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Overview

This course focuses on the clinical and non-clinical skills and knowledge required for specialist nurses to provide excellent care within rheumatology.
Date
2-3 October 2025
Venue
Hilton Leeds City
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 was designed and mapped against the RCN competency framework and includes a combination of lectures, group discussions, and interactive workshops.

Learning objectives:
  • To enhance clinical knowledge and decision-making in key areas of rheumatology nursing, including blood monitoring, immunisation in immunosuppressed patients, biologic therapies, caring for older adults, and recognising clinical red flags.
  • To support the development of extended and advanced practice roles, with a focus on prescribing, radiology interpretation, and applying current national guidelines to practice.
  • To provide practical skills development through interactive workshops, case-based learning, and peer discussion, enabling nurses to apply knowledge confidently across varying levels of experience.
  • To promote leadership, presentation skills, and career progression, encouraging nurses to reflect on their professional journey and align with the evolving rheumatology nursing competency framework.
Book

Rheumatology for specialist nurses

2-3 October 2025 - Please note we can only accept payment by card for our bookings

Pricing

Level 3: health professionals and nurses

£75
+VAT

Level 3: health professionals and nurses

£110
+VAT

2025 programme

Morning

09:00 - 13:45

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00 - 09:20

Arrival, registration and refreshments

09:20 - 09:30

Welcome and introduction to the course

09:30 - 10:15

Blood monitoring: reviewing and actions

Marilyn Tegon

10:15 - 11:00

Vaccines and immunosuppression

Georgina Ducker

11:00 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 12:30

Caring for older patients

TBC & Kelly Tempest

12:30 - 13:00

Panel discussion

Marilyn Tegon, Georgina Ducker, Kelly Tempest & TBC

13:00 - 13:45

Lunch

Afternoon

13:45 - 16:45

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

13:45 - 15:00

Biologics updates workshop

Lynda Bailey

15:00 - 15:20

Break

15:20 - 16:05

Keynote: Developing your career in rheumatology

Di Finney

16:05 - 16:35

Roundtable discussion: prescribing as a nurse

Leah Irungu

16:35 - 16:45

Summary and closing

Morning

09:00 - 12:35

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00 - 09:15

Arrival and refreshments

09:15 - 10:00

Guidelines overview: impact for rheumatology nurses

Helen Bickerdike

10:00 - 10:45

Clinical red flags in rheumatology

Kelly Tempest

10:45 - 11:05

Break

11:05 - 11:50

Radiology

Muhammad Nisar

11:50 - 12:35

Lunch

Afternoon

12:35 - 14:55

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:35 - 14:00

Presentation skills workshop

Di Finney & Trish Cornell

14:00 - 14:45

Keynote lecture: leadership in rheumatology nursing

TBC

14:45 - 14:55

Summary and closing

Bursary

 

Looking for funding towards your place on this course? Applications for our education bursaries in 2025 are now open, so if you're a health professional, nurse or trainee member, or a colleague from a low and middle-income country, we could support you.

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