Short Courses

Saturday 18th May, 9:00am-3:30pm, Hilton Kilmainham, Dublin

Our comprehensive agenda addresses key facets of this complex issue, from understanding stigma and patient perspectives to mastering assessment techniques, implementing the model of care and exploring the impact of lifestyle modification on health outcomes. Additionally, we’ll delve into pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery, providing essential insights into eligibility, challenges, benefits and the influence of medical tourism.

Agenda Includes:

• Stigma and Patient Perspectives
• Assessment and Screening
• Model of Care for Obesity in Practice
• Medical Nutrition Therapy Approaches for Long Term Patient Goals
• Helping Patients Understand their Obesity & the Value of their Ability to Movement
• Use of Pharmacotherapy in Obesity Management
• Bariatric Surgery: Eligibility, Challenges, Benefits and Impact of Medical Tourism

Attendance is free and registrations welcome from all healthcare practitioners working in primary care and community settings. CPD Approval Pending.

Tuesday 18th & 25th June, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

NIPC are delighted to offer this free, 3-month online training and education programme, designed to equip Cardiac Rehabilitation Practitioners in Ireland with the core knowledge, skills and competences to deliver rehabilitation services in clinical practice.

The course begins with a two-part online introductory session on Tuesday 18th & 25th June, followed by 3 months of self-directed online learning and culminates with a consolidation session.

Applications are welcomed from current cardiac rehabilitation practitioners based in Ireland or in Chronic Disease Management Hubs.

Topics include:

• Expert sessions in how to assess smoking, diet, physical activity and psychosocial health
• Best practice approaches to tobacco cessation
• Theory and practice of health-behaviour change
• New frontiers in healthy eating and secondary prevention
• The foundations for effective exercise programming
• Management of BP, cholesterol and glucose to target, with optimisation of pharmacological therapies

Application Deadline: 3rd June

Saturday 28th September, 9:00am – 1:00pm

This course addresses the needs of primary care nurses and doctors, hospital-based nurses, private and public, paramedics and other allied health professionals who encounter ECG monitoring and traces. It aims to be as interactive as possible, with participants encouraged to bring along ECGs for discussion. The course assumes no knowledge of ECG and is an excellent foundation course in ECG and rhythm recognition.

Course content includes:

• Ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardiac
• Atrial arrhythmias such as atrial fibrilation
• Ischaemia and acute myocardial infarction
• SVTs

This is a virtual ECG workshop, where participants will partake in all aspects of the workshop online.

Course Format:

• Online Learning: (Approx. 4 hours) which can be carried out in your own time in the 2 weeks prior to the workshop.
• Online Interactive workshops: A half day of real-time sessions.