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Practical Skills to Support the Breathless Patient

Cost: Free to all employees of CECH and Mid Cheshire Hospital Foundation Trust. £135 to all others.
Duration:

Two and a half days spread over 3 months

Course Dates

• 13 Sept 2010 (full day), 27 Sept 2010 (full day), 13 December 2010 (half day)
  St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice, Winsford
• Thursday 2 December 2010, Tuesday 14 December 2010 & Thursday 10 February 2011
  St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice, Winsford

Course Information

This is a short course to develop and increase the confidence, knowledge and skills of practitioners to enable them to effectively support the breathless patient.

It is aimed at practitioners who care for chronically breathless patients in any care setting e.g. Nurses, AHPs, Therapists, Level 3 Health Care Assistants.

The Course Overview:

Normal breathing process and how it is altered by disease.

The meaning and impact of breathlessness to the patient.

Teaching and learning skills - helping breathless patients to learn new techniques.

Practising new skills and applying them to your work with patients.

Anxiety, depression, panic management and the stress response.

Supporting you to try out and use new techniques with patients.