We offer a carefully selected set of free learning opportunities to help you advance your knowledge in research and expand your future career options. You can work through some or all of this in your own time, which includes:
- Accessing your Your Care Needs You! Ward Facilitator certificate
- An introduction to research and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
- Additional accredited training provided by the Improvement Academy
But first, please watch this short video from one of our experienced Research Nurses.
How to get your Ward Facilitator certificate
First, download a personal reflection form and provide a short summary of your experience of supporting the delivery of Your Care Needs You! on your ward.
Please send the completed reflection form as an attachment to PACT@bthft.nhs.uk and we will issue your certificate. This will contribute to your continuing professional development (CPD) portfolio which is useful for re-validation, appraisal and demonstrating leadership potential on your CV.
Additional optional training
Additional training is available free of charge to all NHS staff.
Training sessions are delivered as short online modular courses and are great opportunities for staff who are interested in improving patient care on their ward. This training will contribute to continuing professional development (CPD), which can be logged as self-directed study. This is useful for re-validation, appraisal, portfolio development and demonstrating leadership potential on your CV.
The training is split up into core sections, and once complete and reflected upon, you will receive a certificate of achievement for each section as proof of completion. The sections of training are:
- A brief introduction to research from experienced Research Nurses and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
- Quality improvement training (Bronze level)
- Human factors training (Bronze level)
- Behaviour change training
Brief introduction to research
Meet Sally and Rachel, two Research Nurses who share their experiences and the benefits of research for them. This short video will help you understand how research can improve patient care on your ward.
If you are interested in finding out more about healthcare research, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) offers a range of accredited Good Clinical Practice (GCP) modules. You may need to create an account before you begin.
Training from the Improvement Academy
Quality Improvement Training
This training is designed to help staff understand how and why everyone has a role to play and can contribute to quality improvement in their work. It can help staff support improvement projects, or make the small evidence-based changes they have always wanted to, in order to improve patient care and safety on the ward.
- Module 1: Introduction to Quality Improvement (QI) Training (5 mins)
- Module 2: Quality improvement in Yorkshire and Humber (30 mins)
- Module 3: How can I improve patient care? (30 mins)
- Module 4: Your model for improvement (30 mins)
Modules 2, 3 and 4 end with a short quiz and the final module is followed by a short evaluation questionnaire. On completion of ALL of the modules, a certificate of completion can be printed. A user guide is also available, although site navigation is explained throughout.
Click here to Access Quality Improvement Training. You may need to create an account before beginning.
Human Factors Training
This training is designed to help staff understand more about the many factors that influence behaviours at work. These include environmental, organisational, job, human and individual characteristics, which together are called ‘human factors‘.
These factors are important because they can affect the quality and safety of care that staff are able to provide. Understanding human factors may help you make your ward an even safer place for both staff and patients.
This online training is delivered through 6 modules and includes activities such as short video clips, quizzes, and taking time to reflect on personal experiences. The training will take no more than 1.5 hours to complete.
When you have gone through ALL of the modules, a certificate of completion can be printed. A user guide is also available, although site navigation is explained throughout.
Click here to access Human Factors Training. You may need to create an account before beginning.
Behaviour Change Training
This training is designed to help staff understand more about changes in behaviour. Many things we do in healthcare to improve safety, such as the introduction of new guidelines and technologies, require NHS staff to change their behaviour. Your Care Needs You! is a good example of this.
It is often assumed that this is easy. Tell people what to do, and they will do it. But, behaviour change can be difficult to achieve. This training is designed to help healthcare teams to achieve behaviour change by applying tried and tested theories from psychology.
Research evidence tells us that interventions based on theories of behaviour change are more effective. However, these theories are often inaccessible to healthcare professionals and managers who are responsible for making change happen.
Click here to access Behaviour Change Training. You may need to create an account before beginning.