Promoting Sexual Health

Description

Welcome to the Halo Staffing eLearning course on Sexual Health. In this course will we cover everything you’ll need to know to be able to promote good sexual health and reproductive health.

We will begin by looking at the basic anatomy around sexual and reproductive health, and defining some terms that may be used later.

From there, we’ll look at the legalities involved in sexual health, and your legal standing in helping to look after another’s sexual health.

The third section will be on consent, the specifics of consent, and making sure that consent is given.

After that, contraceptive methods, emergency contraception, and the side effects of different methods of contraception will be covered.

Following that, we’ll look at what you can do when an individual may be planning a pregnancy.

From there, we’ll cover what you can do when an individual has an unexpected pregnancy.

The seventh section will touch on sexually transmitted infections and sexually transmitted diseases, and recognising some common signs and symptoms of them.

After that, we’ll look at identifying the appropriate steps to help safeguard an individual’s sexual health.

Finally, we’ll look at how to get an individual involved in their own sexual health.

You can view the introduction video for the Promoting Sexual Health course below.

 

Is this for me? 

This course has been carefully designed for Carers, Support Workers, Nurses, and Managers who want to learn more about Promoting Sexual Health. As specialists in providing staffing solutions Halo Staffing’s courses are relevant for many industries including health and social care for carers, support workers, nurses and managers. Completing this course will ensure that you are fully up to date with relevant content to provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to excel in your field. On successful completion of this course, you will be issued with a certificate and digital badge valid for 1 year.

Why should I take this course? 

You should take this course if it’s necessary for you or your team to keep and protect people from harm and if it’s important that you are able to promote good sexual health and reproductive health. Keeping in line with Skills for Care and the key legislation such as the Equality Act 2010, Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.  

What will I learn? 

This course will provide you and/or your team with an understanding of what the basic anatomy around sexual and reproductive health is, what your legal standing in helping an individual look after their sexual health is, how to make sure that consent is given, the different types of contraceptive methods and their side effects. You will also learn what you can do when an individual is planning a pregnancy, what you can do when an individual has an unexpected pregnancy, what some common signs and symptoms of sexually transmitted infections and diseases and how to get an individual involved in their sexual health.  

Course Duration: From 30 minutes to 1 hour.