Your career development is important to the INMO.
The Professional Development Centre is committed to providing high quality, relevant and up-to-date programmes for Irish nurses and midwives.
For further information contact: INMO Professional Development Centre, Whitworth Building,North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7. Tel: 01 664 0641/2; Email: marian@inmo.ie
Information on all courses is also available on our website www.inmo.ie
All courses listed are held in the Professional Development Centre, INMO, North Brunswick Street,Dublin 7. Courses are limited to 15 participants and under (except in exceptional circumstances)
Assessment and Management of the
Patient with Sepsis
Sepsis can occur at any
age and in any clinical
situation. It is considered
a medical emergency and
continues to have a high
mortality despite advances
in treatment. Nurses may
need to take the lead in its
assessment and management
Early identification of sepsis
and the implementation of appropriate interventions in a
timely manner can improve patient outcome. This study
day is designed to broaden the nurse’s knowledge and
understanding of the:
Date: July 2, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Assertion Training – The Eight Step Approach
To Healthy Self-Assertion
Learning to be assertive is an important part of self-development
and can help replace passivity and dependent behaviours with
behaviours that will increase personal effectiveness in all areas
of life. Assertion training can help people to gain greater selfconfidence
and control over their lives. This course is designed to
help people to discover what they want in life and then how to
generate their own solutions to achieve what they want.
Date: Sept 25, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Assessment and Care Planning for Older
People in Residential Care
This workshop is aimed at providing nurses working in this
sector with the most up-to-date information regarding policy and
standards in older person care and will focus on the need for
comprehensive assessment, including risk assessment and care
planning for older people in residential care settings.
Date: July 3, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Assessment and Management of the Diabetic
Foot – Short Wound Care Course
This module aims to broaden participants’ knowledge and
understanding of the assessment and management of diabetic
foot complications and associated diseases, and to evaluate
strategies to promote effective inter-professional collaborative
working for patients with diabetic foot complications.
Participants will have knowledge of the:
Date: May 30 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Assessment and Management of the Patient
with Respiratory Conditions
The study day is designed to provide nurses from the acute
hospital setting with the knowledge to manage patients with
respiratory conditions. This is necessary as nursing services are
now delivered in an environment involving greater complexity
and increasing levels of technology. Nurses may have to intervene promptly in response to sudden changes in a patient’s respiratory
status. This study day aims to provide an opportunity for nurses
to update their knowledge, skills and understanding of respiratory
assessment, problems and interventions to provide quality nursing
care to patients.
Date: July 11, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Best Practice in Medication Management
This study day provides participants with an overview of the main
issues associated with medication errors and near misses and
explores evidence-based approaches to promote and implement
safe medication practice. It helps participants to understand the
'risk management' approach to safe medication management
practice in an organisation. It is underpinned by legislation and by
An Bord Altranais guidelines.
Date: June 26, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Breast Cancer Therapy, Side-Effects and
Management
This study day is designed to provide nurses from the acute
hospital setting with the knowledge to effectively manage
breast cancer patients throughout their cancer treatment trajectory.
Topics include: Understanding mechanism of action of each breast
cancer treatment modality; Enhancing participant’s knowledge
of chemotherapy/targeted therapy/hormonal therapy/radiotherapy
in the treatment of breast cancer; Review the nurse’s role
in assessment of patients undergoing breast cancer treatment;
Assessment and management of the main side effects of breast
cancer treatments; Explore the psychosocial issues that are relevant
to patients with breast cancer.
Date: Sept 19, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Effective Decision Making
The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to
enhance their decision making and problem-solving skills by
using a systematic approach. Objectives include the:
Date: June 18, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Healthcare Provider CPR & AED Course –
The New 2010 Guidelines
This one-day course is the newly released 2010 American Heart
Association’s (AHA) guidelines for CPR and ECC for healthcare
providers. The changes from the A-B-C Sequence to the C-A-B
Sequence, and the rationale behind it, are explained in detail
while providing the maximum time for each participant to gain
the skills of resuscitation. The content of this course includes:
adult, child and infant CPR; bag and mask ventilation; foreign
body airway obstruction; use of the AED for adult and child.
