Welcome!

Welcome to The Education Hub Online Learning Platform for providing healthcare professionals working in paediatrics with educational resources and programs. This platform is managed by The Education Hub, but the courses on this site have been developed by various teams from the Melbourne Children's Campus.   

To manage your learning, click on the My courses tab above. To browse a list of all our courses and podcasts, select Course Library. You will also find a list of our ten newest courses below.   

If you require assistance or would like to provide feedback please contact us at education.hub@rch.org.au. 


A note for parents

This site has been purpose-built for health professionals and their continuing professional development.  If you are looking for quality, up-to-date health information for your child, please visit the Royal Children's Hospital Kids Health Info.

    Featured courses

    Paediatric Health Education MCHN 2023-24

    About: This online education program based on a Community of Practice, is designed specifically for Maternal and Child Health Nurses.

    Includes: Monthly interactive webinars, recordings available, online chat forum, resources and feedback to support your practice in early child health and development.

    Intended audience: Maternal and Child Health Nurses (including students), Community Nurses and Allied Health Professionals with an interest.

    Cost: $80 + GST to access all course materials from 1 July 2023 until 31 July 2024

    CPD Points: Self- record number of hours attended as CPD activity

    Mode of delivery: Virtual

    Contact: education.hub@rch.org.au

    Course expiry date: 31 July 2024

    Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use


    Course administrator: Emma King

    Paediatric Health education Program for General Practitioners

    About: This multifaceted online education program has been designed specifically for General Practitioners. 

    Includes:  Monthly interactive webinars, recordings available, online chat forum, resources and feedback to support your practice in child and adolescent health and development.

    Intended audience: General Practitioners

    Cost: $250 + GST to access all course materials from February 2023 until February 2024

    CPD Points10 hours of education activities towards your CPD log. Additional opportunities for reviewing performance through our unique platform.

    Important: After enrolling in this course, you will receive email communications, please check your Junk/Spam folder. 

    We recommend you use your personal email address, as your work organisation may block emails from this learning portal. 

    To update your email address, simply click on the drop down arrow beside your name (top right corner of the page) and select Profile

    Mode of delivery: Virtual

    Contact: education.hub@rch.org.au

    Course expiry date: February 2024

    Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use


    Course administrator: Emma King

    neoResus

    About: neoResus is a specialised training program that has been designed to standardise the way in which newborn resuscitation is taught. 

    This learning package can be completed as a standalone module to increase your theoretical knowledge in newborn resuscitation. 

    This learning package is the pre learning module for the face-to-face First ResponseAdvanced Resuscitation and Facilitator Workshop

    Intended audience

    • Clinicians interested in self-directed theoretical learning;  
    • Clinicians interested in enrolling into the Royal Children's Hospital face-to-face neoResus programs.
    Further information about enrolling into the Royal Children's Hospital face-to-face neoResus programs (First Response, Advanced Resuscitation) is available within the program.


    Total time: 3 hours

    CPD points: equivalent of 3 hours

    Cost range: $40 incl GST

    Refund policy: The cost is for the online module only and is non-refundable (refer to the Terms of Use, section 8.2.2).

    Course contact: nets.education@rch.org.au Telephone 1300 659 803, option 3

    Course administrator: Adrienne Fitt

    Goal Setting in Paediatric Rehabilitation

    About this course:  This module will introduce to the conceptual and practical considerations for collaborative goal setting with children and families in paediatric rehabilitation

    Topics:

    Approaches to rehabilitation that influence goal setting

    ·         What is rehabilitation?

    ·         Paediatric versus adult rehabilitation

    ·         Team structures

    ·         What is family-centred service?

    ·         World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Functioning and the F-words of Child Development

    Goal setting

    ·         What is goal setting and why is it important?

    ·         Goal categories

    ·         Contemporary approaches to collaborative goal setting in interdisciplinary teams

    Engaging children and their families

    ·         Complexities to child and family engagement in goal setting

    ·         Facilitating engagement in goal setting: frameworks, strategies, and tools

    Using goals to measure rehabilitation outcomes

    ·         Measuring goals

    ·         Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)

    ·         Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS)

    Intended audience: Health care professionals working with children and adolescents who have specialist rehabilitation needs and their families. Recommended for paediatric health care professionals working with children in rehabilitation, including nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, and psychologists.

