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Ready-To-Go CPD Programs
These are archive programs from our virtual classroom.
Ordering three (3) or more of our hour and a half (1½) sessions in a single transaction will attract a 10% discount. This does not apply to our full programs such as the Post Graduate Dementia programs; the full Drugs in the Elderly Update or the full Palliative Care.
20 CPD hours is not enough! – A FREE SESSION
Having CPD hours is not the end of the requirement for RN’s but the beginning
- 1 CPD hour
- Facilitator: Dr Clare Harvey, RN, BA(Cur), MA, PhD, MRCNA Lecturer in Nursing Program Coordinator, Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) School of Nursing and Midwifery Flinders University, SA
- Objective: The participant will be able to discuss the requirements of each point of the CPD cycle and how their knowledge should translate in to practice
Delirium: A geriatric emergency
Can you recognise delirium in an elderly person with dementia?
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate.
- Objective: The participant will be able to identify delirium; discuss the use of delirium assessment tools and facilitate the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions to manage delirium, as professionally required.
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$59.00 per person
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Non Alzheimer’s Dementia
Includes Lewy body dementia, vascular and frontal lobe dementia.
- 1.5 CPD hours/RCNA CNE points
- Facilitator: Dr Ian Presnell MBBS MPM GCHPE FRANZCP, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, VIC.
- Objective: At the completion of this program the participant will have an understanding of the symptom presentation, discuss diagnostic assessment tools and activities, for Non-Alzheimer’s dementias, including vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia and frontal lobe dementia.
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$59.00 per person
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Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Behaviours
Identifies the causes of catastrophic responses, hitting out, symptoms of anxiety and or agitation, and being socially and intellectually inaccessible.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate
- Objective: The participant will be able to identify disturbed and dysfunctional behaviours; use person centred care strategies to effectively reduce such behaviours and professionally account for their care.
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$59.00 per person
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Depression in the Elderly
The different types and presentation in elderly people.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Dr Ian Presnell MBBS MPM GCHPE FRANZCP, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
- Objective: At the end of this program participants will be able to identify the different levels of depression in the elderly, the symptom presentation, common behaviours, assessment activities and treatment options.
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$59.00 per person
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Cognitive Losses in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia
Can you recognise the symptoms? Do you know how to identify the supportive interventions for repetition, memory loss, aphasia, ‘invasive’ behaviour etc, for each client with dementia?
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate
- Objective: The participant will be able to identify cognitive losses, develop, introduce and evaluate care interventions that support the client with cognitive losses due to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
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$59.00 per person
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Dementia Care & Behaviours Across the Stages
Recognising and changing your care for each of the stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Geri Hall PhD, ARNP, GCNS-BC, FAAN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute (USA)
- Objective: At the completion of this session the participant should be able to:
- Map the stages of dementia
- Identify the symptoms & client tasks for each stage of Alzheimer’s disease
- Identify caregiver tasks & the role of health professionals for each stage
- Successfully plan care to minimise behaviours at all stages
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$59.00 per person
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Affective Losses in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia
Includes the symptoms relating to disinhibition, paranoia, illusions, decreased attention span, loss of affect; why they occur and when you may predict them.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate.
- Objective: The participant will be able to identify affective losses and will be able to develop, introduce and evaluate care interventions that support the client with affective losses due to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
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$59.00 per person
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Effective Care Planning from Cognitive Assessment
Do your care plans and funding claims conflict with you assessment findings?
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate.
- Objective: At the completion of the program the registered nurse will be able to analyse cognitive assessment data to effectively develop care strategies to support individuals with dementia or cognitive impairment, and perhaps support their funding claims
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$59.00 per person
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An Introduction to Ethics and Evidence Based Practice
Have you recently reviewed the ethics of your decision making and the evidence behind your care?
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Professor Jennene Greenhill, PhD, Director, Flinders University Rural Clinical School, SA. There is an introduction and conclusion by Prue Mellor.
- Objective: On completion of this program the participant will be able to discuss the issues of ethical decision making for clients with dementia and evaluate common tasks in the workplace in relation to currency of evidence, for each task
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$59.00 per person
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Conative (planning) losses in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia
This is the area of loss that causes wandering, reduced function and apraxia; how to use implicit memory in care planning.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate.