Before the course you will receive the new 2010 BLS for
Healthcare Providers textbook. The course is limited to six
participants per instructor. A fee of €50 will be charged if you
wish to cancel your booking 10 days before the course begins.
Date: June 6, 2013. Registration: 9.00am.
Time: 9.15am-4.00pm.
Fee: €145 members; €195 non-members
(including cost of book and light lunch)
Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) Training
Programme
This programme is designed to assist nurses/managers in understanding
the concept of clinical care programmes currently being
developed by the HSE Quality and Clinical Care Directorate in
areas such as asthma, acute medicines, epilepsy and emergency
care. Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) are a vehicle through which
the care programmes may be realised.
Date: June 12, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Interview Skills
This one-day new training course focuses on increasing the
confidence and effectiveness of participants in a selection
interview situation. The aim of this course is to develop the
awareness, knowledge, skills and confidence of the delegates
concerned in the very important process of recruitment and
selection interviewing.
Date: Sept 10, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Introduction to Clinical Audit
The aim of this one-day workshop is to introduce participants
to the theory and practical application of clinical audit in Irish
healthcare. It is designed to provide participants with the
necessary skills to implement clinical audit in their practice and
be able to deliver evidence of improved performance for safer
and better care for patients. It also gives participants the tools
to demonstrate a baseline of performance and how to monitor
quality improvement over time and introduce quality control in
the current and future regulatory environment.
Date: May 21, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Introduction to Dementia Care
This one-day programme is designed to enhance the healthcare
practitioner's knowledge, strategies and skills that will
improve quality of life for clients with dementia in their care.
This interactive day, inclusive of case studies, dvd analysis
and group work, aims to enhance participants’ knowledge
while providing practical strategies in promoting a personcentred
approach to caring for a person with dementia. Topics
include: introduction to dementia; recognising the impact
of environment on a person with dementia; identifying and
responding to changes in behaviour creatively within your
setting. The impact and progression of dementia relating to the
person, their families and healthcare workers will be outlined in
tandem with strategies to enhance quality of life for the team in
your setting.
Date: Sept 11, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
INMO Safe Practice Campaign
The Professional Development Centre is providing a nationwide series of workshops in workplaces and venues across the country.
The aim of these workshops is to advise INMO members on key areas of practice such as clinical risk, report writing and statement
writing, documentation and professional misconduct complaints to An Bord Altranais.
Dates: May 7 – Orthopaedic Hospital, Clontarf; May 14 – Louth County Hospital; May 15 – Waterford Regional Hospital; May 16 – INMO Limerick office; May 20 – Bantry Maritime Hotel; May 22 – Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar; May 27 – Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore; June 13 – Orthopaedic Hospital, Clontarf; June 17 – Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin; June 24 - GMIOT, Castlebar; June 27 – Wexford General Hospital
More dates and venues are available on our website www.inmo.ie
To book a place please email helen@inmo.ie or call 01 664 0616
Fee: INMO members Free; €75 non-members.
Leg Ulcer Study Day
This workshop will enable practitioners to explore and analyse
current theories and practice in relation to patients with leg
ulcers. The aims include to: Distinguish between the different
causes of ulceration and associated pathophysiology and relate
to epidemiology, risk factors and assessment; Review the nurse’s
role in assessment of patients with leg ulcers; Review the role
of Doppler in the assessment of the lower limb; Appraise the
evidence for compression therapy and relate this to current
practice; Explore the impact of psychosocial issues that are
relevant to managing patients with leg ulcers and suggest
strategies to incorporate these within clinical practice; Explore the
importance of the multidisciplinary team and the role of specialist
clinics in the assessment and management of patients with leg
ulcers.
Date: June 13, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Management of Patient with Tracheostomy
This one-day interactive workshop will provide the participants
with the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to evaluate
and manage the nursing care of a patient with a tracheostomy.
