Upcoming Medical Conferences in Rockhampton

Respiratory Failure Nursing Seminar is organized by ECT4Health and will be held from Feb 27 - 28, 2020 at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 14 CPD Points. Description: If nursing skills used to care for patients with Respiratory Failure, asthma, COPD, and dyspnoea are part of your role, and you desire a better understanding or update on lung sounds, auscultation, respiratory assessment and ABG analysis is desired, then boy have we got a cracker of a course for you. This course focuses on refreshing nurses with fundamental physiology, of different systems, and how to perform specific focused assessments of patients with respiratory distress. All nurses need to stay sharp with their assessment skills. In this course Rob takes you to the cellular level to fully understand deterioration, normal and pathophysiology. you will really understand those lung sounds. You assessment of shortness of breath and respiratory parameters will be the envy of the ward. Ask yourself, Can my skills be improved upon? Have you ever asked a desaturated patient to take a few deep breaths, just so the O2 sats probe reads a number you want to write down? Have you ever struggled to understand pre and afterload, and all the respiratory jargon? Content Includes: • Anatomy and physiology • Respiratory disease, assessment and management • Interpreting ABG blood samples • Assessing respiratory failure, Pulse oximetry, spirometry • Breath sounds, oximetry, Chest Xray and Acute and chronic respiratory diseases • Asthma, COPD, Chest infection and Pneumonia • Trauma to the thorax assessment and management

Trauma Fundamentals Seminar is organized by ECT4Health and will be held from Apr 30 - May 01, 2020 at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 12 CPD Points. Description: Professional growth for nurses across Australia is essential if you want your staff to provide the highest standard of care to patients. While there are many areas of medicine nurses need to be up to date on, the treatment of trauma injuries is one of the most fluid and changing departments of a hospital. With constant updates in treatment procedures, diagnostics and understanding, enrolling your nursing team into one of our trauma courses or seminars is an important step in ensuring patient care is kept at the highest possible standard. Available across Australia our trauma courses and seminars are a great way to keep the knowledge in your hospital at the cutting edge of medical theory. The ECT4Health Trauma Fundamentals Seminar is a two-day course with a comprehensive coverage of physiology, assessment and management of the patient presenting with trauma. This program is designed for Emergency Department nurses or those in rural, remote or acute care facilities who may be involved in the assessment and management of traumatic injuries. The content starts with basic cellular overview, oxygen delivery to tissue, nursing assessment, epidemiology of trauma in Australia, shock, burns and trauma to different systems. Differences in the physiology of special populations e.g. children, elderly and pregnant women with be discussed in the context of severe injury and shock. At the completion of this seminar, nurses will have an updated approach to assessment, fluid resuscitation and shock management. Whilst the program is basic in its content and will not replace robust study, it serves as an outstanding introduction for the nurse new to emergency, trauma care and rural/remote nursing. Note: This program is theoretical. There are no practical workshops associated with this seminar. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.