HINT: How to register for a Connected Care Workshop or Online Webinar

 
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Connected Care Quick Hits are up to date and evidence based recommendations for the care of children with medical complexity & technology dependence, from hospital to home.

HINT: How to register for a Connected Care Workshop or Online Webinar

SITUATION: 

This week’s QuickHit! comes from Connected Care Live consults from home and community nurses inquiring about how to sign up for Connected Care workshops and online webinars. 

 
 

BACKGROUND:

Connected Care offers free, competency based educational workshops and online webinars to help support regulated community health care providers in caring for children with medical complexity and technology dependence in the home care setting.

Workshops combine theoretical content with application of knowledge and skills using simulation.  Online webinars complement the education workshops and provide an overview of up-to-date nursing practices related to the care of a specific medical technology.

ASSESSMENT:

Education modules offered within Connected Care include:

  • Paediatric Tracheostomy 

  • Home Ventilation with a Tracheostomy

  • Non-invasive Ventilation & Mechanical In-exsufflation 

  • Enteral Feeding Tubes and Enteral Therapy

  • Vascular Access Devices

  • Pulmonary Clearance

Online webinars offered within Connected Care include:

  • G/GJ tubes: troubleshooting common problems

  • Suctioning: Nasal, Oral and Nasopharyngeal

  • Central Venous Access Devices: Review of Line Care

  • Tracheostomy Care 101

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RECOMMENDATION:

For more information about the dates offered and how to sign up for these education workshops and online webinars go to:  https://www.connectedcare.sickkids.ca/for-providers-edu

 
 

If a module or webinar is ‘sold out’ and you wish to be placed on our waitlist, please email connectedcare.inquiries@sickkids.ca and you will then be waitlisted for your desired workshop or online webinar.  

An e-mail will be sent to you once a spot becomes available for your requested workshop or online webinar. Please reply to this e-mail in order to reserve your spot within the workshop or online module

Have a question about Connected Care Education? Check out our FAQs

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