Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria
This training is suitable for all healthcare professionals including Practice Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and GPs. This is classed as level 3 training for Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children.
Course Aim:
Health Education England (HEE) in partnership with a number of key stakeholders has launched a new e-learning resource which is designed to raise greater awareness and help support healthcare professionals when working with women and girls who are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM).
Supported by the Department of Health’s FGM Prevention team, the e-learning resource focuses on issues related to health, legal status and referral pathways. The sessions are knowledge based and will provide practical support to healthcare professionals facing challenges such as how to approach a conversation about FGM with patients
Course Content:
The full curriculum is made up of the following titles and learning objectives:
- Introduction to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – Sara Creighton, Dr. Dan Reisel
- Describe the different ways in which women and girls may be affected by FGM
- Identify the four types of FGM according to the World Health Organization’s classification
- Describe the legal status of FGM procedures in the UK and abroad
- Explain how to refer a woman to FGM services
- Explain what to do if you suspect a child may be at risk of FGM
- Communication Skills for FGM Consultations – John Spicer, Obi Amadi
- Initiate and conduct a sensitive consultation with a patient at risk of FGM
- Initiate and conduct a consultation with a patient who has undergone FGM, and discuss their attitudes and experience
- Recognise a patient at risk of FGM
- Explain the cultural justifications for why FGM is done
- Consider and address your own feelings about FGM
- FGM: Issues, Presentation and Management in Children and Young Women – Betsy Allen, Dr. Deborah Hodes, , Dr. Sveta Alladi
- Describe and apply key safeguarding principles relevant to FGM to individual cases and organisational processes
- Describe the ways that FGM may present in girls
- Identify the short/long term physical and psychosocial complications of FGM
- Describe and apply the issue of FGM to a key public health model
- Explain the referral pathways to specialist services, social care and/or the police for a girl with FGM and her family or carer
- FGM: Issues, Presentation and Management in Women and Around Pregnancy – Ms. Pallavi Latthe, Dr. Sveta Alladi
- Describe each type of FGM
- List the short- and long-term complications of FGM
- Describe the management of antenatal, perinatal and postnatal issues
- Describe how to carry out de-infibulation either antenatally, during labour or in a non-pregnant woman
- Document the assessment and treatment provided to a woman with FGM
- Legal and Safeguarding Issues Regarding FGM in the UK – Judy Shakespeare, Lynne Townley, Dr. Deborah Hodes
- Explain why FGM is a form of child abuse
- Explain why FGM is a form of violence that violates the Human Rights of women and children gender based violence
- Describe the law relating to FGM in the UK and its influence on the practice of health professionals
- Explain your personal role and responsibilities and the roles of the police and social care within the law relating to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the UK
- Describe where to get help and how to escalate your concerns
Course Duration
Each interactive learning session takes about 20 minutes to complete and is made up of videos, illustrations, animations and images designed to engage the learner on a given topic.
Trainer/Facilitator
The HEE e-FGM project is supported by a host of organisations including RCPCH, RCOG, RCGP, RCM, SAPHNA, CPHVA and FORWARD
Date/Time/Venue
As e-learning this can be undertaken at any time. To access the training follow this link: http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/female-genital-mutilation
Cost
The FGM sessions will be available on the e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) website enabling all NHS staff to access them for free, including school nurses, practice nurses, health visitors and GPs.
Booking Process/Additional Information
Access the e-learning directly using the above links.