Available education

This is a full day training course for our midwives and LMCs.

Venue will be confirmed in your confirmation email. Please check dates below Tauranga (TGA) and Whakatāne (WHK)

Pre-requisite before you can register on this course you must complete the Combined Emergency Skills Assessment. 

If you don't already have an account create an account.

Once you have passed the pre-requisite, you can book onto the session you require, from Te Whariki a Toi.

Facilitator(s) Julz Griffiths

Course content

• Adult/maternal resuscitation
• Neo-natal resus
• Childbirth emergency skills

This free, two-day training course is recommended for all health professionals who work in the community, in hospitals, health agencies and GP surgeries and who have contact with patients and/or clients.

Please note you must be able to attend both days.

Venue will be confirmed in your confirmation email. Please check dates below Tauranga (TGA) and Whakatāne (WHK)

Pre-requisite before you can register on this course you must complete the Course: Violence Intervention Programme (healthlearn.ac.nz)

If you don't already have an account create an account.

Once you have passed the pre-requisite, you can enroll directly from Te Whariki a Toi.

Course facilitator(s) Deb Fielding and Raewyn Butler

Course content

• Day 1 - looks at the dynamics of intimate partner violence and routine enquiry training.
• Day 2 - focuses on child abuse and neglect, identification management and reporting.

Register for the course (2 day course) here

This is a full-day course for all clinical staff who are currently working for our contracted organisations in the Bay of Plenty.

Venue will be confirmed in your confirmation email. Please check dates below Tauranga (TGA) and Whakatāne (WHK).

Facilitator(s) Internal specialist

Pre-reading none

Course fees Free

Course content

• Hand hygiene and standard precautions
• Clinical microbiology and specimen collection
• Multi drug resistant organisms (MDROs)
• Isolation precautions 

To register - new link

Register for the Infection Prevention and Control, Back to Basics course

This registration is open to LMCs.

All of our midwives need to book via Te Wharaki a Toi.

Register your interest for the Maternity Forum

Any queries or further information email Julz.Griffiths@bopdhb.govt.nz

This free, two-hour training course is for all health professionals and staff in the Western and Eastern Bay of Plenty who have contact with children aged 0-4 years or their families.

Venue will be confirmed in your confirmation email. Please check dates below Tauranga (TGA) and Whakatāne (WHK)

Course facilitator(s) Zirsha Wharemate and Hatea Ruru 

Course content

• Understanding the importance of good oral health in children 0-4 years
• Understanding the risk and protective factors related to dental decay
• Gaining confidence and skills in identifying children with, or at risk of developing dental decay
• Referral process to community dental services for follow-up
• Implementing a plan for good home care and engagement with dental services

To register - change link

Click here to register - Oral Health - Lift the Lip

This course is a full day course for all midwives who care for sick newborns/infants who are currently working for our contracted organisations in the Bay of Plenty.

Venue will be confirmed in your confirmation email. Please check dates below Tauranga (TGA) and Whakatāne (WHK).

Pre-requisite see below pre-reading and test

Facilitator(s) Internal specialist

Pre-reading manual and pre-test both will be sent out a month before the course date

Course fees Free

Course content

• An education programme to provide consistency to the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilisation care of sick newborns/infants
• Information is organised in a mnemonic to assist with retentions and recall 
• This is valuable information for health professionals caring for newborn babies/infants

To register

Register for the STABLE Study Day

This free three-hour workshop is delivered by Zoom and is for all staff who are currently working for our contracted organisations in the Bay of Plenty

Venue this workshop is delivered by Zoom. All details will be emailed to you before the start date, including the Zoom link.

Facilitator(s) Mahana Culture

Course fees Free

Course content

Understand and learn how to identify and address:

• What implicit bias is
• Ethnic bias, particularly against Māori
• What institutional racism is