CPPD: Study days
Study days are short courses of between one and three days, offering a time-efficient way to increase your skills and gain insight into specialist areas. Our study days are interprofessional and allow you to focus on the subjects most relevant to your own area of practice.
A-Z list of study days
- Abdominal masterclass
- Academic practice (previously known as Study skills)
- Access to acute/first line care for people with a learning disability
- Access to primary care for people with a learning disability
- AHPs – an introduction to mentorship - 3 days
- An introduction to consent, legal frameworks and ‘best interest’
- An introduction to epilepsy
- Asthma update

- Audit and quality - national service frameworks
- Autism and autistic spectrum disorders - an introduction
- Cancer survival
- Cardiovascular disease update

- Child immunisation – two day foundation
- Child immunisation – update
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) update

- Clinical audit and quality assurance
- Clinical supervision for supervisors
- Coaching for team leaders
- Cognitive behaviour therapy for personality disorder
- Cognitive behaviour therapy to promote healthy lifestyles

- Communicating with people with a learning disability
- Communication difficulties following a stroke
- Complex critical thinking

- Conflict transformation
- Crime and abuse against people with a learning disability - key concepts
- Critical appraisal of literature skills
- Critical care of people following an initial stroke
- Customer care and customer satisfaction
- Dementia and people with learning disabilities - preparing for change
- Developing leadership skills – programme for band 5 nurses
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Diabetes management in secondary care
- Diabetes update

- Dual diagnosis workshop
- Ear care
- End of life care for people with a learning disability
- Enhanced dementia awareness
- Gynaecology masterclass
- Injection training course for healthcare assistants
- Introduction to cardiac monitoring
- Introduction to cervical screening
- IV drug administration
- IV drug administration (community)
- Key issues in physical health assessment of people with a learning disability
- Loss and bereavement
- Management of pain in older people
- Managing change: a practical approach
- Mastering academic practice
- Maternal and child health update
- Mental health – issues for people with a learning disability
- Motivational interviewing
- Non-invasive ventilation
- Nutrition and swallowing in stroke patients
- Palliative care for generalist nurses
- Prescribing update
- Prevention of pressure ulcers
- Principles of tissue transfer 1 (skin grafts)
- Principles of tissue transfer 2 (flaps)
- Rehabilitation and continence promotion
- Schizophrenia and people with a learning disability
- School nurse immunisation update
- Self-harm
- Short course in leg ulcer management – three days
- Stroke – five study days
- Stroke pathway policy and discharge planning
- Team leadership and service improvement
- The acutely unwell adult

- Time management
- Tracheostomy study day
- Travel health - two day foundation
- Travel health - update
- Understanding the ageing process for people with a learning disability
- Using cognitive behavioural therapy with people who have a learning disability
- Using the stress vulnerability model in clinical practice
- Venepuncture and cannulation
- Venepuncture online package and practical workshop
- Vulnerable adults
- Working with difficult people
- Working with families, carers and significant others
- Working with parents who have a learning disability
- Working with people who have a learning disability and who may be depressed
- Working with vulnerable adults key issues – safeguarding, reasonable adjustment, capacity and consent to treatment
- Wound management
Fees
The fee for study days is £125 per day.
Questions?
- Please contact our CPD Programme Office who will be happy to help you with any queries.
- If you don't see a study day that meets your needs, please ask us about our bespoke training and education solutions.


