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BSA/Hieda seminar – What Every Matron Should Know
Thursday 2 February, 10:30 - 15:30
- Date: February 02, 2023
- Time: 10:30 – 15:30
- Venue: Zoom
Audience
- All Boarding staff
- Those who wish to have an understanding of teenagers mental health
Course outline
This course takes a look at understanding the teenage brain. It focuses on the development in relation to mental health, risk-taking and behaviours seen in the boarding setting.
Training topics will include:
- The normal brain
- The teenage brain
- Why they behave the way they do
- How can we manage this behaviour in the boarding setting.
Learning outcomes:
- To have a better understanding of the teenage brain and what is normal behaviour
- To identify and manage learned behaviours
- To identify when things go wrong – support strategies
- To create an supportive boarding environment.
Trainer:
Jane Graham, Director, Hieda
Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, Many of them in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilise and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.
She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE. She is currently the director of Hieda and director of health and wellbeing for the BSA Group.
Cost
- Member Rate: £145
- Non-member Rate: £290*
*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Hieda CPD and events, please click here.
