Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals

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Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals
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What is the course about?

Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals
The course Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals is an online class provided by St George's, University of London through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Understand the key processes regarding organ donation with this course for healthcare professionals, anywhere in the world.

Course description
  • Learn about different aspects of organ donation
  • 2 weeks
  • Despite organ donation being hugely important there is currently limited training for healthcare workforce regarding the complex issues around organ and tissue donation. This course aims to change that.
  • On the course, created in collaboration with the NHS Blood and Transplant service, you will learn about the basic principles and processes involved in organ donation from the legal aspects, to types of donation, to the importance of communication with families.
  • Fundamentals of organ donation
  • Criteria for donation
  • Legal and ethical issues around organ donation
  • The role of the Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation
  • Donations after Death by Neurological Criteria (Brainstem Death) or Circulatory Death
  • Checking donor suitability
  • The organ retrieval process
  • Family care and follow up
  • Explain the importance and basic principles of organ donation.
  • Summarise the types of donation, organs which can be donated and the absolute contraindications for donation.
  • Identify the key processes associated with organ donation such as referral, family consent, patient assessment, management of potential donors and organ allocation.
  • Describe assessing and diagnosing death by neurological criteria and management of a brainstem dead patient.
  • Evaluate the importance of laws and guidance that governs the process of organ donation and transplantation.
  • Describe tissue donation and how this is facilitated in UK.
  • Reflect upon the importance of family communication in the organ donation process.
  • This course is for Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation (SNODs), and healthcare professionals such as nurses and doctors of all levels of experience who wish to either update their knowledge or improve their awareness of the subject, for personal or CPD reasons. It will also be useful for students training to become healthcare professionals.
  • St George’s, University of London
  • St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.
  • NHS BT
  • NHS Blood and Transplant provide a blood and transplantation service to the NHS, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals

Course Topic

Development, Programming Languages, SAS

University, College, Institution

St George’s, University of London

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Organ Donation: The Essentials for Healthcare Professionals

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / St George's, University of London you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: St George's, University of London
Topic: Healthcare & Medicine

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