eCare

Barking and Dagenham College & Care City have developed an educational app for carer workers to enhance their skills and confidence in digital health tools, body systems (for example, how the lungs and heart work), and professional conversations with medical professionals e.g. explaining a service user’s condition to a manager, a GP and 111.

The aim of the app is to ensure care workers are able to better detect when a service user is becoming unwell, and understand how to use a number of digital tools to gather important information to help a health professional to make a diagnosis, or initiate prompt treatment.

The learning objectives are:
• Increase carers’ understanding of the main body systems
• To spot the soft signs of deteriorating health
• Teach them how to use digital health tools to take observations
• Empower carers to feel confident to share information appropriately with healthcare professionals
• Provide Care managers with the support they need to enable their staff’s development

The carer will learn:
• About the main systems of the body and how they work
• To spot the signs of deteriorating health
• To use digital tools to take observations
• To share information appropriately with healthcare professionals