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There are many challenges facing hospitals and healthcare in the modern world we are living in. I've created this curation collection to save articles that help me understand what modern health in society is.  The articles here are general in nature and placed here to promote discussion. We advise that you talk with your health professional before changing any of your medication or treatment options.  Any of the online courses listed here may (or may not) be open for access or enrolment. Most are free to browse, some may charge a small fee if you wish to receive a certificate or record of learning.   Every effort is made to ensure that these links are up to date and be aware that some of these articles may be behind a 'paywall'. If you can’t get into an article, email me and I may be able to assist.  Views are my own.
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As Parkinson’s disease continues to take from me, I am stunned by so many acts of kindness and bravery

As Parkinson’s disease continues to take from me, I am stunned by so many acts of kindness and bravery | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
The longer I Iive with Parkinson’s disease, the more I fear its impact - in particular, the resolute determination it shows in searching out skills to degrade.
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Dying2Learn

Dying2Learn | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Finding answers to questions about death and dying. Birth and death are something we will all have to cope with. But when it comes to the latter, we seem reluctant to think about, talk about, and plan for it.
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Learn Soft Skills with Online Courses, Classes, & Lessons

Learn Soft Skills with Online Courses, Classes, & Lessons | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Learn effective soft skills with free online courses in leadership, communication, management and more. Build the soft skills you need to stand out and take your career to the next level.
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Free Courses List - from Google Digital Garage

Free Courses List - from Google Digital Garage | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Discover a range of free learning content designed to help grow your business or jumpstart your career. You can learn by selecting individual modules, or dive right in and take an entire course end-to-end.
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#1 Excel tutorial on the net - Excel Easy - Digital Literacy - PD education for team members

#1 Excel tutorial on the net - Excel Easy - Digital Literacy - PD education for team members | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Want to learn Excel quickly? Looking for a fully illustrated Excel tutorial? Using Excel 2019-2007? Looking for free Excel training?
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Grow with Google | New skills. New opportunities.

Grow with Google | New skills. New opportunities. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Providing free training, tools and in-person coaching to help people in Europe get the skills they need to grow their career or business.
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Parental Depression - online course

Parental Depression - online course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
This training is designed to help home visitors identify the signs and symptoms of depression, as well as when and how to refer parents for help.   
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Understanding Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - online course

Understanding Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - online course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
This module provides an overview of key topics regarding IPV, including:

Types of IPV

Indicators of abuse

The extent of the IPV problem

How to discuss the topic of IPV with clients

How culture may impact how IPV is perceived, and

The importance of identifying community resources and establishing relationships with those resources
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Hepatitis C Basics - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs

CATIE’s Hep C Basics course provides foundational knowledge in hepatitis C (Hep C) for service providers who work with people living with or at risk of Hep C. The course content covers transmission, testing, treatment and health literacy. Participants will achieve a basic understanding of Hep C across the continuum of prevention, treatment, care and support, allowing them to discuss Hep C infection in their work and to support their clients.
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Introduction to Pharmacy - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs - (USA course)

The Introduction to Pharmacy course is a survey of the profession of pharmacy including its history, evolving scope of practice, ethical foundations, regulation, educational and career opportunities, and more.

Topics relating to medication use and drug development are explored through the course lectures and interviews with practicing pharmacists.


Please note: This is a USA based course, regulations may differ between countries.

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Disaster Medicine Training

Disaster Medicine Training | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Welcome to Disaster Medicine Training. This course was developed to provide a foundation of disaster medicine knowledge that every health care provider who responds to a disaster should know. This course was developed through SEMPER, Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response. SEMPER’s mission has 3 pillars:

Develop nimble medical teams that could “load and go” into a disaster scene within 24 hours of a call and to be self-sufficient for the first 72 hours.

Develop a standardized disaster medicine education curriculum and training for all members.

Pursue research to develop disaster best practices in order to improve disaster medical care.

This course sets the foundation for SEMPER members’ disaster knowledge, which will be supplemented by in-person lectures as well as field exercises. All SEMPER members are required to complete this course. Non-SEMPER members interested in learning more about disaster medicine or any person wishing to deploy to a disaster is also welcomed to complete this course.

Disaster Medicine Training is a self paced-course, featuring video lectures with questions and case scenarios following each module. You will take an overall pre-test before you start the course and a post-test after you complete all the modules. A score of 80% or higher on your post-test will earn you a Statement of Accomplishment.
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Medical Humanity - Online Course

Medical Humanity - Online Course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Find out how and why you should engage patients and communities in the development of new healthcare technology and treatments.


The development of healthcare treatments has given people hope to fight diseases. However, humans are born to be afraid of advanced technologies.

As such, it is critical that medical professionals have the skills to explain the benefits of treatments to patients and, ideally, involve them in the development of new treatments in the first place.

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Understanding Autism - Online Course

Understanding Autism - Online Course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Understand more about autism, including diagnosis, the autistic spectrum and life with autism, with this online course.


