Education and training
We provide a range of education and training opportunities. The team run epilepsy workshops and also deliver epilepsy awareness and rescue medication training directly in to the workplace.
Epilepsy Awareness Training:
Core components:
- What is epilepsy
- Causes
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis (including non-epileptic attacks, facilitating access to investigations)
- Types of seizures and accompanying video clips
- Treatment: medication, side effects, Health comorbidities and drug interactions, concordance, Vagal Nerve Stimulation (on request)
- Living well with epilepsy
- Care planning and record keeping (including assessing risks, keeping safe)
- Preparing for outpatient appointments and GP reviews
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Status epilepticus
- Treating prolonged seizures in the community (rescue medications)
- First aid
- Accessible resources and useful websites
- Electronic Session handouts
Rescue Medication Training
Participants should have already attended the Epilepsy Awareness Course or plan to do so within 12 months of undertaking this session
Core components:
- Staff competencies (individual responsibility and accountability)
- What is Rescue Medication (drug specific)
- Indications for use (includes status epilepticus and seizure clusters)
- Drug properties
- The effect of these drugs on the body (including potential side effects, misuse, and overdose)
- When and how to give rescue medication and practical demonstration (opportunity for staff to familiarise with equipment and practice)
- National Guidance, Local policies and procedures
- Care plans and record keeping
- First aid and when to seek medical help
- Electronic Session handouts
For enquiries about training please contact the Epilepsy team on 0115 8542248
- Best practice guidelines for training professional carers in the administration of Buccal (Oromucosal) Midazolam for the treatment of prolonged and / or clusters of epileptic seizures in the community.
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