Handling Information and Data

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Explore how to safely find and store information, the best ways to analyse and visualise data and how information and data can be used to drive service improvements. You'll also find guidance on how to ensure you handle information and data legally and ethically.

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Less than 1 hour
ScotGov Digital Academy

Getting started with data

Format: eLearning

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Audience: Beginners

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: Learn why information is important to your organisation, how it might be used within your organisation and why data should be handled carefully.

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RCN

Information, data and media literacies

Format: Webpage

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Audience: Beginners in Nursing

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (RCN membership)

Description: Find out what is meant by media, data and information literacies, and how to demonstrate these in your role.

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M365 Skills Hub

Microsoft Excel

Format: Webpages and Videos

Duration: Various

Audience: Beginner to Advanced in NHS Scotland and participating local authorities/health and social care partnerships

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (NHS Scotland M365 account)

Description: A collection of guidance and videos to introduce you to Microsoft Excel. Learn the basics of excel or build your skills with formatting, using tables, graphs and charts, creating data models and using power query. 

User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)


 

Skills for Care

Using and Managing Data

Format: eLearning

Duration: 25 minutes

Audience: Beginners in Adult Social Care

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Skills for Care account)

Description: eLearning to help you understand the role and value of data used in adult social care and how it can be stored, processed and shared. Learn about the role and importance of data security in adult social care, and your personal responsibilities for handling data safely, as well as people's rights and choices over their privacy, confidentiality, and how data about them is shared and used.

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More than 1 hour
Microsoft

Data skills for the NHS

Format: Virtual classroom

Duration: 5 to 10 hours

Audience: Intermediate in the NHS

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: Microsoft is offering any NHS employee in England, Wales and Scotland access to free training and exams to help you build skills for a digital career. No matter where you are in your journey, we have courses for you. If you're just beginning your exploration into world of digital data, try our Data Fundamentals course. If you're looking to advance your career or are ready for the next step, focus on these three specialist areas: data engineering, data science or data analysis.

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Coursera

Introduction to Microsoft Excel

Format: eLearning

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Coursera account)

Description: A guided project covering what an Excel Spreadsheet is, why we use it and the most important keyboard shortcuts, functions, and basic formulas.

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Introduction to R Programming for Data Science

Format: eLearning

Duration: 10 hours

Audience: Intermediate

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: This course introduces you to the basics of the R language such as data types, techniques for manipulation, and how to implement fundamental programming tasks. You will begin the process of understanding common data structures, programming fundamentals and how to manipulate data all with the help of the R programming language. 

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Discovering Data

Format: eLearning

Duration: 2-3 hours

Audience: Beginner/Intermediate

Account creation/sign in required: Yes

Description: A collection of short eLearning modules exploring the purpose of data, how to collect and interpret it, and how it can be used to guide decision making.

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