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Heart Failure Training Courses for Nurses and Allied Health

Two Day Training Course

Aims:

The course seeks to provide nurses and allied health professionals in Queensland specialising in heart failure with a solid background to the evidence of heart failure management as well as practical tips on ways to deliver the best care for patients.  The teaching methods consist of case-based presentations, panel discussion, interactive sessions, pre and post knowledge test, and provision of templates and forms.

The course covers the following topics:

  1. The epidemiology and public health significance of heart failure for the general population and indigenous Australians: aetiology, types of heart failure, and the pathophysiology of the condition;
  2. Diagnosis and assessment, including imaging and medical and nursing assessment;
  3. Medical and pharmacological management and the role of ancillary therapies such as pacing and devices;
  4. The role of the nursing and allied health heart failure teams in care;
  5. The heart failure toolkit (which provides templates for letters, assessment proformas, treatment guidelines);
  6. Long term disease management, including the role of the general practice and community health service providers, ways of promoting condition self-management, exercise therapy, counselling, advance care planning and palliative care;
  7. Heart Failure Service Standards of Care.


Last Updated: 17 August 2009
Last Reviewed: 18 September 2008



2010 Heart Failure Course
14-15 October 2010
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane

Queensland Heart Failure Services offers the two-day Heart Failure Course annually for health professionals specialising in heart failure and chronic disease management.

Registrations Open: July 2010