Non-Award
Are you a health professional looking to refresh and develop your skills?
2024 Dates: 22nd June, 16th November
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm (AWST)
Cost: $250 (inc. GST)
CPD Hours: 7 hours
Location: Fremantle Campus, WA
This course will examine current trends and practice in delivering psychiatric care to people suffering mental illness, specifically eating disorders. Emphasis on treatment and care options within tertiary, secondary and community settings will highlight ways in which healthcare agencies partner with other organisations and services. Participants will debate and reflect the ethical considerations inherent in determining a variety of hospital and community-based treatments. This course is informed by current legislation and delivered by a content expert. Students will develop skills related to eating disorders building and presenting an argument, accessing, and using professional literature, making an observational record, creating documents, and producing documents to professional standards.
The course consists of three hours of pre-course activities and a four-hour face-to-face workshop where participants will workshop principles of care for people with eating disorders. Pre-course activity access and course location details will be emailed to participants approximately two weeks in advance. Pre-course activity access will be deactivated the day after the course.
This course is suitable for any health professionals caring for people with eating disorders or interested in learning more about this topic (nurses, midwives, doctors, allied health professionals, paramedics)
This course can be delivered at your local facility. To discuss this, please contact postgraduatenursing@nd.edu.au or call (08) 9433 0205