Short Courses

Wednesday 26th July 6 – 8pm

NIPC are delighted to announce that we are now accepting registrations for the ‘Delivering Evidence-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Practice’ online course. This specially designed education and training programme aims to equip health care practitioners with the core knowledge, skills and competences to deliver measurably effective evidence-based rehabilitation services in practice.

This course comprises of an initial online zoom based introductory session followed by completion of a detailed 3 month online component. The online journey involves completing 7 modules in total; engaging in a range of interactive tasks. Following successful completion of a post course online assessment, participants are awarded NIPC certification and CPD points.

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

Saturday 23rd September 9am – 1pm

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.

Motivational Interviewing: The Essentials 3rd and 10th November 2023

Would you like to learn more about how best to enable your patients’ in making important and, often, difficult lifestyle changes? This expert delivered short course in motivational interviewing (MI) aims to equip participants to confidently and successfully support patients in complex lifestyle behaviour change.

This 2-day skills-based and practically-focused course is designed for all health care professions and is delivered by Claudia Salazar, a highly experienced and accomplished certified trainer (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers).

The first day of this course encompasses the essentials and is delivered in a live online session. Day two follows in-person and focuses on the “How-To” practical skills training.