A Learning and Teaching Project to Enable Health Care Professionals to Appropriately Prepare Parents for Discharge From Hospital With Their Infant After Complex Cardiac Surgery

We would like to deliver a workshop to present a new free online learning resource, which has been developed to equip health care professionals (HCP) with the knowledge, skills and understanding required to teach parents about going home from hospital.

The online learning resource teaches HCPs a standardised approach using the Congenital Heart Assessment Tool (CHAT2) to ensure that parents are capable of recognising signs of deterioration to look out for, when they take their infant home for the first time following complex cardiac surgery. In addition, the training ensures that HCPs provide parents with information about when and who to call for management advice and support.

By the end of the e-learning HCPs will have:
• Enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex CHD in order to teach parents how to spot signs of clinical deterioration in their infant whilst at home
• Developed an understanding of the CHAT2, who it is for, what it does, and why it is used
• Learnt how to use CHAT2 when teaching parents prior to discharge
• Learnt how to use CHAT2 to support decision making when taking telephone calls from families at home
• Enhanced recording skills by using CHAT2

Delegates will be able to register for this free learning resource after the workshop