Practice Nurse Newsletter - December 2021

Written by Anna Davis and Gemma Bird

Brief word from us

We have come to the end of a really challenging year, trying to negotiate and embrace different ways of working, moving goal posts, additional vaccines, public expectations and for some, personal difficulties on varying scales and it’s about to ramp up again. We hope you do achieve some down time this month to re-charge batteries and will be setting up an offer of restorative clinical supervision in the Spring.

We have a very varied, busy role, working clinically, supporting the Training Hub and representing the practice nursing voice within the system to highlight the value of our team’s skills. We’ll expand on all the areas we can support with next year.

This month we thought we would give you the heads up on all the training planned – it’s all based around what you have asked for and primary care network targets, so we hope you find it useful. Please bear in mind though due to the current climate there may be cancellations at short notice.

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Events for Primary Care Nursing Team

Date and time	Event	Target audience
JANUARY 2022
11 Jan, 19.00-21.00	Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Fundamentals in Primary Care [BOOK HERE]	Consulting clinicians
19 Jan, 13.00-13.45	Hypertension Case Finding [BOOK HERE]	For Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants
19 Jan, 19.00-21.30	Mastering Asthma / COPD Overlap in Primary Care [BOOK HERE]	Consulting clinicians
21 Jan, 25 Jan and 10 Feb	Ability Leadership Programme [BOOK HERE]	Leads in PCNs
27 Jan, 12.30-13.45	Lipid Management [BOOK HERE]	All
FEBRUARY 2022
1 Feb, 09.15-15.15	NATH Clinical Supervision Course [BOOK HERE]	For colleagues involved in supervision of new additional roles and existing nursing staff
2 Feb, 19.00-20.30	Introduction to Consultation Skills [BOOK HERE]	New consulting clinicians
3 Feb, 10.00-11.00	Placement Host Support Session [BOOK HERE]	For colleagues interested in securing student placements in their practice
9 Feb, 14.00-16.00	Non-Medical Prescribing Forum - antibiotics [EMAIL MELINDA TO BOOK ON]	Non-Medical Prescribers
16 Feb, 19.30-20.30	Heart Failure [BOOK HERE]	All
23 Feb, 13.30-14.30	Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes ‘What’s New’ Service Updates	Nursing Team
24 Feb, 13.00-14.00	Wound Care	Nursing Team
MARCH 2022
2 Mar, 19.30-20.30	Angina [BOOK HERE]	All
24 Mar, 13.00-14.00	Wound Care	Nursing Team
APRIL 2022
13 Apr, 13.00-14.00	Wound Care	Nursing Team
MAY 2022
11 May, 13.00-14.00	Wound Care	Nursing Team
JUNE 2022
16 Jun, PM	Primary and Social Care Nurse Conference	Face-to-face