    Total time: 30 minutes

    CPD points: Equivalent of 30 minutes

    Cost: Free

    Contact: ABITranslationProject@mcri.edu.au

    Course administrator: Sarah Knight (Neuropsychologist) and Adam Scheinberg (Rehabilitation Consultant)


    Course administrator: Tracey Chau, Sarah Knight

    The Newborn Traffic Light Tool

    About this course: The Newborn Traffic Light Tool is a 2-sided poster serving as a clinical advocacy tool for caregivers - both parents and clinical staff - to use as prioritised mindful guidance during painful and stressful interventions. This module will introduce you to the Newborn Traffic Light Tool so that it may be used consistently and effectively across organisations. Originally devised as a NICU tool, the module has a focus on the NICU experience, however learnings can be utilised within multiple health care settings.

    Topics:

    Infant and family centred developmental care (IFCDC)

    • Stress and trauma associated with NICU
    • Definition and goals of IFCDC

    Infant behaviour in response to pain and stress

    • Infant responses to pain and stress
    • The Autonomic – Motor – Organisation – Responsivity (AMOR) framework
    • Recognising infant traffic light cues

    Delivering IFCDC: the Newborn Traffic Light Tool

    • Navigating the tool

    • Responding to infant cues using the tool
    • Recognising infant traffic light cues

    The Newborn Traffic Light Tool in action

    •  Practical application of the tool using clinical videos

    Intended audience: Health care professionals working with newborn infants. Recommended for NICU, HDU, and SCN nurses, PICU nurses, paediatric health care professionals working with infants, Maternal Child Health Nurses, community nurses, midwives, doctors and allied health professionals.   

    Total time: 30 minutes

    CPD points: Equivalent of 30 minutes

    Cost: Free

    Contact: nicutrafficlighttool@gmail.com

    Course administrator: Erin Church (RN) and Dr Natalie Duffy (Neonatologist)

     


    Antifungal Prophylaxis

    About:  Antifungal prophylaxis management for children receiving treatment for leukaemia.  This module has been developed by the Victorian Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service (PICS) with input and review from the Children's Cancer Centre at The Royal Children's Hospital.

    Intended audience: Medical and Nursing staff working with children undergoing cancer treatment.

    Topics included: Antifungal prescribing, management of child undergoing cancer treatment.

    Total time: 30 minutes

    Cost: Free

    CPD points: equivalent to 30 minutes

    Refund eligibility: NA (free course)

    Contact:  pics.admin@rch.org.au

    Course administrator: James Bull, Georgia Taylor

    Foundations in Paediatric Renal Anatomy and Physiology & Paediatric Renal Conditions

    Course name: Foundations in Renal Anatomy and Physiology with Introduction to Renal Impairment

    About: This course is for clinicians (medical, nursing, allied health) who care for children with renal impairment. The course provides a foundations of paediatric nephrology by focusing on basic understanding of fluid distribution, renal anatomy and physiology and overview of acute and chronic renal failure.

    Intended audience: The module is designed for all clinicians (medical/nursing/allied health) caring for children with renal conditions to support them in optimising patient care and education.


    For advanced clinicians in renal care (NB: Foundations in Renal Anatomy and Physiology must be completed first to access the following course):

    Course name: Paediatric Renal Conditions and Management

    About:  This course aims to build on the clinician's foundational renal knowledge by focusing on renal embryology and specific paediatric renal conditions. Participants completing this course will be offered the opportunity to participate in a 2-day renal program where they can attend online via Zoom. These online presentations are delivered by renal consultants and renal nurse coordinators during the 2-day renal program. The next renal program will run February 21st and February 28th.

    Intended audience: The module is designed for all clinicians (medical/nursing/allied health) caring for children with renal conditions to support them in optimising patient care and education.

    Total time: Renal Foundations module (1st module) is 60 minutes. Paediatric Renal Conditions and Management (2nd module) is 90mins (Renal Embryology and Quiz). Attendance to online study days is 20hrs (x2 study days, 3 quizzes and completion of case study).

