NHS Online Course | Neonatal IV Antibiotics at Home

Online forums Neonatal

Thu 23 Jan 2025 09:30-15:50

Online Course, 5 CPD Hours

This immersive online study day has been designed for NHS professionals working in Neonatal teams who are looking to successfully achieve a 7-day service that delivers IV antibiotics at home to your patients.

Hear the first-hand experience of Aisling Phillips, a Neonatal Outreach Manager who will take you through service set-up, working with families and the eligibility for babies using the service, giving you strategies to overcome common service challenges. Walk away with your crucial questions answered and return to your team with the confidence to take your next steps in your service development.

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Delivering Neonatal IV Antibiotics at Home

Online 5 CPD hours From £249+VAT

5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Are you looking for solutions on how to overcome the challenges and achieve a successful neonatal IV antibiotics at home service? Take the opportunity to join this exciting study day and benefit from:

Understanding the requirements for setting up the service and selecting which staff and teams make up the service
Navigating the operational policies: from set up to babies’ eligibility criteria
Identifying and assessing which babies are eligible for the service and working with families
Diving into the data of a successful at home service and take away key advice to make your improvements
Strategies for overcoming your service challenges from delivery, to location and team capacity
Managing patients who bounce back into the hospitals: supporting families and understanding the why
Alleviating staff anxieties around providing this service for families and their babies
Discovering the next steps, you need to take to implement and improve your service

Developed with convenience in mind: join this NHS online course remotely

With an enhanced emphasis on networking, interactive discussion and idea sharing, this forum will provide you with all the elements you need to deliver change through:

This course is available for in-house training

9:30	Join, technical support and leader’s opening remarks Who are you and where are you from? What are your current challenges and what would you like to achieve today?
10:00	Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks Aisling Phillips, Neonatal Outreach Manager, Neonatology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London Children's Healthcare
Establishing your service
10:10	Setting up your neonatal service: understanding who is involved and the operational policies Identifying the requirements for setting up an at home IV antibiotics service Choosing your delivery pathway: utilising outreach teams, neonatal community teams and in house connections Selecting the roles that make up your delivery team to achieve a seven-day service Navigating the operational policies: from set up to babies’ eligibility criteria
10:40	Questions and answers with Aisling Phillips
10:50	Interactive discussion: Understanding where your service is currently at and where you would like to be What is the current service that you provide in regards to delivering antibiotics at home to neonates? What are your main obstacles to providing this at home service? How are you looking to overcome these challenges? What adjustments can you make to your current service to achieve a successful delivery of IV antibiotics at home?
11:10	Screen break
11:20	Feedback from interactive discussion: Understanding where your service is currently at and where you would like to be
Which babies qualify for the service?
11:30	Exploring the steps from hospital to home: assessing which babies are eligible for at home IV delivery Identifying your patient’s eligibility: which babies are able to go home and which aren’t Practicalities for patient referral into the service: who refers and how do they refer? Comprehending your families’ competencies for supporting their baby’s medical journey Navigating the next steps: understanding home expectations and what this entails
12:00	Questions and answers with Aisling Phillips
12:10	Interactive discussion: Sharing and benchmarking your organisation’s policies What are the current policies your trust has in place regarding babies that qualify for at home neonatal antibiotics? Have you had any challenges regarding patient eligibility clashing with your trust’s policies? How have you overcome these challenges?
12:30	Lunch break
1:00	Feedback from interactive discussion: Sharing and benchmarking your organisation’s policies
Lessons learned from a successful service
1:10	Case study: How Evelina London Children's Healthcare successfully achieved a neonatal IV antibiotics at home service Celebrating the successes and navigating the obstacles of setting up the service Deep dive into the data: reflecting how the service is performing Role of feedback: examining parental feedback and utilising it to improve your service
1:40	Questions and answers with Aisling Phillips
1:50	Interactive discussion: Working with the families and community services: expectations vs reality Share your main challenges when working with families and how you have overcome them What strategies have you adopted to overcome common service difficulties such as patients home locations, their living arrangements and your team capacity for providing the service? Have you collaborated with any paediatric community services and if so, how have you worked alongside these colleagues to improve your service?
2:10	Screen break
2:20	Feedback from interactive discussion: Working with the families and community services: expectations vs reality
Alleviating service anxieties
2:30	Successfully troubleshooting returning patients and creating a culture of confidence in your service Managing expectations: responding to bouncing back into hospital and assessing the reasons Navigating the unknown home environment challenges: how to overcome these factors Inspiring a positive and confident workforce: tackling staff anxieties when entering patients’ homes
3:00	Questions and answers with Aisling Phillips
3:10	Interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: your next steps to deliver neonatal IV antibiotics at home What are your three main takeaways from the day? How are you going to implement these takeaways into your service? Share your next steps for delivering neonatal IV antibiotics at home and how you are going to support your patients and their families
3:30	Feedback from interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: your next steps to deliver neonatal IV antibiotics at home
3:40	Leader’s closing remarks
3:50	Close of day

