This workshop features a combination of valuable hands-on endoscopic experience and didactic sessions. Components of the workshop will provide nurses with an understanding of difficulties encountered in endoscopic procedures. It gives nurses the opportunity to understand the challenges of endoscopic procedures from an endoscopist’s perspective and the role of the assisting nurse in critical situations. By the end of the workshop, nurses will have deepened their understanding and skills in the following:
Workshop Content
Afternoon Session
12.30pm to 4.30pm (Lunch included from 12.30pm to 1.00pm)
Practical Sessions:
- Upper and lower GI tract anatomy and physiology
- Scopes from the doctor’s perspective
- Endoscopic troubleshooting
- Handling scopes in models
- VR Endoscopy Simulator
- Foreign body retrieval
- Cold snaring polypectomy
Presentations:
- The role of Endoscopy Nurses
- Role of the Endoscopist and expectations of the assisting nurse in critical situations
- Endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic modalities
- Polyps, clipping, EMR, cold snaring and sclerotherapy
Training Grants
This workshop is generously subsidised by Cancer Network Western Australia. Please note a $25 non-refundable fee is required during the registration process to secure a place on the workshop.
Endoscopy Nurses may claim 3 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.
This educational activity will earn participants a Certificate of Completion for their CPD Portfolio.
WA Endoscopy Nurses: $25
Registrations for this workshop are essential and the $25 fee is non-refundable in the event of a cancellation. Registrants who find it necessary to cancel are encouraged to organise a replacement registrant to take their place.
Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.
Entrance No. 2 Hackett Drive
Crawley 6009
Perth Western Australia