Date: June 13, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Pain Management
This programme provides a comprehensive approach to assessment
and management of pain in elderly care settings. It
focuses on pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods
and includes an overview of the ASK and LISTEN Approach. It
discusses pain types, effective approaches and explores pain
assessment tools. It provides an overview of the psychological
consequences of unresolved pain and looks at use of the WHO
three-step pain ladder. The concept of ‘total pain’ is explored.
Spiritual or ‘soul pain’ is part of the discussion around advanced
cancer pain.
Date: June 27, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
The aim of this workshop is to enable the practitioner to analyse
their current practice and identify knowledge, strategies and
skills that will improve outcome and quality of care in relation to
patients with, or at risk of, pressure ulceration.
Date: May 9, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Recognising Pregnancy Complications
Pregnancy-related complications can range anywhere
from mild to moderate to life-threatening problems. The
midwife’s role has always been paramount in recognising
early signs which can easily be missed in busy antenatal clinics
and wards. This one-day workshop will prepare midwives to
listen to women’s concerns with a special focus on recognising
those warning signs. The workshop is of extra benefit to new
entrants to the midwifery profession.
Date: Sept 19, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Suicide Awareness for Nurses
The aim of this programme is to heighten awareness of
suicidal thoughts and behaviour and to introduce nurses
from all backgrounds to suicide first aid intervention skills,
to explore their own ideas and beliefs about suicide, and to hear
the views of others. It also aims to develop skills that can be used
to help prevent the immediate risk of suicide. It is based on the
Suicide Assist Programme directives.
Date: June 25, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Understanding Obesity and Weight
Management
This one-day workshop aims to provide a comprehensive
understanding of the causes of obesity and knowledge of
the physiological principles involved in the onset of obesity
and associated illnesses. Lifestyle treatment options such as
dietary, exercise and behavioural interventions will be covered in
depth, as well as non-pharmacological, pharmacological and surgical
interventions. Participants will be equipped with the skills in
the identification and measurement of obesity and weight issues
with practical approaches to management. They will also be able
to implement the most effective ways of working to prevent and
manage obesity in their current practice.
Date: June 19, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Wound Care Management
This one-day workshop will cover all aspects of wound
management including the physiology, assessment, cleansing and
management of wounds.
Date: June 20, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Nursing the Cardiac Patient
This one-day workshop is aimed at enhancing general
nurses' knowledge of management of the cardiac patient.
Topics covered in this one-day workshop include cardiac
anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular assessment, cardiac
tests, medications, chest pain and heart failure.
Registration: 9.00am. Time: 9.30am-4.00pm
Date: May 13, 2013.
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
ECG Interpretation
This one-day workshop is aimed at enhancing general
nurses' knowledge of cardiac electrophysiology. It will
provide participants with knowledge of cardiac rhythms,
rhythm analysis and ECG interpretation (It is advisable to
do the workshop on May 13, 2013, Nursing The Cardiac
Patient also).
Date: May 14, 2013. Time: 9.30am-4.00pm
Fee: €80 members; €140 non-members
Early Warning Score and Associated Education Programme
The INMO has agreed with the HSE to hold 20 workshops
on behalf of the HSE Nursing Services Unit over the next 10
months to update nurses and teach them how to use the
early warning scoring system. This Train the Trainer education
programme recommended by the HSE is the COMPASS programme.
Further information is available on www.inmo.ie
To book a place contact: 01 664 0642 or Email: marian@inmo.ie
Venue: Professional Development Centre, INMO
Dates: May 27; June 24, 2013. (More dates available on www.inmo.ie )
Venue and times of workshops: Unless otherwise stated, courses listed are held at the Professional Development Centre. In order to better facilitate people attending workshops in the PDC, registration for most full-day workshops will take place at 9.45am and the courses will commence at 10.00am. Cancellation policy: In the event of unforeseen circumstances, a facilitator/trainer may be replaced by another suitably qualified person. Cancellation of any course must be given in writing at least seven days before the course begins. Fee will be refunded minus an administration charge. If a person cancels in less than seven days, no refund will be given. Receipts will be issued a week prior to course start date.
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