•
1 1

HealthCert Education

Obesity and it's management (Nurse)

Obesity and it's management (Nurse)

Enhance your nursing skills with our comprehensive course on managing comorbidities in overweight and obese patients. Learn the critical role nurses play in prevention, screening, evaluation, treatment, and ongoing monitoring. The course covers sustained behavioural change through patient-doctor collaboration, guides for assessing change motivation, and structuring lifestyle counselling. Explore the four pillars of management: patient education, lifestyle modifications, medication, and weight loss surgery. Understand the pharmacodynamics and monitoring of TGA-approved medications and the effectiveness of bariatric surgery. This evidence-based, regularly updated course is essential for providing holistic care and advocating for patient health in managing obesity.

time-icon 6.0 hours
$199.00
$199.00
Sale Sold out
View full details

  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

Course Content:

This course discusses the role nurses play in the primary prevention, screening, evaluation, treatment and ongoing monitoring of comorbidities in overweight and obese patients. Sustained behavioural change for these patients is predicated on a long-term, collaborative relationship between patient and doctor. Guides are included for eliciting the patient's level of change-motivation and offers a framework for structuring lifestyle counselling consultations.

The course identifies four pillars of management: patient education and health literacy, lifestyle modifications, medication and weight loss surgery. As a first-line therapy, education and lifestyle interventions including physical activity and diet form the foundation for change. Beyond these interventions, the adjunctive role of medications is also discussed. The pharmacodynamic effects, administration and monitoring of three TGA-approved medications are considered.

Bariatric surgery, the primary mechanism, the effectiveness and indications are also outlined. The course discusses the drivers of obesity and the nurses’s role in primary prevention through education and advocation.

This course is evidence-based, demonstrates best practice and is regularly updated.

Relevance to Nurses:

As 56.7% of Australian general practice consultations are with women, the gender-specific primary health needs of women constitute a significant proportion of the general practice workload. (1)

The area of women’s health is broad and across the lifespan requires general practitioners (GPs) to develop and maintain skills in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy care and mental health, and in the recognition and provision of support to women who are victims of abuse and violence. (1)

A longitudinal study by an Australian university identified key health concerns for women related to the national and state strategies and confirmed the need for women’s health services. (2)
_________________________
(1). WH16 – Women’s health contextual unit (RACGP) https://www.racgp.org.au/education/educationproviders/curriculum/2016-curriculum/contextual-units/populations/wh16-women%E2%80%99s-health
(2). Australian longitudinal study on Women’s Health http://www.alswh.org.au/

  1. Assess the prevalence of obesity in the female population in Australia, as well as the negative impact on the health and wellbeing of patients.
  2. Apply best practice principles in formulating a management plan with the obese patient which includes lifestyle measures and potential medical and surgical approaches.

All nurses.

cpd hours image

CPD Hours:

  • 6.0 hours CPD Activity
cpd hours image

Accreditations:

Nurse endorsements pending.

cpd hours image

Study Mode:

100% online

cpd hours image

Study duration:

6.0 hrs self-paced

cpd hours image

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dr Sharon Sykes

This course is presented by Dr Sharon Sykes. Dr Sykes works in private general practice in Port Macquarie, Australia where she is also a supervisor of GP registrars and of medical students. Dr Sykes served 18 years in the Royal Australian Air Force before becoming a general practitioner. She has a special interest in medical education and has
previously worked as a medical educator for North Coast GP Training.

Dr Sykes holds a MBBS, Bachelor of Applied Science (Med Lab Sci) and a Fellowship of the RACGP.

What your colleagues say

  • "HealthCert courses have become the standard by which you gauge all others."

    - Dr K. Abolarinwa

    MBBS

  • "This is the pathway to improve your confidence and evolve into the GP you aspire to be"

    - Dr S. Shinwari

    Trainee

  • "HealthCert courses have become the standard by which you gauge all others."

    - Dr K. Abolarinwa

    MBBS

  • "This is the pathway to improve your confidence and evolve into the GP you aspire to be"

    -Dr A. Tucker

    Trainee