Placement Overview
| Placement Title | ORBISH (Oldham) Integrated Sexual Health Service |
| Private Placement | HCRG Care Group |
| Your Placement Contact | Joseph Deering, Fiona Mulyk – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Joseph Deering – Nurse Manager Fiona Mulyk – Acting Nurse Manager |
| Placement Address | 5th floor, Sexual health Oldham, Radcliffe St, Oldham , OL1 1NL |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0300 3038565 |
| Your University Contact: | TBC – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
The Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Service believe in a person-centred approach to supporting all individuals in managing their contraception and sexual health needs. Every client will be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of age, gender, disability, marital status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or residence.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
All nursing staff are practice supervisors and we have 3 nurses who are practice assessors.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early: None
Late: 11.00-19.00 (Tuesday only)
Night: None
Day: 09.00-17.00
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
The service is free and confidential and aims to promote a healthy and safe sexual life for men and women of all ages and sexual orientation, including young people under 16 yrs. Services provided to clients are as follows; –
- Free contraception:
- Emergency contraception
- Barrier methods- condoms, and caps/diaphragms
- Contraceptive pills (combined and progesterone only)
- Contraceptive patches
- Injectable contraception (Depo Provera)
- Implant
- IUD and IUS (coils)
- Natural family planning
- Advice and referral for female and male sterilisation
- Sexual Health
- Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
- Blood tests for HIV, Syphilis, Hep B, Hep C
- Post and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP/PrEP)
- Young persons’ clinics
- Cervical smear tests.
- Pregnancy tests.
- Preconceptual advice
- Advice for unwanted pregnancy and onward referral for abortion or antenatal care.
- Advice on reproductive and sexual health issues
- Period problems
- Fertility
What nursing model is used for planning care?
As we are a specialist service, we used proformas that use a health promotion model and holistic approach. Activities of daily living are touched upon in this.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Venepuncture
Intramuscular injection techniques
Motivational Interviewing and one-off counselling
Subdermal implants
Intrauterine devices/systems (coils)
Psychosexual consultations
Sexually transmitted injection management
Microscopy
Tests and sampling
Contact tracing.
Working to patient group directives
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Safeguarding
FGM
What resources are available to help students learning?
Useful Internet Based Resources
Department websites: https://www.thesexualhealthhub.co.uk/services-near-you/oldham/
Faculty of Reproduction and Sexual Healthcare (FSRH) website:
http: //www.fsrh.org/
British Society for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) website:
http: //www.bashh.org/
BHIVA
MEDFASH website: http://www.medfash.org.uk/
National Chlamydia Screening Programme website (NCSP): http://www.chlamydiascreening.nhs.uk/ps/index.asp
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
HIV
Intramuscular injection technique
Spoke Placements
Young person’s service
Sexual health outreach
Dermatology
HIV service
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