Aim: To understand the skills required to make efficient use of technology in a care setting

Objectives:

By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

• Understand the basics about the technology
• Describe the list of digital devices you may be working with daily
• List of the relevant legislations in the UK
• Understand and match technologies to the care tasks
• Describe how you to make use of accessibility tools on devices and help others to use these tools
• Explain how to use the internet to access websites, search engines or emails as required by your role as a care professional
• Understand how to solve basic problems when using technology

Introduction

Welcome to the Halo Staffing eLearning course on – Technical skills for using technology.

We will begin this course with some basic information about technology.

We will then list the digital devices you as a care professional would be working with daily.

Here, we will list the relevant legislations in the UK.

We will then match the available technologies to the relevant care tasks.

Having done that, we will inform you how to make use of accessibility tools on devices and help others to use these tools.

The next section will be about the internet – how to access websites, use search engines, send and receive emails etc.

Finally, we will inform you how to solve basic problems when using technology.