Mel shares her journey from leaving school with no GCSEs to becoming a nurse and later practice and staff tutor at The Open University.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Wondering why we need a men’s awareness day? This article explores why we need to extend empathy to men who may be struggling and looks at some of the support available.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Learn about ageing well with our collection of free learning resources including expert insights, recorded talks, podcasts, interactives and courses.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Unlock the secrets to becoming an effective and empathetic leader with our free course, Approaching leadership with care. Delve into the core concepts of leadership by exploring the significance of empathy, compassion, and understanding when leading others and yourself. This course is designed to help you define your leadership style, cultivate a caring approach, and enhance your overall leadership skills.
This course is adapted from the Open University course, K318 Leading, managing, caring.
This course is adapted from the Open University course, K318 Leading, managing, caring.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care seeks to help transform end of life care across the country. A research team from The Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Being able to supervise and assess in the workplace are core skills needed by those supporting learners. In the context of this development, this free course, Practice supervision and assessment in nursing, has been designed to support practitioners working with students in workplace settings across nursing provision. Core to these resources are the requirements of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) – the nursing regulator – to work in different ways to support learners. The principles discussed, however, would apply as best practice to any working environment where employees are seeking to develop themselves under the supervision of others.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free OpenLearn course is designed to help anyone whose life is affected by the menopause. No matter what gender you identify with, this transitional phase can affect people in all sorts of ways, so this course is open to all.
The objectives are to empower everyone, by increasing knowledge of what the menopause is and the effects it can have, enabling awareness of the range of treatment options that are available, and considering in a practical and realistic way the contribution of lifestyle factors to the experience of menopause and to health in the mid-life phase and beyond.
The objectives are to empower everyone, by increasing knowledge of what the menopause is and the effects it can have, enabling awareness of the range of treatment options that are available, and considering in a practical and realistic way the contribution of lifestyle factors to the experience of menopause and to health in the mid-life phase and beyond.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course, Understanding mental capacity, covers the principles and criteria underpinning the assessment of mental capacity and decision making in the UK.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
In this free course, Infection and immunity, you will be introduced to infectious diseases and to the biological agents that invade our bodies and cause them: pathogens. You will also learn about the immune system, the human body’s vital defence against pathogens. Along the way you will learn about the scientific method and how it has helped scientists understand pathogens and aid the prevention of infectious disease. But the challenge is ongoing. Pathogens are everywhere and come in all shapes and sizes. As you will see, the fight against infectious disease remains critical for global health today.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Everyone is ageing, whatever their current age, and we live in a world where many people are living much longer than previous generations. This is often seen as a problem. But is it? This free course, Introducing ageing, will help you to think about this issue by introducing you to some key ideas in studying later life.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Students, Nursing Associates and registered nurses can experience dyscalculia, maths anxiety and numerophobia, but they can be reassured that effective support is available.
Category: Health
Self-managed early abortion in the UK is becoming increasingly common. This allows privacy and home comforts, but better pain management and support are needed to improve experiences.
Category: Health
Learning from palliative and end of life care.
Category: Health
Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people.
Category: Health
Examine the science behind nutrition, covering aspects of biology, chemistry and physics as well as giving some insight into healthier eating. Reading food labels, choosing healthier foods, hydrating appropriately and understanding how we taste food will allow you to be more informed about the choices you make about the food you eat.
Category: Health
This free course, Understanding depression and anxiety, explores the causes of these mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk and causal factors for some depression and anxiety disorders, and learn about the biology and psychology behind them.
Category: Health
How nurses are portrayed in the media does not reflect what is involved in the profession. Improving this can potentially improve recruitment to nursing programmes.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Caring for adults is an introductory course for anyone in a caring role, either paid or unpaid. It builds on what you already know to give you a better understanding of your role as a carer. It also supports your own well-being by giving you some ideas and information about looking after yourself and dealing with stress.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
This free course, Death and medicine: postponement and promise, helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and dying might be neglected as a consequence. The course covers the way that such things as medicine provide the context of the experiences associated with the end of life.
Category: Social Care & Social Work