Seizure/Epilepsy Awareness for Schools

This course was designed to bring greater awareness to all teaching and support staff around Seizures and Epilepsy. When introducing epilepsy, we must first recognise that there are around 40 different types of seizures. We need all our teaching and support faculty to be able to respond in an emergency. The course in very informative and interactive.

Course content

• Introduction & Course Objectives
• Legal Requirement incl Local Policy incl Medication Management
• Epilepsy Ireland guidance and best practice (Time, Safe, Stay)
• What is epilepsy and causes?
• Causes of epilepsy
• Child Emergency plan review
• Types of Medication and what you can do
• What is Midazolam?
• How Buccal Midazolam works?
• Convulsive and non-convulsive status
• Minor and Major Seizures
• Learning outcome review