This course focuses on the clinical and non-clinical skills and knowledge required for specialist nurses to provide excellent care within rheumatology.
Venue
Crowne Plaza, Newcastle
This comprehensive course is designed for clinical nurses new to rheumatology, as well as those already working at an advanced level.
Our course programme covers both clinical and non-clinical skills, and will help you to enhance your skills and knowledge, that you can apply to your everyday practice.
The course programme is designed and mapped against the RCN competency framework and includes a combination of lectures, group discussions, and interactive workshops.
Learning objectives (subject to change):
- Apply advanced clinical knowledge to assess, monitor, and manage people with rheumatic disease, in line with evidence-based practice and national guidance
- Demonstrate safe and effective medicines management, including monitoring, prescribing considerations, and risk assessment in complex comorbidities
- Develop confidence in advanced clinical skills such as joint assessment, interpretation of imaging, and independent clinical reasoning
- Reflect on service delivery and identify opportunities for quality improvement, benchmarking against GIRFT recommendations and best practice standards
- Understand the role of audit, research, and data in improving patient outcomes and service quality