    Cost: $50 to attend online program and access recorded presentations. 

    Registration to study days: Opens Jan 2024

    CPD points: Self- record number of hours attended as CPD activity

    Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use

    Contact:  Koala.Education@rch.org.au

    Course Administrator: Annabelle Santos


    Course administrator: Annabelle Santos

    Advanced Paediatric Life Support Defibrillation and Cardioversion

    About: 

    This educational resource has been developed by The Royal Children’s Hospital Simulation Team through the RCH Foundation Simulation Grant, in collaboration with Medical Education, Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU), Emergency Department (ED), RCH Nursing Education and the RCH Resuscitation Committee and Resuscitation Co-Ordinator. 

     Includes:

    In this module, we will cover:

    • Electrical conduction system and physiology review
    • Rhythm recognition
    • Management of shockable rhythms
    • Pad placement and safe defibrillation/cardioversion
    • Defibrillator familiarisation
    • Quizzes

     Intended audience: Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Professionals

    CPD Points: N/A

    Important: After enrolling in this course, you will receive email communications, please check your Junk/Spam folder. We recommend you use your personal email address, as your work organisation may block emails from this learning portal. 

    To update your email address, simply click on the drop down arrow beside your name (top right corner of the page) and select Profile

    Mode of delivery: e-learn

    Contact: simulation@rch.org.au

    Course expiry date: February 2024

    Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use


    Course administrator: Mirna Boujaoude, Jennifer Sokol

    Management of Adolescent Asthma

    About: There have been recent changes to recommendations for the management of asthma in adolescents. This module provides an overview of the new recommendations and strategies to support clinicians using them in practice.

    Intended audience: The module is designed for all clinicians seeing adolescents with asthma to support them in optimising patient care and education.

    Total time:  20 minutes

    Cost: Free

    CPD points: Equivalent of 20 minutes

    Refund eligibility:NA (free course)

    Paediatric growth and growth charts

    About:  Children's growth is a very important marker of their overall health and development. Accurate growth assessment is one of the easiest ways to confirm the health and nutrition of children. This eLearning Module is designed to explain normal patterns of growth in childhood, best practices for measurement and monitoring of growth, practical use of growth charts that are recommended in Australia and recognition of patterns of growth that require further assessment and management.

    Intended audience:  Health professionals in Australia working with young children and their families e.g. Junior medical staff, maternal and child health nurses, nursing students, allied health students

    Total time:  40 Minutes

    Cost:  Free

    CPD points:  Equivalent of 40 minutes

    Refund eligibility:  NA (free course)


    Feeding development - typical feeding development during early childhood

    About: During the first few weeks to months of life, feeding gradually changes from a reflexive to learnt behaviour. Typical feeding development refers to a pattern and progression of feeding skills and behaviours that are accepted as normal for the age and developmental stage of a child. This eLearning Module is designed to explain the features of typical feeding development at different ages and stages of early childhood. It explores the different domains of feeding development (Medical, Nutrition and Feeding Skills [physical, oral motor, cognitive, sensory and motor, psychosocial]) and their complex interplay which should be considered during clinical assessment. Both child and caregiver have important roles and division of responsibilities in supporting feeding development.

    Intended audience: Health professionals in Australia working with young children and their families e.g. Junior medical staff, maternal and child health nurses, nursing students, allied health students

    Total time: 30 Minutes

    Cost: Free

    CPD points: Equivalent of 30 minutes

    Refund eligibility: NA (free course)

    Eczema for health professionals

    About:  Eczema is a common childhood skin condition and affects approximately 20% of children in Australia and is the most common paediatric skin disease seen by General Practitioners. This interactive e learning module aims to help the learner to learn more about eczema, its treatments and triggers and how to support parents to treat their child’s eczema. Additionally, it provides demonstration videos on how to apply treatments such as moisturisers, cortisone creams and wet dressings.  

    Intended audience:  Health professionals in Australia working with young children and their families e.g. General Practitioners, Maternal Child Health Nurses, Medical and Nursing staff.  

    Total time:  30 Minutes

    Cost:  Free

    CPD points: NA

    Refund eligibility:  NA (free course)