Medical Awareness (Lightning Skills Bundle) Certificate

Cerebral Palsy Awareness

Cerebral palsy is a lifetime disability, with about 17 million people suffering from the disorder worldwide.

The effect of this disability varies from one person to another. Symptoms range from total lack of voluntary motion all over the body to weakness in a single hand. However, it is the most common form of physical disability in children and adults alike. The disorder impairs motion and causes lifelong disability. The complex disorder affects children and adults in a variety of ways: 1 in 3 patients with cerebral palsy or CP cannot walk; 1 in 4 cannot talk; 1 in 4 also have epilepsy, and 1 in 2 have an intellectual disability. Furthermore, the disability has no cure. This course has been designed to create awareness about the disorder to educate and reduce discrimination against individuals who are diagnosed with it.

You Will Learn:

• What CP is and how it occurs
• When CP occurs
• Signs and symptoms of CP
• Neurological issues that ensue from the disorder
• Causes of CP and risk factors
• CP complications and preventative measures
• When to see a doctor
• Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month and Cerebral Palsy Day

Benefits of Taking This Course:

Taking this course will help you:
• Learn everything about CP, including how and when it occurs
• Create awareness about CP
• Decide whether you want to become a CP educator
• Learn how to prevent the disorder
• Learn whether you’re at risk of developing the disorder
• Determine if a loved one is at risk of developing CP
• Understand individuals with CP and stop discrimination

Diabetes Awareness Diploma Course

Diabetes affects 4.6 million people in the UK and 415 million people around the world. It is a chronic condition requiring lifelong treatment. Potential complications include loss of vision, nerve damage and cardiovascular disease. Living with diabetes can be challenging and emotionally draining. Fortunately, receiving practical support can make life with diabetes easier and safer. This course contains an overview of the most common types of diabetes, their symptoms and causes, and the role employers can play in helping individuals with diabetes succeed at work.

You Will Learn:

• What diabetes is, how it develops, the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes and how it impacts a person’s wellbeing.
• The symptoms, causes and risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, along with potential complications.
• How people diagnosed with diabetes can stay well, what check-ups they need and how they can avoid the complications associated with diabetes.
• How diabetes can affect someone in the workplace, why it is a good idea to notify other workers of their condition and how employers can make reasonable adjustments to accommodate their needs.

Benefits of Taking This Course

• If you know or work with someone diagnosed with diabetes, this course will provide you with an insight into their condition.
• If you employ someone with diabetes, this course will help you understand your obligations under the law with regards to their condition and help you make reasonable adjustments to help them carry out their job.
• This course will help you intervene with confidence in the event of a diabetic emergency.
• If you work in the healthcare field, you will benefit from this overview of a relatively common condition.

Disability Awareness Course

People with disabilities represent a large untapped labour pool, offering valuable skills, qualifications and assets for employees, yet they continue to be restricted when it comes to participating in the workforce. Disability crosses all barriers and it’s important that employers and businesses begin to increase their standards of diversity to include employees with disabilities. By removing unfair discriminatory barriers and making reasonable accommodations for their needs, employers can benefit from the skill sets that people with disabilities offer.

This course aims to help you and your business understand the benefits of recruiting and hiring individuals with disabilities and guide you in opening your application process to all possible candidates.

You Will Learn:

• About the barriers that people with disabilities face when looking for employment
• What the benefits of employing staff with disabilities are
• The role that HR plays in recruiting and hiring people with disabilities
• About recruitment strategies that can help increase your access to potential applicants
• Tips on interviewing people with disabilities
• About proper disability etiquette in the workplace

Benefits of Taking This Course:

• You will learn how to remove discriminatory barriers in your workplace by making reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities
• You will be able to increase the variety of skills in your workplace by ensuring that all potential candidates are able to apply
• Your staff will benefit from increased productivity, creativity and diversity
• You will be able to provide a wider range of services
• You will be better equipped to deal with disability awareness, both in the workplace and society

Eating Disorder Awareness Course

Eating disorders are detrimental to human health. They are serious and often cause fatal illnesses that hamper normal eating habits. It is estimated that 1.6 million people in the UK suffer from at least one eating disorder. Although, this figure is likely to be much larger due to some people not receiving the help that they need. The mental illness affects all ages, ethnic groups and races.

Unlike other mental illnesses, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate. Therefore, it is important to promote eating disorder awareness, to help prevent the condition. This course has been designed specifically for this purpose. First, it defines eating disorders and differentiates them from disordered eating and dieting. Next, we cover the causes of eating disorders and various types of disorders that you need to know about. It then states the various signs to look out for, when assessing or diagnosing an eating disorder. The various treatments available for the most common eating disorders are discussed. The course also covers myths around eating disorders and how to prevent the conditions.

You Will Learn:

• The definition of eating disorders
• The difference between eating disorders, disordered eating and dieting
• The causes and signs of eating disorders
• The types of eating disorders
• The treatment options for eating disorders
• Myths around eating disorders
• How to prevent eating disorders

Benefits of Taking This Course

Taking this course will help you:
• Learn everything you need to know about eating disorders
• Have an awareness of eating disorders
• Learn how to prevent eating disorders
• Learn about the various treatment options available for eating disorders
• Learn about the various causes of eating disorders and find out if you are at risk
• Eat healthily and live a healthy life
• Determine if you are suffering from an eating disorder
• Determine the type of eating disorder that you are suffering from
• Make the right decision regarding your health status

Legionnaires’ Disease Awareness Certificate Course

Over 300 cases of Legionnaires’ disease are reported every year in England and Wales. The majority of these cases occur in the workplace. It is a serious illness that proves fatal in up to 12% of cases. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, which may grow in water systems. Fortunately, it is relatively simple to identify potential sites of Legionella growth. In this course, you will learn how to identify and manage Legionella and meet your obligations under health and safety law with regards to risk management at work.

