Working with local trainers, The Cornwall Training Hub is excited to bring you this nationally recognised course.
Delivered virtually, Sexual and Reproductive Health Essentials for Practice Nurses is a one-day, interactive course for nurses working in primary care and other community settings. If you would like to build your knowledge and skills in sexual and reproductive healthcare, this course is for you.
At the end of the day you will be able to:
- Perform a pregnancy risk assessment
- Introduce contraception and sexual health into consultations, even when your patient isn’t expecting it
- Appraise risks, side effects and benefits of contraceptive methods
- Demonstrate how to reissue the COC, POP, injection
- Perform a sexual health risk assessment and decide which STI tests to offer your patients
- Discuss all methods of Emergency Contraception and can offer/refer for the appropriate method
The course is designed by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive health and can only be run by registered facilitators. Once you have completed the course, you will receive a certificate which is a nationally recognised qualification.
Course materials and resources will be emailed to delegates 1 week before the course start date. Upon booking, your email will be passed onto the trainer.
The training day is being delivered virtually using Zoom. Cornwall Training Hub take no responsibility for any potential interruptions to the Zoom delivery.
This course is for staff working within primary care in Cornwall. If you do not work in primary care in Cornwall and are interested in this course, please email kernowhealthcic.workforce@nhs.net. We reserve the right to cancel any ineligible bookings.
Course Cost and Cancellation
This course is funded if your Practice subscribes to the Primary Care Education Programme. The cost of the course for NON Education Programme Members is £180 (including VAT).
Places cancelled less than 2 weeks prior to the course start, or failure to take up the place on the day of the course, will incur a charge of £125 (plus VAT if applicable). This applies to both members and non-members of the Primary Care Education Programme.