If you're new to Essential Training Solutions
and have never heard about us or our excellent products, then
this page may be of help to you.
Below you'll find a few details about who
we are, what our background is, our level of expertise in the
field of Complementary Healthcare training, and you'll also
find details of our technical support (in the unlikely event
of your ever needing it).
If the information you require about us is
not listed below, then please contact us and we'll do our best
to help you.
Background
Essential Training Solutions (ETS) launched its first product,
Essential Aromatherapy, in October 1998. This product received
favourable reviews, was accredited by the prestigious Institute
of IT Training with the Silver Award for Self Study Course of
the Year 1998 and, most importantly, was received with much enthusiasm
by students. It has been reviewed by the GCP and is consequently
listed in the GCP Ed Tutor Guide and Student Workbooks. This
product has also been presented at both the ISPA and IFA Annual
Conferences and, more recently, has been brought to the attention
of the IFPA. We are constantly working to ensure that Essential
Aromatherapy will continue to largely reflect the generic, course
information being taught in the majority of Schools and Colleges.
As a result of demonstrating Essential Aromatherapy in Schools,
Colleges and at Exhibitions, requests came flooding in for
further courseware. From these requests, reflexology was chosen
as the next product. During the development stage, it became
apparent that the Anatomy & Physiology section was sufficiently
comprehensive to also be distributed separately. On 1st January
2000, Essential Reflexology and Essential Anatomy & Physiology – The
Elementary Guide were launched. Students and tutors received
both products with great enthusiasm.
1st July 2002 saw the launch of yet another new product -
Essential Anatomy & Physiology. Over 300% larger than its
predecessor, it takes a deeper look at the body systems and,
in doing so, takes Essential Training Solutions into the Academic
and Medical markets. In September 2003, Essential Anatomy & Physiology
was approved by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Accreditation
Unit until 14/09/06, and an e-learning version was launched
in Spring 2005 and was linked to the RCN’s online Learning
Zone.
In spring 2006 we were delighted to become a VTCT Approved
Centre to deliver an online Level 3 Anatomy & Physiology
Diploma. This enables us to issue a recognised certificate
of competence to our own students.
Currently our courseware is supporting thousands of individual
students and practitioners, as far a field as the USA, Australia,
Hong Kong, Japan, China and India. It is being used by numerous
colleges across the country, and is being retailed in a few
select outlets.
To support the complementary healthcare practitioner further,
the Client Management System was released on 1st October 2003.
This exciting product allows client details to be kept literally
at the fingertips! Version 2 was released in autumn 2005 and
includes enhancements suggested by enthusiastic existing customers,
making this truly a program “for practitioners by practitioners”.
Feedback is tremendously important to us and allows us to
continue to meet the needs of an ever-changing market. Also,
to maintain our lead in interactive education we are migrating
courses to an e-learning environment to facilitate online reporting
and to take us closer towards our ultimate goal of producing
online examinations.
The last few years have been very exciting for Essential
Training Solutions, and the Directors and support staff are
totally committed to continuing to provide the quality products
and high level of personal service already associated with
this established company.
Expertise
All our training is written by Sharon Coleman
M.I.I.T.T.. Sharon started designing and implementing Computer
Based Training (CBT) in 1984 and became a CBT Consultant in
1988. She has developed training for numerous organisations
in a variety of market sectors including Banking and Finance,
Insurance, Retail, Telecommunications, Paper and Print, Transport
and Utilities. Sharon was awarded Full Membership status of
the Institue of IT Training in May 2000 in recognition of training
experience and achievements over the previous 16 years.
All interactive products produced by Essential Training Solutions use fundamental
principles of CBT to facilitate the learning process. So what is CBT? The
most common misconception is that it is purely teaching people how to use
computers. This can be a use, but is by no means the whole story. Computer
Based Training is an ideal medium to:
All
products are vigorously tested before release and go through many
levels of quality assurance. The software used to 'drive' the products
is fully licensed and supported.