- Objective: The participant will be able to identify conative losses; develop, introduce and evaluate care interventions that support the client with conative losses due to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
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$59.00 per person
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Alzheimer’s Disease
Understanding the disease process, the symptoms, latest research in to cause and cure, assessment.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Professor David Ames BA, MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, University of Melbourne Professor of Ageing and Health, Director National Ageing Research Institute, Editor International Psychogeriatrics
- Objective: At the completion of the session the participant will have an understanding of:
- Patho-physiology relating to Alzheimer’s disease
- Latest research in to the cause and possible treatments
- Risk factor for and symptom presentation of Alzheimer’s disease
- Assessment tools and processes associated with Alzheimer’s disease
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$59.00 per person
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Abuse and Neglect in Residential Care
Includes the obvious as well as the less obvious activities such as doll therapy, terms of endearment; who is more likely to be the victim and who is more likely to participate in abuse and or neglect.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate
- Objective: the participant will be able to define abuse and neglect; identify residents at risk of being abused or neglected; discuss the profiles of staff mentioned in the literature as potentially abusing and neglecting residents; develop some professional activities to protect his or her practice while advocating for the residents
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$59.00 per person
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Pain Assessment and Management in Dementia
Looking what the research is saying in relation to non-verbal assessment tools and management
- 2.0 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Marti Buffum DNSc, APRN, BC, CS Associate Chief Nurse for Research, VA Medical Center, San Francisco, USA
- Objective: At the completion of this session the participant will be able to discuss the Gold Standard for pain assessment and the qualities of pain assessment tools and pain management options for residents with a dementia.
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$77.00 per person
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Sexual Disinhibition in Alzheimer’s and Non-Alzheimer’s Dementia
Discusses the reasons for sexual disinhibiton in clients or residents with dementia and when you may expect this to occur. It explains why the practice of ‘de-sexing’ the individual is not only ineffective, but is a breach of the standards.
- 1.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Prue Mellor RN, PGradDipAppSci(Geront), M(Geront), MRCNA, Master of Nurse Practitioner Candidate
- Objective: The participant will be able to discuss sexuality as it relates to older adults and to clients or residents with Alzheimer’s disease and why some people display sexual needs in a manner that is public; to other residents; to staff and that is labelled as ‘inappropriate’; develop person centred care strategies that can be used by all staff
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$59.00 per person
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Advance Care Planning
Introduces the nurse to the principles of Advance Care Planning and offers practical suggestions for application in relevant nursing contexts.
- 1.5 CPD hour
- Facilitator: Assoc. Professor Rosalie Hudson RN, Dip Arts, B App Sci (adv.nsg) Grad Dip Geront. Nsg, B Theol, M Theol, PhD, FRCNA, FAAG
- Objective: The participant will be able to describe the aims of Advance Care Planning; list the main principles of Advance Care Planning and recommend policy development for Advance Care
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$59.00 per person
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Drugs in the Elderly Update
A series of 7 sessions to update the knowledge and skills of RN’s working with elderly people.
- 10.5 CPD hours
- Facilitator: Joyce McSwan B.Pharm. MAACPA, Accredited Consultant Pharmacist, Residential Medication Management Reviews RACF’s
- Overall Objectives: There is an objective for each session but at the completion of all sessions you will be able to:
- Discuss the effect of ageing on pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and adverse drug reactions
- Identify drug groups of concern and nursing responsibilities
- Comment on the issue of using a medical text for nursing activities
- More information about the 7 sessions that make up this program.
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$59 per person per session, or $335 for all seven (7) sessions.
Payment plan available.
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The New Approach to Palliative Care
A series of 9 sessions to update the knowledge and skills of RN’s working with elderly people.
- 13.5 CPD hours/RCNA CNE points
- Facilitator: Assoc. Professor Rosalie Hudson RN, Dip Arts, B App Sci (adv.nsg) Grad Dip Geront. Nsg, B Theol, M Theol, PhD, FRCNA, FAAG. Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Nursing & Social Work, The University of Melbourne
- Overall Objective: There is an objective for each session but at the completion of all sessions you will be able to discuss contemporary care.
- More information about the 9 sessions that make up this program.
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$59 per person per session, or $387 for all nine (9) sessions.
Payment plan available.
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For More Information
Please contact our office to discuss your inquiry further on 03 9576 7844.
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