Why join the course?
First identified over 70 years ago, autism is a lifelong developmental disability affecting how a person communicates with and relates to others, and how they make sense of the world. It is a spectrum condition; all people on the spectrum share certain difficulties, but their condition affects them in different ways.

Around 700,000 people in the UK are on the spectrum, 1 in every 100 people. There are no blood tests or brain scans that will detect autism - so what exactly are we talking about? Does autism actually exist?

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UniSC offers Queensland's first degree in prosthetics and orthotics

UniSC offers Queensland's first degree in prosthetics and orthotics | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

The University of the Sunshine Coast has become the first Queensland university to offer prosthetics and orthotics as an undergraduate degree.

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Learn AWS online with AWS Digital Training - AWS

Learn AWS online with AWS Digital Training - AWS | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

AWS Digital Training offers free, on-demand courses developed by the experts at AWS. With our new learning center, AWS Skill Builder, you can explore learning plans and 500+ digital courses to help you own your career and achieve your goals on your schedule. Join millions of learners who have already accessed our free digital training, and see what AWS Skill Builder can do for you.

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Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health - MOOC

Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health - MOOC | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Often called “the cornerstone” of public health, epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases, health conditions, or events among populations and the application of that study to control health problems. By applying the concepts learned in this course to current public health problems and issues, students will understand the practice of epidemiology as it relates to real life and makes for a better appreciation of public health programs and policies. This course explores public health issues like cardiovascular and infectious diseases – both locally and globally – through the lens of epidemiology.

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Free Online Courses for Career Development

Free Online Courses for Career Development | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
From creative problem solving to leading the company of the future, here are courses to navigate the changing world of work. Start learning for free!
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Demystifying Parkinson's disease - PD

Demystifying Parkinson's disease - PD | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
What most people know about Parkinson's disease (PD) is that it causes tremors and that Michael J. Fox, Neil Diamond and Katherine Hepburn were diagnosed with it. While not uncommon — about 1 million Americans have Parkinson's — it's not well known. These FAQs may help demystify PD:
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Improving Family Health: Family Planning - online course

Improving Family Health: Family Planning - online course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
This module discusses the advantages of family planning for the mother, baby and the entire family, as well as tips for home visitors on how to discuss the topic.
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Helping Parents to Understand & Manage their Anger - online course

Helping Parents to Understand & Manage their Anger - online course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
This module provides an overview of what causes anger, the function that anger serves in our lives, and how anger impacts our relationships.  Home visitors will learn how these issues may look in parenting situations as well as specific strategies on how to help parents understand and manage their anger.
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Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs

This course will provide a foundational overview of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing and health sciences, including the seven steps of the EBP process as well as research supported strategies for implementing EBP in real world settings. The course will be taught by internationally renowned experts in EBP who will share their knowledge and skills gained through decades of work with hundreds of healthcare organizations across the nation and the globe. The course will include lectures, readings, and skill building activities.
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Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs

CATIE’s Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV course aims to develop core knowledge on the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV for front-line service providers who have a role in HIV prevention. Through this course, participants will gain in-depth knowledge of the biology of the sexual transmission of HIV and emerge with a concrete understanding of how to prevent HIV through the use of highly effective prevention strategies and other risk reduction tools. This course will assist participants to accurately and meaningfully discuss sexual HIV transmission risk and prevention strategies with their clients.
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Introduction to the Science of Cancer - Canvas Network | Free online courses | MOOCs

Cancer strikes individuals, affects families and causes economic hardship. The burden of cancer will rise globally in coming years due to a growing, aging world population.

As people gain a better understanding of cancer - how it is diagnosed, treated, prevented and studied - they are more likely to take steps to lower the risk of cancer for themselves, their families and their communities. Helping people achieve a deeper understanding of cancer can also lead to improved care for cancer patients.

While this open course is designed to be accessible to those with limited knowledge of science, it will also be useful to healthcare professionals with a limited background in the field of cancer.
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Process Mining in Healthcare - Online Course

Process Mining in Healthcare - Online Course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Learn how process mining can be used to turn healthcare data into valuable insights to improve patient care while reducing costs.


Learn how to get the most from healthcare data using process mining. Within healthcare there are thousands of complex and variable processes that generate data including treatment of patients, lab results and internal logistic processes. Analysing this data is vital for improving these processes and ending bottlenecks.

On this course you will explore how process mining can help turn this data into valuable insights by looking at different areas of process mining and seeing how it has been applied. You will even get the chance to apply process mining on real life healthcare data.

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Introduction to Health Technology Assessment - Online Course

Introduction to Health Technology Assessment - Online Course | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Learn about health technology assessment (HTA) and quality of life (QoL), and how they’re used to decide which treatments to fund


This online course provides a short, interactive introduction to health technology assessment (HTA), based on the University of Glasgow’s successful online distance-learning programme, the MSc in HTA.

You’ll find out what health technology assessment is, and how it’s used to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new healthcare treatments.

You’ll look at the concept of Quality of Life (QoL) and how it’s measured, and explore the tough decisions governments face when choosing which treatments to fund.

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