You Will Learn

• What causes Legionnaires’ disease, how people catch it, symptoms and who is particularly vulnerable to Legionella bacteria.
• The systems most likely to facilitate the growth of Legionella, including the type of water stored in a system and its temperature.
• How to conduct a risk assessment to identify potential sources of Legionella growth and the obligations of a business owner under the law.
• How and when you should test for Legionella and the main types of tests used in laboratories.

Benefits of Taking This Course

• If you are responsible for controlling work premises, you will benefit from learning what you must do to prevent and handle Legionella growth.
• Anyone who may come into contact with Legionella at work will benefit from learning about the symptoms and effects of Legionnaires’ disease, as prompt intervention saves lives.
• If you are responsible for conducting risk assessments at work, this course will help you ascertain whether there is a reasonable foreseeable risk that someone may become infected with Legionnaires’ disease and put preventive measures in place.
• If you are interested in occupational health or work in an HR role, this course will broaden your knowledge of occupational disease.

Self-harm Awareness Certificate Course

Self-harm involves people inflicting injury on their bodies to reduce different kinds of emotional pain or to experience a certain euphoric feeling. Whatever the reasons for self-harm, they do not make sense to people who do not have this issue. Self-harm affects many people worldwide and continues to do so. The condition often points to an underlying mental illness or disorder. Therefore, it becomes important to create awareness about this condition, so that sufferers can seek help or get treatment.

This course first defines self-harm and states its many forms. We then state various causes of self-harm and the signs and symptoms to look out for in those people who are suspected to have this issue. Next, we explain why people tend to engage in this painful practice that only causes them more harm. The course covers different treatment options available for self-harm and how they can help sufferers overcome the issue. Several distraction techniques that patients can adopt to help them stop self-harm, are also covered. A few myths around self-harm are also given.

You Will Learn:

• What self-harm is and what it is not
• Various synonyms used for self-harm
• Various forms of self-harm
• Causes and signs and symptoms of self-harm
• Why people engage in self-harm
• Treatment options available for self-harm
• How psychotherapy helps overcome self-harm
• Distraction techniques to help stop self-harm
• Myths around self-harm

Benefits of Taking This Course

Taking this course will help you:
• Learn everything you need to know about self-harm
• Determine if you or a loved one are engaging in self-harm
• Find out about the treatment options available for self-harm
• Gain awareness on self-harm among your peers
• Decide whether you want to take a more advanced course to help those engaging in self-harm
• Understand why people inflict injury on their bodies
• Differentiate between facts and myths around self-harm

Sepsis Awareness Certificate Course

Sepsis is a horrifying disease that affects over 30 million people worldwide. As many as 44,000 people in the UK die every year because of the illness and its complications. While experts know how it occurs - the body attacks itself in response to an infection - no one really understands why it happens. Unfortunately, the result is a potentially deadly disease that can strike at any time. The best way to treat and prevent future cases is to learn everything you can about the ailment.

This course goes into detail about sepsis. We begin by discussing the various risk factors that could make someone more susceptible to sepsis. Next, we review the major signs and symptoms of sepsis, giving you information on when treatment should be started. The course also reviews the various ways medical staff and patients can reduce the risk of developing sepsis. Finally, we talk about the treatment options that are available.

You Will Learn:

• Which groups are at the highest risk of developing sepsis following an initial infection
• How to properly clean a wound or burn to reduce the risk of an infection
• What the three stages of sepsis are, along with the signs and symptoms present at each stage
• How sepsis can be prevented, and the importance of antibiotics
• What the specific courses of treatment for sepsis are

Benefits of Taking This Course:

• You will be able to identify risk factors which make people vulnerable to sepsis
• You will understand the various ways you can prevent infections from occurring
• You will understand why it is so important to take antibiotics exactly as prescribed
• You will know more about the treatment methods for sepsis

Sharps Injuries Awareness Certificate Course

Every year, over 100,000 people sustain sharps injuries at work. The majority of these individuals work in health and social care settings, but employees in other fields are also at risk. Sharps injuries can have long-lasting physical and psychological effects, so it is important to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of injury wherever possible. In this course, you will learn how health and safety legislation should be implemented when working with sharps, how to create a safer work environment that reduces the risk of injury and how to respond to a sharps injury.

What You Will Learn

• What sharps injuries are, why they are dangerous, who is at risk and key pieces of health and safety legislation relevant to their prevention and management.
• How the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 protect workers from sharps injuries.
• How, why and when training employees in the safe use of sharps can reduce their risk of injury.
• What to do in the event of a sharps injury and what information employers need to record following an incident.

Benefits of Taking This Course

• If you are an employer or supervisor in a setting where sharps are used, this course will help you meet your obligations under health and safety law.
• Anyone who works with sharps will benefit from the information on safe working given in this course.
• Anyone responsible for first aid at work will benefit from understanding how sharps injuries occur and how they should be treated.
• Anyone responsible for conducting risk assessments in the workplace will benefit from understanding the risks posed by sharps and how they can be reduced.

The course is broken down into 0 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.

You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!

Once you have completed all 0 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 0 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.

The pass mark for the test is 70%.

If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.

Once you have completed your test you can log in to your account and download/print your certificate any time you need it. If you would prefer us to post you a certificate to a UK address, there will be an admin charge of £10 (certificates sent internationally may cost more).

You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.

You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.

We estimate that the course will take about 4 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.

Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.