Hepatitis
Appropriate understanding and management of hepatitis is crucial to protecting the health and wellbeing of the individuals in your care, as well as those around them.
Duration:
50-60m
50-60m
Modules:
15
15
About the course
This excellent training resource will broaden your knowledge of hepatitis, comprehensively exploring an illness which can severely impair an individual’s quality of life.
Would you be able to recognise the signs of hepatitis in someone in your care? If not then this is the ideal training course for you.
Who is this course for?
A ‘must have’ for induction, refresher, management and vocational training.
What does the course cover?
- What is hepatitis?
- The liver
- Causes of hepatitis
- At risk groups
- At risk environments
- Types of hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Symptoms
- Testing for hepatitis
- Liver biopsy
- The consequences of hepatitis
- Liver failure
- Cirrhosis
- Compensated cirrhosis
- Decompensated cirrhosis
- Lifestyle & wellbeing
- Prevention
- Vaccinations & immunisation
- Treatments
- Medication
- Pain
- Alternative therapies
How is the course assessed?
After each module you will be asked a set of multiple-choice questions. The answers are marked automatically so you instantly know your score.
Every trainee receives a FREE training certificate on completion of the course as evidence for your records.
