About the Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme

The Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme has been developed to support nursing colleagues who may be interested in a healthcare career within adult prison settings. The programme has been developed to support specific learning opportunities for pre-registration and registered nurses, and registered nursing associates. Nurses and nursing associates work in a wide range of health and justice settings, which includes adult male prisons.

This programme is also intended to support the current nursing workforce in this area of practice, and signpost further information about career development opportunities. This resource has been developed to map to the NMC Code of Conduct and the NMC proficiency standards for pre-registration nurses and nursing associates.

The programme features interviews with several healthcare professionals, providing an overview of delivering care to the prison population and is available in multiple formats:

• A standalone app featuring 5 scenarios based on real life practitioner/patient interactions
• 5 individual elearning sessions mapped to the 5 scenarios
• A downloadable app to view on a virtual reality headset or on a smartphone with a cardboard headset

The 5 scenarios are as follows:

• Orientation to placement opportunities in health and justice
• Optimising safety and reducing risks: developing pre-placement awareness to understand potential challenges for nursing students in adult prison healthcare settings
• Managing difficult situations using conflict resolution and de-escalation techniques in adult prison healthcare settings
• Managing pain relief in adult prison healthcare settings
• Caring for people who are prisoners in wider healthcare settings

For a preview of the programme, please see the Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings promotional video.

More information

The Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme links closely to the Introduction to Health and Justice Careers programme, created in partnership between HEE elfh and NHS England Health and Justice

The Introduction to Health and Justice Careers programme provides a basic overview of the services commissioned by NHS England, Health and Justice, and the career options within these services. This includes services that provide healthcare within the criminal justice system, immigration removal centres, sexual assault referral centres and also healthcare within the children and young people’s secure estate.  Please see the programme page for more information.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following for their support in the development of this programme:

• His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), for helping us in navigating the prison estate
• Practice Plus Group, for providing clinical expertise around prison healthcare
• Spectrum Community Health CIC, for their support and expertise around caring for prisoners in a wider healthcare setting
• Manchester Metropolitan University, Simulation-Based Education Department for their expertise in simulation technologies and to the nursing students who tested the programme.

How to access

In order to access any elfh programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.

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To view the Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme select the View button below.  If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.

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If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My e-Learning section.

NHS healthcare staff in England – ESR

The Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this e-learning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.

Further details are available here.

Not an NHS organisation?

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.

To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.

Registering large numbers of users

If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Nursing in Adult Prison Healthcare Settings programme, please contact elfh directly.

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS

For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.

More information

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.