Pre-Conference Workshops
On Friday 11 March 2022, PSA are running a full day of workshops at Rydges Newcastle the day before the NSW ATU22.
These workshops are optional and the cost of attending the full day of workshops is in addition to the cost of your conference registration. Full catering is included.
You can register for these workshops along with your ATU22 registration.
Morning: Clinical Assessment Workshop
As the role of the pharmacist expands, so too does the need for in-depth consultations with patients. By conducting in-depth consultations, pharmacists can gain further information required to give tailored medication management advice. Whether in a pharmacy, a GP practice or in the patient’s home, these consultations may require clinical examinations and simple procedures to be conducted. This interactive workshop will help you develop the skills required to conduct a clinical assessment, and will cover the general approaches to be observed before any clinical examination or procedure, processes to follow and documentation requirements.
Morning: Clinical Assessment Workshop
As the role of the pharmacist expands, so too does the need for in-depth consultations with patients. By conducting in-depth consultations, pharmacists can gain further information required to give tailored medication management advice. Whether in a pharmacy, a GP practice or in the patient’s home, these consultations may require clinical examinations and simple procedures to be conducted. This interactive workshop will help you develop the skills required to conduct a clinical assessment, and will cover the general approaches to be observed before any clinical examination or procedure, processes to follow and documentation requirements.
Afternoon: Wound Care Workshop
Session 1: Simple lacerations, burns and grazes
Pharmacies are often the first point-of-call for people seeking dressings or first aid for minor skin wounds. There are many available dressing and techniques for managing minor skin wounds. This workshop will help you assess minor wounds to determine whether there is a risk of infection, deeper structural damage or other factors that can impair wound healing. This workshop will also cover choosing the right dressing type to aid wound healing and reduce the risk of complications.
Session 2: Chronic wounds: pressure sores and ulcers
The prevalence of chronic wounds including pressure sores and leg ulcers in the community is high. Many people have leg ulcers that do not heal. While under the care of another health professional, these patients are likely to visit pharmacies for advice on dressings or to seek other health care. This interactive workshop will help you to support patients to choose correct dressings, manage their own dressings and avoid further chronic wounds. You’ll also learn about medicines that can contribute to chronic wounds, ways to identify and prevent chronic wounds in their early stages and signs a patient might need urgent referral.
PSA Immunisation Training
PSA immunisation training is intended to provide registered pharmacists, who meet the pre-requisite requirements, with the knowledge and skills to establish and deliver a successful immunisation service, including administration of injections.
A practical immunisation workshop (Part 2) of the blended training program, will be held on Friday 11 March 2022 as a pre-conference Workshop at Rydges Newcastle.
Click here to find out more about PSA's Immunisation Program
To register for this training click here (you will be diverted to the PSA website to enrol).