Event Details
HCAs provide a valuable service in primary care, supporting nurse and GP colleagues to ensure that people living with long-term conditions have the information they need, in order to achieve the best outcomes. These 2 half day sessions address the ‘need to know’ elements for a range of areas covered by health care assistants at all levels.
CVD and Lifestyle
- Overview of the basic path of CVD
- Current approach to dietary advice
- Physical activity
- Smoking cessation
- Alcohol
- Top tips on motivational interviewing
Blood Pressure
- Measuring and managing
- Correct technique
- Appropriate environment
- How high is too high?
- Who needs treating?
Introduction to diabetes
- Different types
- Lifestyle management
- Blood pressure & lipids: why are they important
- Vascular screening
Introduction to motivational interviewing and behavioural change
- Helping people change
- Rolling with resistance
- Person-centred care
- Using behavioural change in practice
Asthma for HCAs
- What is it?
- How is it diagnosed?
- How do we treat it?
- Assessing control
- The importance of inhaler technique
COPD
- What is it?
- How is it diagnosed?
- How do we treat it?
- The impact of COPD on quality of life
- The importance of inhaler technique
Tests
- Why we do them and what they tell us
- Respiratory function tests
- Tests used in diabetes
- Urine tests
