Health

Chronic Condition Management

When
Available any time

Mode of delivery
Online

Duration
Self-paced

$1,100

Please note: the current hosting platform to the online Flinders Chronic Condition Management Program is currently being transitioned and new registrations will be available shortly.

In the absence of the online training program, Accredited Trainer Sandy Hamilton, is facilitating future training sessions.

The next training is scheduled for May 6th, 8th, 13th and 15th, 2025 (3 hours per day online via Teams).

If interested, please email: ccm@flinders.edu.au.

Who should attend?

The Chronic Condition Management Program introduces tools and processes to assist in supporting self-management and patient collaboration in care planning.

This short course is designed and relevant for allied health practitioners, aged care workers, nurses, GPs and Aboriginal health practitioners.

What you will study

This short course introduces the structured process and set of tools underpinning the Flinders Program approach to self-management support and collaborative care planning. The program includes supervised practice of self-management assessment and care planning.

Assessment

In order to receive a Certificate of Completion, participants must complete the Flinders Program training, including care planning activities, and submit the signed individual Trainee Undertaking and Personal Licence for Use of the Flinders Program. These entitle the participant to use the Flinders Program tools as part of their individual clinical practice.

Learning outcomes

Participants should complete this program with the following capabilities including be able to:
Demonstrate understanding of the concepts and principles of the Flinders Chronic Condition Management Program
Identify the principles and processes of Motivational Interviewing
Identify first steps to implement chronic condition management with self-management support
Using this knowledge, participants should have the capacity to:
Assess a client’s self-management capacity using the Partners in Health Scale and the Cue and Response interview
Work with a client to identify a significant problem and link mid- to long-term goals using the Problems and Goals Assessment
Assist a client to problem solve
Use behaviour change counselling skills to maintain a client centred focus throughout the interview
Develop an evidence-based behavioural care plan to improve and support self-management of the client’s chronic condition(s).

Credit

CPD and Credits Attendance at this short course, where relevant to your clinical role, can be used as self-reported evidence of meeting CPD requirements of up to 16 hours.

This workshop has been endorsed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners QI&CPD as a Category 1 activity (the equivalent of 40 points) and also by Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine as a PRPD activity (to the equivalent of 30 points).

Program facilitator

This short course is delivered by members of the Education and Training team. Areas of expertise include psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and social work.