Course information
About the course
PLEASE NOTE: This simulation course has been funded by HEE and is only available to community pharmacists, general practitioners, and nurses working in primary care. If you do not fit this criteria your ticket will not be valid.
A free 1-day, high-fidelity, immersive simulation based training course focusing on promoting mental health and well-being in patients. Designed for those in the front line of primary care and community pharmacy. Become confident and skilled in recognising mental distress and promoting well-being to reduce the risk of individuals developing mental illness.
Areas covered include:
• sleep difficulties
• deliberate self- harm
• heightened emotions
• eating issues
• amotivation to address health
• work related stress
• substance use
• anxiety about health
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Learning Objectives
The participants attending the course will:
- Experience increased confidence in recognising and exploring various signs of reduced well-being and mental health needs
- Understand further how reduced well-being inter plays with the early onset of a number of mental health issues, and on which levels intervention can occur
- Experience increased confidence and confidence to support people to improve well-being, including knowledge of where to signpost people for further mental well-being support
- Learn how to consider the systems around a patient in more depth, and how to harness these positively if possible
- Understand cultural differences in mental health illness, and well-being