Online learning package offers paediatric training for community pharmacists
Pharmacists can use training package to inform paediatric consultations |
Community pharmacists can gain confidence in dealing with children through the use of an online “Paediatric minor ailments electronic learning package”, presented at a Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group conference in Harrogate last week.
The project, funded by last year’s NPPG/Mandeville
Medicines award (PJ, 28 October, p508), was developed by a team from Evelina Children’s
Hospital, London.
Steve Tomlin, principal paediatric pharmacist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS
Trust, London, and project leader, said that the package aims to set
some standards of practice for a number of conditions, in terms of when
a pharmacist should be referring.
The online learning tool — available free of charge at www.paedpharm.org.uk — provides
community pharmacists with interactive training on constipation, cough,
diarrhoea, fever and rash, head lice, threadworm, and warts and verrucas.
The website also has general information that pharmacists should bear
in mind when dealing with children and their parents, said Mr Tomlin.
“There is a huge need for us to support our colleagues in the community,
who actually see far more children than we do in secondary care.We wanted
the learning to be interactive and to make it as interesting as possible,” he
added.
Within each topic, the package provides information on the condition,
reference sources and activities to complete. The activities are split
into three categories: “learning”, providing information,
case studies, questions, and videos; “practical”, with exercises
such as analysing the products on a pharmacist’s own shelves; and “portfolio”,
with advanced tasks such as critical appraisal of a paper. |
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