Heart failure training courses for clinicians
Registration Now Open
Program Outline
Managing Heart Failure: From Hospital to Home Course
Location: Education Centre, The Prince Charles Hospital
Date: Thursday 25th, Friday 26th May, 2023
Time: 8.30 - 3.00 pm
The course aims to help professionals:
- Understand the pathophysiology heart failure (HF), diagnostic methods, and medical treatment
- Gain in-depth knowledge of medication management
- Support patients to control symptoms and improve quality of life through diet, exercise, energy conservation, quality sleep and palliation
- Address social and emotional challenges such as intimacy, depression, and activities of daily living
- Understand the role of implantable cardiac devices for heart failure in managing arrhythmias and remote monitoring of pulmonary congestion
Speakers:
Sessions are delivered by medical, nursing and allied health clinicians with heart failure expertise.
Participants: Suitable for all professionals who care for people with cardiac or chronic conditions who wish to have a better technical understanding of heart failure and approaches to treatment. Relevant for GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers and psychologists.
NB: Course will be delivered face to face and via webinar. Participants may attend either day of the course or attend the full 2 days.
Course Costs per person:
| Mode | Registration | QLD Health | Non-QLD Health |
| Face to face* | 2 days | $220~ | $440 |
| 1 day | $110~ | $220 | |
| Webinar | 2 days | $75~ | $150 |
| 1 day | $40~ | $80 |
*Face to face (includes morning tea and lunch)
~Clinicians who work in a QLD Health Heart Failure Service may attend the course at no cost. Please ask your Manager to email qldheartfailure@health.qld.gov.au to register.
Enquiries - please phone 3139 6910 or email qldheartfailure@health.qld.gov.au
