In the meantime, if you're looking for some educational and entertaining FREE learning
resources, why not watch our series of diabetes webinars? They’re available on demand, so when you have an hour going
spare, grab yourself a cup of tea and cosy up on the sofa with us!
Diabetes webcast 1: Prediabetes, screening and lifestyle intervention -
watch now
Diabetes webcast 2: Beyond blood sugar – the real management of type 2 diabetes -
watch now
Diabetes webcast 3: Glycemic control and the drugs -
watch now
The Big Ask Diabetes Webinar -
watch now
This one-day course offers a comprehensive update on the latest evidence, research and guidance in the management of both chronic and acute conditions. It includes great tips and tools for improving patients’ engagement with their long-term conditions, as well as ways to move things forward in your practice area.
We’ll cover how best to approach your CPD to meet the new NMC guidelines on Revalidation, and give you lots of ideas, practical guidance and reassurance about making CPD part of your everyday practice.
Prepared and delivered by our Nurse and GP team, the course offers tips to help you work effectively with your colleagues across the primary healthcare team.
You’ll come away with expertise and practical tools to share with your practice and to support patients in managing their health.
Delivered in a lecture based format, with plenty of time for interaction, humour and video clips, to keep you focused and awake.
On the day, registration starts at 9.00am and the course runs from 9.30 to 5.00pm.
The course fee includes refreshments throughout the day and a buffet lunch.
How can I get my manager to pay for it?
If you are keen to attend the course and want to convince your manager/practice to pay for it, we've drafted some text you might like to use in an email to support your case! Please click here.
Below is a fun video made by our presenting team to promote our GPN (Nurse) Update course.
All General Practice Nurses
We understand the importance of nurses and doctors sharing knowledge and skills to improve care. Tailored specifically for Practice Nurses and Nurse Practitioners, our course is both written and presented by our ANP and GP team.
The variety of subjects presented face to face on the day of the course varies to incorporate topical issues and concerns, and includes:
- NMC revalidation, including worked examples of reflective accounts, to make your life easier!
- Minor illness management
- Latest diabetes guidelines and future developments
- Atrial fibrillation, managing and advising patients on warfarin and NOACs
- Lipids and stains, latest guidelines for primary care
- Respiratory conditions, asthma, COPD-overlap syndrome, preventing asthma deaths, management of acute exacerbation
- Early detection of liver disease
- Gastroenterology
- Sexual health and updated combined hormonal contraception guidelines
- FGM
- Saving lives and reducing hospital admissions in primary care - how latest vaccination programmes contribute
- Dermatological conditions
- HPV in cancer, ongoing research and future developments in cancer screening; Obesity and cancer
- Lifestyle
- And top-to-toe topics from rhinitis to vaginal discharge to verrucas
There’ll be lots of humour and fun to help get through everything in one day - without compromising the content!
- A printed copy of the GPN Update Handbook. This fully-referenced handbook covers the most important research, policy and guidance relevant to primary care nursing over the last 5 years. It covers the subjects more extensively than is possible in the one-day course, and is a valuable resource for future reference and personal study.
- 12 months subscription to GPN CPD, home of the GPN Update Handbook online and CPD tracker system. The tracker makes it easy to document your CPD as well as your practice hours, reflective accounts, and all other activities needed for Revalidation.
- Buffet lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
The best study day, covering all aspects of Practice Nursing.
Thoroughly enjoyed this course and delighted to have the pack.
Very relevant. Pitched at the right level.
Many aspects of nursing covered. Very varied and interesting.
Very Relevant to daily practice. Professional and engaging.
One word: Brilliant! One word: Relevant! One word: Excellent! Three words: Nurses Reference Book
5* Would highly recommend. Witty and factual.
Did you know that this course is also available as an in-house course?
The GPN (Nurse) Update Course, like all our courses, can be run privately as an in-house course for your group or organisation. Courses can be arranged flexibly, on a date to suit you. Running your own in-house course provides all the benefits of our open courses and much more.
We can give you some more information about course options, pricing and examples of how this course has worked for other primary care organisations. Please contact us on 03330 093 090 (charged at the national landline rate) or mail@red-whale.co.uk to discuss.
You may also like to look at our other in-house courses.