Bringing a wealth of expertise and knowledge

Your workshop leader, Aisling Phillips is the Neonatal Outreach Manager at Eveline London Children’s Healthcare. From setting up the service, to overcoming the challenges of that set up, Aisling’s first-hand experience will give you the tools and know-how to return to your service confident to successfully create and improve your service to deliver antibiotics to your patients at home.

Aisling Phillips

Job Title:

Neonatal Outreach Manager, Neonatology

Organisation

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evelina London Children's Healthcare

Biography

Aisling trained as a paediatric and general nurse in Ireland before starting her job as a neonatal nurse at Guy’s hospital in 1995.

Aisling has undertaken many courses throughout her career as a neonatal nurse including ENNP and the examination of the new born.

Aisling has a number of roles within the neonatal unit and is currently the neonatal outreach manager. She has a particular interest in early discharge and long term ventilation in the home environment. She works side by side with the neonatal team to provide a seamless transition from hospital to home.

Pricing Structure

You or a colleague can claim the group NHS discount, for booking four places across this and any other subsequent event, providing the same pricing structure applies. Click here to view the full list of up coming events.

For group bookings of five or more people, please email our delegate support team or call 01732 897788 for further details

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

Reservations

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

How this online forum will work

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

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Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

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Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This online course is ideal for NHS professionals working within Neonatal, Transitional Care and Outreach Teams and looking to improve your delivery of antibiotics at home. This includes but is not limited to:

Past attendee feedback

This online workshop follows on from our history of successful Neonatal events. Don’t take our word for it, check out some of the feedback from our events:

“Excellent review of neonatal organ donation in the UK, providing an excellent overview and support into how we can look to develop this service in our unit.”
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Incorporating Neonatal Organ Donation into your Service, May 2023

“Great, knowledgeable speaker. Lots of information about what is involved, who is eligible for OD. Opportunity to think about in practical processes for this to occur on the NNU. Realised our NNU has a lot of work to do around this: staff education, processes to build in.”
John Radcliffe Hospital, Incorporating Neonatal Organ Donation into your Service, May 2023

“I very much enjoyed the day. We were able to cover the topic fully. The discussion flowed well which led to a more dynamic, interactive session which is more enjoyable than listening to a speaker talk through slides.”
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Incorporating Neonatal Organ Donation into your Service, May 2023

“I felt the forum was well organised and a good range of relevant subject matter was covered.”
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your Neonatal Palliative Care, February 2023

“Very well organised and kept to time. I am a neonatal nurse (band 6) in the outreach service but have an interest in palliative care and found all the content brilliant.”
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Enhancing your Neonatal Palliative Care, February 2023

“Very thorough and clear and direct on how the deliver this service - fantastic thank-you.”
York NHS Teaching Hospitals, Best Practice for Neonatal Nasogastric (NG) Tube Feeding, Sept 2022

“Fabulous networking and learning opportunity.”
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Developing your Neonatal Transitional Care Service, Nov 2022

“Very informative, lots to consider going forward.”
Betsy Cadwalader NHS Trust, Achieving Neonatal IV Antibiotics in the Community, June 2022

“Excellent course, very well produced and executed.”
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Achieving Neonatal IV Antibiotics in the Community, June 2022

“Really positive study day which will be useful in setting up our own phototherapy service in Plymouth.”
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Foundation Trust, Establishing and Supporting Neonatal Home Phototherapy Online Workshop, March 2022

“It provided an insight to a service that Nottingham wish to buy into. I gained valuable knowledge and networking opportunities.”
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Establishing and Supporting Neonatal Home Phototherapy Online Workshop, March 2022

“Very well run, very interesting and informative, enjoyed talking to everyone to find out what they are doing for their service.”
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Setting Up your Neonatal Outreach Service, Dec 2021

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Delivering Neonatal IV Antibiotics at Home