Heart failure training courses for clinicians
Managing Heart Failure: From Hospital to Home Course
Location: The Princess Alexandra Hospital
Date: Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd May 2025
Time: 8.30 - 3.00 pm
Registrations open early 2025
The course aims to help professionals:
- Understand the pathophysiology heart failure (HF), diagnostic methods, and medical treatment
- Gain in-depth knowledge of medication management
- Support patients to control symptoms and improve quality of life through diet, exercise, energy conservation, quality sleep and palliation
- Address social and emotional challenges such as intimacy, depression, and activities of daily living
- Understand the role of implantable cardiac devices for heart failure in managing arrhythmias and remote monitoring of pulmonary congestion
Course Costs per person:
Mode | Registration | QLD Health* | Non-QLD Health |
In person (parking included) | 2 days | $195 | $390 |
1 day | $100 | $200 | |
Webinar | 2 days | $100 | $200 |
1 day | $60 | $120 |
In person attendance includes morning tea and lunch
*Free for QLD Heart Failure Support Services staff. NB - A unique discount code is applied to your QLD Health email (only applies for staff registered with Statewide Heart Failure Services)
Speakers:
Sessions are delivered by medical, nursing and allied health clinicians with heart failure expertise.
Participants: Suitable for all professionals who care for people with cardiac or chronic conditions who wish to have a better technical understanding of heart failure and approaches to treatment. Relevant for GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers and psychologists.
Enquiries - please phone 3139 6910 or email qldheartfailure@health.qld.gov.au