CPPD e-learning: Managing pain in children
This unique e-learning course comprises of six units that can be tailored to your own specialist information needs. The package is suitable for all nurses and healthcare professionals working with children in pain.
The development of this e-learning course has been led by Dr Alison Twycross, Reader in Children’s Nursing in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. The course draws on her book 'Managing pain in children: a clinical guide'.
Target your learning with an online questionnaire
Prior to the course you can complete an online questionnaire
which will help you identify individual knowledge gaps and target your learning to your own requirements. This ensures you purchase and study only the units most relevant to your needs. As this is an e-learning package, the relevant units can be undertaken at a time and place convenient to you.
Our e-learning package will provide you with:
- specialist insight into managing acute and procedural pain in children
- a greater understanding of the theory of the physiology, psychology and sociology of pain
- practical ways to relate this knowledge to the assessment and treatments of acute and procedural pain in children
- the ability to use best practice based on current research and evidence
- quiz questions and interactive challenges to test your learning along the way
Choose from 6 different subject areas
This non-credit bearing package offers six different units for you to choose from and each module takes around 10 hours study time to complete:
- Anatomy and physiology of pain
- Pharmacology of analgesic drugs
- Non-drug methods of pain-relief
- Pain assessment
- Managing acute pain in children
- Managing procedural pain in children
Once you have completed the modules of your choice, you can complete the knowledge questionnaire again to review and evaluate your learning.
How much?
Individual modules are competitively priced at £50 each with a £50 discount if you purchase all six modules together. You can self-fund the course or you may be able to obtain funding via your employer.
Sign-up for the course
- Complete the online questionnaire to identify your learning needs.
- Purchase 'Managing pain in children'
e-learning course
- If you have any problems accessing the questionnaire or signing up for the course, email fhscsonline@kingston.ac.uk
