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Events in September 2016

Caring for the Person with Dementia
Monday 5th - Tuesday 6th September, Glasgow
Monday 22nd - Tuesday 23rd September, Manchester

This insightful two-day course explores the experience of people and their families who are living with Dementia. You will be encouraged to explore care strategies to meet the needs of this patient group. The course will include experiential learning to empathise with the experience of living with dementia, case studies to link theory with practice, and group professional discussion to learn from each other’s experience.

Web: Caring for the Person with Dementia

The Law and the Nurse
Wednesday 7th September, Glasgow
Friday 30th September, Birmingham

A practicing Advanced Nurse Practitioner with an extensive clinical and legal background delivers this fascinating course. It will provide you with expert opinion on a raft of professional and legal issues that affect everyday practice of healthcare professionals. Charles Bloe's trainer relates the content to numerous real life scenarios that provides attendees with an intriguing day’s study.

Web: The Law and the Nurse

Travel Health Roadshow
Saturday, 10 September, London
Thursday, 15 September, Newcastle
Wednesday, 28 September, Cardiff

This informative workshop will provide delegates with an update on many topics, including vaccines, malaria, professional issues and the very latest developments in travel. The workshop will also offer an opportunity to network with friends, colleagues and exhibitors. The event is open to all health care professionals practising travel medicine.

Web: Travel Health Roadshow London, Newcastle, Cardiff

RCN Research Conference
Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September
Nottingham

The 22nd International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research Conference 2016 will this year focus on mental health across the life course. The closing date for the submission of abstracts is April 29.

Web: RCN Research Conference

Community Health
Monday 19th to Tuesday 20th September
London

Queen’s Nursing Institute conference titled Healthcare in the Community.

Web: Community Health

The ECG Demystified
Monday 19th - Tuesday 20th September, Birmingham
Monday 26th - Tuesday 27th September, Glasgow

This award-winning two-day workshop will be of interest to healthcare professionals that have a requirement to record and interpret ECG’s. It will be particularly relevant for those working in cardiology, acute medicine and Emergency Departments.

Web: The ECG Demystified

End of Life Care – RCN and NCPC joint workshop
Tuesday 20th September
Peterborough

These workshops are aimed at practitioners working with people approaching the end of their lives and will provide opportunities to discuss what good end of life care should look like.

They will address ways of initiating conversations about end of life planning that could be useful in all areas of nursing. The workshops will also talk about the importance of nurses looking after themselves.

Where: Thorpe Hall Hospice, Thorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough, PE3 6LW

Cost: £60

Web: End of Life Care – RCN and NCPC joint workshop

How to Perform Venepuncture
Wednesday 21st September, Birmingham
Thursday 22nd September, London
Thursday 29th September, Glasgow

The interactive one-day workshop will equip you with the skills and knowledge to help you achieve competency in venepuncture under the clinical supervision of a practitioner in the workplace. On the day you will have ample opportunity to practice both techniques on Charles Bloe's life-like training Adam Rouilly mannequins under the expert supervision of their trainers.

Web: How to Perform Venepuncture

Caring for the Patient with a Tracheostomy
Thursday 22nd September
Birmingham

Attendance at this interactive one-day workshop is restricted to ensure that participants have ample opportunity to demonstrate a variety of techniques on Charles Bloe's life-like Adam Rouilly mannequins under the expert supervision of tutor Joely Bostock.

Web: Caring for the Patient with a Tracheostomy

2nd Global Conference on Emergency Nursing & Trauma Care
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September
Spain

The ever increasing demand for emergency care is a global phenonomena. Nurses in both the developed and developing world face differing but significant challenges in delivering timely emergency care. The conference is of interest for all those involved in the delivery, development and organisation of emergency nursing, trauma care, paramedical and medical sciences. The language of the conference is English.

Web: 2nd Global Conference on Emergency Nursing & Trauma Care

End of Life Care
Friday 30th September
London

End of Life Care (EOLC) is the care experienced by people who have incurable illness and are approaching death. Good EOLC enables people to live as much comfort as possible until they die, and to make choices about their care. This course is suitable for all healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care.

Web: End of Life Care

Diabetes for Registered Nurses
Friday 30th September
RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, King George V Drive East, Cardiff, CF14 4XZ

This morning seminar aims to raise awareness of how to deal with the difficulties people with diabetes experience in managing their diabetes. This seminar is suitable to Registered Nurses working both in the Independent Sector and NHS. For further information contact Rhona Workman.

Tel: 02920 680 713

Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Web: RCN Wales

Diabetes for Health Care Support Workers
Friday 30th September
RCN Wales, Ty Maeth, King George V Drive East, Cardiff, CF14 4XZ

This afternoon seminar aims to raise awareness of how to deal with the difficulties people with diabetes experience in managing their diabetes. This seminar is suitable to Health Care Support Workers working both in the Independent Sector and NHS. For further information contact Rhona Workman.

Tel: 02920 680 713

Email: Rhona.workman@rcn.org.uk

Web: RCN Wales