Cardiac Rehabilitation in Ireland

How to deliver best practice guidelines in current clinical practice

NIPC are accepting applications for our ‘Cardiac Rehabilitation in Ireland: How to deliver best practice guidelines in current clinical practice’ course. Supported by HSE and Healthy Ireland, this is a free, 3-month online course 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, taking place across 2 Tuesday evenings. Participants then complete 7 online modules in their own time, before returning for a live online consolidation session at the end of the course. Please find more details on course modules below.

Course start date:

Tuesday 4th & 11th March, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Applications are welcome from current healthcare practitioners working in Cardiac Rehabilitation in Ireland.

NMBI and ICGP CPD approved.

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Modules Include:

Module 1: Evidence and Practice

Includes:

  • Contempory evidence for cardiac rehabiliation and its implication in Ireland
  • Approaches tht most effectively increase programme uptake

Module 2: How to Assess and Evalute Outcomes

Includes:

  • The role of the multidisciplinary team in assessment and evaluation of health outcomes
  • Tools used to assess health behaviour change status
  • Measures and tools used to assess lifestyle related risk factors

Module 3: Health Behaviour Change in Practice

Includes:

  • Why health behaviour change underpins successful cardiac rehabilitation
  • The basic principles and main methods for supporting health behaviour change

Module 4: Lifestyle Based Management

Includes:

  • The role of tobacco exposure and the nature of tobacco dependence
  • The fundamentals of nutrition
  • The physiological changes with exercise training and the implications for the cardiac patient
  • Practical resources for signposting patients

Module 5: Addressing Psychological Health Effectively

Includes:

  • Most common psychological factors related to heart disease
  • The role of cardiac rehabiliation practitioners in addressing sexual health
  • Key skills required to deliver these interventions

Module 6: Medical Management of BP, Lipids and Glucose

Includes:

  • The management of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes
  • An Evidence base for the use of cardioprotective drug therapies in clinical practice
  • The importance of promoting patient compliance with prescibed preventive medications

Module 7: Models of Cardiac Rehabilitation

Includes:

  • Key considerations when offering alternative methods of cardiac rehabilitation 
  • The evidence base for centre- versus home-based cardiac rehabilitation
  • The evidence for internet-based cardiac rehabilitation

Course Assessment

This is a one hour 30 multiple choice question exam.

 This course is for current Cardiac Rehabilitation Professionals in Ireland only. This is a free education course supported by the HSE and Healthy Ireland. Endorsed by the Irish Heart Foundation.

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