Understanding Blood Results - 2 day course

Early recognition of abnormalities can avert potential life threatening or at least harmful situations.

This well established and respected two day course allows the candidate a chance to fully understand routine haematology and biochemistry results.

Attended by nurses and allied health professionals whose work involves blood investigation.

Content

• Full Blood Count; parameters of the full blood count

• Haemoglobin and erythrocyte physiology; ESR, INR

• Clinical examples workshop

• Patterns in anaemia

• Differential White Cell Count

• Clinical Biochemistry

• Clinical electrolyte and water homeostasis

• Hypo and hypernatraemia

• Potassium homeostasis

• Liver function tests

• Thyroid function tests

• Clinical case studies

Aims and outcomes

To understand -

• Routine full blood count results

• Clinical physiology of the haematological system

• Routine biochemistry tests and electrolyte and water homeostasis

• Physiology of liver and cardiac enzymes

• Clinical implications of results

Cost

£299

How to apply for funding and apply for this course

Please complete the MS Form available at the following link: HWE Training Hub Funding Request Form (office.com)

The Training Hub will review and approve the course funding - however, it is your responsibility to book your place on the course you wish to attend. We will review and respond to applications in order of the course date (soonest courses first) and date received. If you have any questions, please contact us at hwetraininghub@nhs.net.

Once the Training Hub has approved your funding request, we will contact you with instructions on how to book your place on the course. When you have booked, please send us your booking confirmation to complete the process. Your booking confirmation must be received by the Training Hub within 1 week of your funding approval. If your booking confirmation is not received within a week of your request for funding being approved, your approval will no longer be valid and you will need to complete a new funding request form, via the MS Forms link. We will notify you if we have withdrawn your funding request.

(The short timeline is due to courses frequently becoming unavailable due to popularity.)

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