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Long Term Conditions for HCAs - online (September 2023)

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Long Term Conditions for HCAs - online (September 2023)

19 Sep - 27 Sep 2023 2 day course

Event Dates

Important information

You are required to attend all dates in order to complete this training.

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

Registration: 8:45 am - 9:00 am

Event: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Live Online

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Registration: 8:45 am - 9:00 am

Event: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Live Online

Suitable For

  • Healthcare Assistants

About

Event Details

HCAs provide a valuable service in primary care, supporting nurse and GP colleagues to ensure that people living with long-term conditions have the information they need, in order to achieve the best outcomes.  These 2 half day sessions address the ‘need to know’ elements for a range of areas covered by health care assistants at all levels.


CVD and Lifestyle

  • Overview of the basic path of CVD
  • Current approach to dietary advice
  • Physical activity
  • Smoking cessation
  • Alcohol
  • Top tips on motivational interviewing

  Blood Pressure

  • Measuring and managing
  • Correct technique
  • Appropriate environment
  • How high is too high?
  • Who needs treating?

Introduction to diabetes

  • Different types
  • Lifestyle management
  • Blood pressure & lipids: why are they important
  • Vascular screening

Introduction to motivational interviewing and behavioural change

  • Helping people change
  • Rolling with resistance
  • Person-centred care
  • Using behavioural change in practice

Asthma for HCAs

  • What is it?
  • How is it diagnosed?
  • How do we treat it?
  • Assessing control
  • The importance of inhaler technique

COPD

  • What is it?
  • How is it diagnosed?
  • How do we treat it?
  • The impact of COPD on quality of life
  • The importance of inhaler technique

Tests

  • Why we do them and what they tell us
  • Respiratory function tests
  • Tests used in diabetes
  • Urine tests

About the Trainer

Bev Bostock

Bev Bostock

Event Contact

Essex Equip Ltd EQUIP Danuta Suett 01376 318732 [email protected]

Event Partners

Suffolk and North East Essex Training Hub

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