemic.
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Bioforce launches today "STOP COVID-19 - Essentials for the prevention and control of the virus", a freely accessible, on-line, succint and practical, self learning tool in French, aimed at national and international actors deployed for the prevention and control of the virus in local communities wh...ere confinement is particularly difficult.
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This webinar provides training on integrating GBV risk mitigation and how to support a survivor of GBV and safe referrals. This training is designed to provide an introduction to and resources for this area of work.
This learning resource contributes to UNICEF's HAC/SitRep COVID-19 indicator (Numbe...r of UNICEF personnel and partners that have completed training on GBV risk mitigation and referrals for survivors).
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Training Material - Power Point